2 papers
astro-ph.SR2026
Dimming and pulsation shock of the coalesced star V838 Monocerotis
T. KamiÅski, C. E. Woodward, T. Liimets +3
V838 Mon is the remnant of a stellar merger that occurred in 2002. Twenty-four years after the merger, the remnant closely resembles a red supergiant, but its luminosity is sustain…
astro-ph.SR2025
Simulating Chemical Abundances in the Circumstellar Nebula of the Late Stage Binary RY Scuti
Sarah H. Taft, Robert D. Gehrz, Charles E. Woodward +3
RY Scuti, thought to be a Wolf-Rayet (WR) progenitor, is a massive, post-main-sequence, binary star system undergoing Roche lobe overflow (RLOF). SOFIA (+FORCAST) spectroscopy of t…