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

37 citations · 161 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.gen-ph2026

Multiplicity of Massive Stars at Low Metallicity: Early Results from the BLOeM Campaign

T. Shenar, J. Bodensteiner, M. Abdul-Masih +73

Massive stars at low metallicity (Z) play a central role in shaping the high-redshift Universe, yet their multiplicity remains poorly constrained. The Binarity at Low Metallicity (…

astro-ph.SR2026

OB runaway stars originating in the Vel OB1 association

N. Azatyan, L. Kaper, A. Samsonyan +4

OB runaway stars are massive stars moving through interstellar space at high velocities (up to 200 km/s), produced by dynamical ejections in young massive clusters or supernova exp…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 5 cited

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): Projected rotational velocities

D. J. Lennon, S. R. Berlanas, A. Herrero +36

The Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM) survey is an ESO large programme designed to obtain multi-epoch spectroscopy for 929 massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). It w…

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.SR2025★ 2 cited

The origin of the most recently ejected OB runaway star from the R136 cluster

Simon Portegies Zwart, Michel Stoop, Lex Kaper +3

The solar-mass (\MSun) star-cluster R136 (NGC~2070) in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is the host of at least 55 massive stars ($M \apgt 10$\,\MS…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): Bayesian inference of natal kicks from inert black hole binaries

R. Willcox, P. Marchant, A. Vigna-Gómez +15

Context. The emerging population of inert black hole binaries (BHBs) provides a unique opportunity to constrain black hole (BH) formation physics. These systems are composed of a s…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 14 cited

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): The multiplicity properties and evolution of BAF-type supergiants

L. R. Patrick, D. J. Lennon, F. Najarro +36

Given the uncertain evolutionary status of blue supergiant stars, their multiplicity properties hold vital clues to better understand their origin and evolution. As part of The Bin…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 17 cited

Binarity at Low Metallicity (BLOeM) -- Multiplicity properties of Oe and Be stars

J. Bodensteiner, T. Shenar, H. Sana +40

Rapidly rotating classical OBe stars have been proposed as the products of binary interactions, and the fraction of Be stars with compact companions implies that at least some are.…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 20 cited

Two waves of massive stars running away from the young cluster R136

Mitchel Stoop, Alex de Koter, Lex Kaper +10

Massive stars are predominantly born in stellar associations or clusters. Their radiation fields, stellar winds, and supernovae strongly impact their local environment. In the firs…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

The spectroscopic binary fraction of the young stellar cluster M17

M. C. Ramírez-Tannus, A. R. Derkink, F. Backs +5

Significant progress has been made toward understanding the formation of massive (M) binaries in close orbits. For example, the detection of a very low velocity d…

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…

astro-ph.GA2023

The early evolution of young massive clusters. II. The kinematic history of NGC 6618 / M 17

Mitchel Stoop, Annelotte Derkink, Lex Kaper +5

The fraction of massive stars in young stellar clusters is of importance as they are the dominant sources of both mechanical and radiative feedback, strongly influencing the therma…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

Bringing Stellar Evolution & Feedback Together: Summary of proposals from the Lorentz Center Workshop, 2022

Sam Geen, Poojan Agrawal, Paul A. Crowther +34

Stars strongly impact their environment, and shape structures on all scales throughout the universe, in a process known as ``feedback''. Due to the complexity of both stellar evolu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 22 cited

The early evolution of young massive clusters: The kinematic history of NGC6611 / M16

Mitchel Stoop, Lex Kaper, Alex de Koter +3

In the first few Myr the massive stars dynamically interact, produce runaways and affect the initial binary population. Observing and interpreting the dynamics of young massive clu…