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20222026
most citedRevisiting the evolved hypergiants in the Magellanic Clouds

15 citations · 23 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Central stars of newly discovered infrared nebulae: eruptive Be stars PY Gem and HD253659

Olga Maryeva, Julieta Sánchez Arias, Sergey Karpov +3

The presence of a nebula around massive hot stars often works as an indicator that the object is either in an advanced evolutionary stage or a rare product of close binary interact…

astro-ph.SR2025

Near-infrared characterization of evolved massive stars in M31 and M33

Michaela Kraus, Maria Laura Arias, Michalis Kourniotis +3

The upper region of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is populated by massive stars in a diversity of evolutionary stages, and the classification of these stars is often based on obs…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Variability of Galactic blue supergiants observed with TESS

Michalis Kourniotis, Lydia S. Cidale, Michaela Kraus +2

Blue supergiants (BSGs) mediate between the main sequence and the late stages of massive stars, which makes them valuable for assessing the physics that drives the stars across the…

astro-ph.SR2025

HD 144812: A transition-phase massive star in a binary system

Michalis Kourniotis, Michaela Kraus, Maria Laura Arias +1

In this Letter, we shed light on the evolutionary phase of HD 144812, a Galactic yellow supergiant showing infrared excess that is typically expected for evolved stars undergoing e…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 7 cited

Dense Molecular Environments of B[e] Supergiants and Yellow Hypergiants

Michaela Kraus, Michalis Kourniotis, Maria Laura Arias +2

Massive stars expel large amounts of mass during their late evolutionary phases. We aim to unveil the physical conditions within the warm molecular environments of B[e] supergiants…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 15 cited

Revisiting the evolved hypergiants in the Magellanic Clouds

Michalis Kourniotis, Michaela Kraus, Olga Maryeva +2

The massive stars that survive the phase of red supergiants (RSGs) spend the rest of their life in extremity. Their unstable atmospheres facilitate the formation and episodic eject…