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Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry with Polstar: Massive Star Binary Colliding Winds
Nicole St-Louis, Kenneth Gayley, Desmond John Hillier +13
As sources of chemical enrichment, ionizing radiation and energetic feedback, massive stars drive the ecology of their host galaxies despite their relative rarity, additionally to…
Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry:Conservative and Nonconservative Mass Transfer in OB Interacting Binaries
Geraldine J. Peters, Ken Gayley, Richard Ignace +11
One objective of the Polstar spectropolarimetry mission is to characterize the degree of nonconservative mass transfer that occurs at various stages of binary evolution, from the i…
Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry: on the origin of rapidly rotating B stars
C. E. Jones, J. Labadie-Bartz, D. V. Cotton +12
UV spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry hold the key to understanding certain aspects of massive stars that are largely inaccessible with optical or longer wavelength observations.…
Five years of BRITE-Constellation photometry of the luminous blue variable P Cygni: properties of the stochastic low-frequency variability
Ashley Elliott, Noel D. Richardson, Herbert Pablo +9
Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs) are massive stars that are likely to be a transitionary phase between O stars and hydrogen-free classical Wolf-Rayet stars. The variability of these…
Outbursts and stellar properties of the classical Be star HD 6226
Noel D. Richardson, Olivier Thizy, Jon E. Bjorkman +58
The bright and understudied classical Be star HD 6226 has exhibited multiple outbursts in the last several years during which the star grew a viscous decretion disk. We analyze 659…
Spectroscopic Signatures of the Vanishing Natural Coronagraph of eta Carinae
A. Damineli, F. Navarete, D. J. Hillier +7
Eta Carinae is a massive interacting binary system shrouded in a complex circumstellar environment whose evolution is the source of the long-term brightening observed during the la…