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astro-ph.HE2026

EWOCS VII : Unveiling the faint diffuse X-ray emission in Westerlund 1

Albacete-Colombo J. F., Andersen M., De Becker M. +16

Westerlund 1 (Wd 1) is the closest supermassive star cluster to the Sun, with over 100,000 stars of all spectral types down to brown dwarfs. This population strongly heats the surr…

astro-ph.SR2026

Evolution of wide O star binaries through their LBV stage. Population synthesis with mass-ejection-driven orbital evolution

Xiao-Tian Xu, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Norbert Langer +6

Context. Long-period Wolf-Rayet (WR) star binaries produced by mass transfer are predicted to be abundant, but are observationally rare. This yields constraints on the evolution of…

astro-ph.SR2026

EWOCS-V: Is Wd1-72 a recent post-interaction WR+O binary?

C. J. K. Larkin, J. Mackey, H. Jin +14

The evolutionary origin of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars at Solar metallicity is unclear. Single-star evolution from massive O stars, possibly via a Luminous Blue Variable phase, is challe…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Mass loading of outflows from evolving Young Massive Clusters

C. J. K. Larkin, C. Hawcroft, J. Mackey +3

Feedback from Young Massive Clusters (YMCs) is an important driver of galaxy evolution. In the first few Myr, mechanical feedback is dominated by collective effects of the massive…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 22 cited

A high fraction of close massive binary stars at low metallicity

H. Sana, T. Shenar, J. Bodensteiner +74

At high metallicity, a majority of massive stars have at least one close stellar companion. The evolution of such binaries is subject to strong interaction processes, heavily impac…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

EWOCS-IV: 1Ms ACIS Chandra observation of the supergiant B[e] star Wd1-9

K. Anastasopoulou, M. G. Guarcello, J. J. Drake +21

Supergiant B[e] (sgB[e]) stars are exceptionally rare objects, with only a handful of confirmed examples in the Milky Way. The evolutionary pathways leading to the sgB[e] phase rem…

astro-ph.SR2025

Carbon-rich dust injected into the interstellar medium by Galactic WC binaries survives for hundreds of years

Noel D. Richardson, Micaela Henson, Emma P. Lieb +23

Some carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet stars (WC stars) show an infrared excess from dust emission. Dust forms in the collision of the WC wind with a companion star's wind. As this dust is ca…

astro-ph.SR2024

Visual Orbits of Wolf-Rayet Stars II: The Orbit of the Nitrogen-Rich WR Binary WR 138 measured with the CHARA Array

Amanda Holdsworth, Noel Richardson, Gail H. Schaefer +19

Classical Wolf-Rayet stars are descendants of massive OB-type stars that have lost their hydrogen-rich envelopes, and are in the final stages of stellar evolution, possibly explodi…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 37 cited

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): a spectroscopic VLT monitoring survey of massive stars in the SMC

T. Shenar, J. Bodensteiner, H. Sana +74

Surveys in the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud revealed that the majority of massive stars will interact with companions during their lives. However, knowledge of the binary p…