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most citedModeling contact binaries, III. Properties of a population of close, massive binaries

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astro-ph.GA2026

JWST reveals a highly ionized nebula powered by an ultraluminous X-ray source with a massive black hole in the metal-poor galaxy Holmberg II

F. A. Fogantini, P. Zeidler, L. M. Oskinova +9

Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed fine-structure lines of ions with ionization potentials \,eV, such as [Ne\,{\sc v}] and [O\,{\sc iv…

astro-ph.SR2026

Evidence for the emergence of stellar magnetic fields during rapid mass transfer

Gregg A. Wade, Tomer Shenar, Pablo Marchant +6

Binary interaction fundamentally alters the evolution of massive stars, yet the physical consequences of mass transfer remain poorly constrained. Here we present high-resolution sp…

astro-ph.SR2026

Mergers via failed common envelope as a route towards intermediate-mass stripped stars

Annachiara Picco, Pablo Marchant, Daniel Pauli +1

Stripped stars are a common product of binary stellar systems and span a wide mass range from Wolf-Rayet stars to hot subdwarfs and helium white dwarfs. The recent discovery of int…

astro-ph.SR2025

Good things always come in 3s: trimodality in the binary black-hole chirp-mass distribution supports bimodal black-hole formation

Reinhold Willcox, Fabian R. N. Schneider, Eva Laplace +7

The latest GWTC-4 release from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration nearly doubles the known population of double compact object mergers and reveals a new trimodal structure in…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 11 cited

Modeling contact binaries, III. Properties of a population of close, massive binaries

Matthias Fabry, Pablo Marchant, Norbert Langer +1

Among massive stars, binary interaction is the rule rather than the exception. The closest binaries, those with periods of less than about 10 days, undergo mass transfer during cor…

astro-ph.SR2024

X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive Stars at Low Metallicity

Jorick S. Vink, Paul Crowther, Alex Fullerton +20

The Hubble Space Telescope has devoted 500 orbits to observing 250 massive stars with low metallicity in the ultraviolet (UV) range within the framework of the ULLYSES program. The…