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most citedThe Effective Temperature Scale of Galactic Red Supergiants: Cool, But Not As Cool As We Thought

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astro-ph.GA2026

Automated Computer Vision Cluster Identification in the Fireworks Galaxy

Debby Tran, Benjamin F. Williams, Emily M. Levesque +5

We present the integrated photometry, radii, and spatial distribution of young ( 25 Myr) star cluster candidates in NGC 6946. NGC 6946, also known as the Fireworks Galaxy, is…

astro-ph.SR2023

Physical Properties of 5,000 Cool LMC Supergiants with Gaia XP Spectra: A Detailed Portrait of the Upper HR Diagram Hints at Missing Supernova Progenitors

Trevor Z. Dorn-Wallenstein, Kathryn F. Neugent, Emily M. Levesque

Characterizing the physical properties of cool supergiants allows us to probe the final stages of a massive star's evolution before it undergoes core collapse. Despite their import…

astro-ph.GA2023

Spatially-Resolved Recent Star Formation History in NGC 6946

Debby Tran, Benjamin Williams, Emily Levesque +6

The nearby face-on star forming spiral galaxy NGC 6946 is known as the Fireworks Galaxy due to its hosting an unusually large number of supernova. We analyze its resolved near-ultr…

astro-ph.SR2022

The Properties of Fast Yellow Pulsating Supergiants: FYPS Point the Way to Missing Red Supergiants

Trevor Z. Dorn-Wallenstein, Emily M. Levesque, James R. A. Davenport +3

Fast yellow pulsating supergiants (FYPS) are a recently-discovered class of evolved massive pulsator. As candidate post-red supergiant objects, and one of the few classes of pulsat…

astro-ph.SR2021

Locating Red Supergiants in the Galaxy NGC 6822

Tzvetelina A. Dimitrova, Kathryn F. Neugent, Philip Massey +1

Using archival near-IR photometry, we identify 51 of the K-band brightest red supergiants (RSGs) in NGC 6822 and compare their physical properties with stellar evolutionary model p…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 1 cited

Testing Evolutionary Models with Red Supergiant and Wolf-Rayet Populations

Philip Massey, Kathryn F. Neugent, Trevor Z. Dorn-Wallenstein +3

Despite the many successes that modern massive star evolutionary theory has enjoyed, reproducing the apparent trend in the relative number of red supergiants (RSGs) and Wolf-Rayet…