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most citedThe VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XVII. Physical and wind properties of massive stars at the top of the main sequence

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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.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.SR2022★ 119 cited

The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS. III. The most massive stars and their clumped winds

Sarah A. Brands, Alex de Koter, Joachim M. Bestenlehner +17

Context: The star cluster R136 inside the LMC hosts a rich population of massive stars, including the most massive stars known. The strong stellar winds of these very luminous star…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 59 cited

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XXVI: Properties of the O-dwarf population in 30 Doradus

C. Sabín-Sanjulián, S. Simón-Díaz, A. Herrero +21

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey has observed hundreds of O-type stars in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We study the properties of 105 apparently single…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 69 cited

Two bi-stability jumps in theoretical wind models for massive stars and the implications for Luminous Blue Variable supernovae

Blagovest Petrov, Jorick S. Vink, Götz Gräfener

Luminous Blue Variables have been suggested to be the direct progenitors of supernova types IIb and IIn, with enhanced mass loss prior to explosion. However, the mechanism of this…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 89 cited

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XXI. Stellar spin rates of O-type spectroscopic binaries

O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo, H. Sana, S. E. de Mink +9

The initial distribution of spin rates of massive stars is a fingerprint of their elusive formation process. It also sets a key initial condition for stellar evolution and is thus…