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Evidence for stellar mergers of evolved massive binaries: blue supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Athira Menon, Andrea Ercolino, Miguel A. Urbaneja +8
Blue supergiants are the brightest stars in their host galaxies and yet their evolutionary status has been a long-standing problem in stellar astrophysics. In this pioneering work,…
Betelgeuse as a Merger of a Massive Star with a Companion
Sagiv Shiber, Emmanouil Chatzopoulos, Bradley Munson +1
We investigate the merger between a 16 solar mass star, on its way to becoming a red supergiant (RSG), and a 4 solar mass main-sequence companion. Our study employs three-dimension…
The Role of the Magnetorotational Instability in Massive Stars
J. Craig Wheeler, Daniel Kagan, Emmanouil Chatzopoulos
The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is key physics in accretion disks and is widely considered to play some role in massive-star core collapse. Models of rotating massive stars…