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20242026
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9 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Bolometric correction for cosmologically redshifted stars with dust: an update to the YBC database

Yang Chen, Xiaoting Fu, Léo Girardi +2

Observations from HST & JWST continue to reveal gravitationally magnified high-redshift star candidates, resulting in increasing demand for accurate stellar bolometric corrections…

astro-ph.IM2026

Studying hot evolved stars with ultraviolet spectroscopy

Stephan Geier, Nicole Reindl, Matti Dorsch +7

Hot evolved stars are key objects to reconstruct the various evolutionary pathways of Sun-like stars, to probe binary interactions and the physics of supernovae. They serve as powe…

astro-ph.SR2026

Dynamically consistent analysis of Galactic WN4b stars

Roel R. Lefever, Andreas A. C. Sander, Matheus Bernini-Peron +6

Many Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars have optically thick winds that cloak the hydrostatic layers of the underlying star. In these cases, traditional spectral analysis methods are plagued by…

astro-ph.SR2025

Discovery of a new transitional type of evolved massive stars with hard ionizing flux

Andreas A. C. Sander, Roel R. Lefever, Joris Josiek +12

Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are the evolved descendants of the most massive stars and show emission-line dominated spectra formed in their powerful stellar winds. Marking the final evolu…

astro-ph.SR2025

First JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy of O Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Armin Mang Román, Peter Zeidler, Wolf-Rainer Hamann +10

Determining how much mass is removed by stellar winds is crucial to understanding massive star evolution and feedback. However, traditional spectroscopic diagnostics in the UV and…

astro-ph.SR2025

X-ray and radio data obtained by XMM-Newton and VLA constrain the stellar wind of the magnetic quasi-Wolf-Rayet star in HD45166

P. Leto, L. M. Oskinova, T. Shenar +9

Recently, a powerful magnetic field was discovered in the hot helium star classified as a quasi-Wolf-Rayet star of ~2Msun, member of the HD45166 system. Upon its explosion as a cor…