9 papers
Ultraviolet spectroscopy reveals a hot and luminous companion to the Be star+black hole candidate MWC 656
Johanna Müller-Horn, Varsha Ramachandran, Kareem El-Badry +11
The Galactic Be star binary MWC 656 was long considered the only known Be star+black hole (BH) system, making it a critical benchmark for models of massive binary evolution and for…
Dynamically consistent analysis of Galactic WN4b stars
Roel R. Lefever, Andreas A. C. Sander, Matheus Bernini-Peron +6
Many Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars have optically thick winds that cloak the hydrostatic layers of the underlying star. In these cases, traditional spectral analysis methods are plagued by…
Can Wolf-Rayet stars be the missing ingredient to explain high-z He II ionizing radiation?
G. González-TorÃ, A. A. C. Sander, E. Egorova +7
Classical Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are hot, massive stars with depleted hydrogen. At low metallicities (Z), WN3-type WR stars have relatively thin winds and are major sources of ioniz…
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…
Near-Eddington mass loss of hydrogen-rich Wolf-Rayet stars
Roel R. Lefever, Andreas A. C. Sander, Matheus Bernini-Peron +6
Context. Very massive clusters and regions of intense star formation such as the center of our Milky Way contain young, hydrogen-burning stars very close to the Eddington Limit. Fo…
Exploring the connection between atmosphere models and evolution models of very massive stars
Joris Josiek, Andreas A. C. Sander, Matheus Bernini-Peron +6
Very massive stars (VMS) dominate the light of young stellar populations and are sources of intense stellar feedback. Their evolution is mainly driven by strong wind mass loss, yet…