4 papers
The IACOB project XIX. Revisiting massive-star evolution with empirical TAMS constraints: updated models, overshoot calibration, and the population of blue supergiants
Luca Sciarini, Abel de Burgos, Sophie Rosu +3
Massive stars play a fundamental role in the evolution of the Universe. Yet, several physical processes governing their evolution remain poorly constrained. Notably, the main-seque…
The Beauty of k2: Probing Stellar Interiors Using Apsidal Motion. I. The Benchmark Massive Binary HD 152248
Sophie Rosu, Luca Sciarini, Sylvia Ekström +4
Over the last decades, several independent studies have shown the need for large convective boundary mixing (CBM) and convective core sizes in massive stars to reproduce a variety…
The impact of rotational mixing in intermediate-age star clusters with extended main-sequence turn-offs and extended red clumps
Lorenzo Martinelli, Andrea Miglio, Gaël Buldgen +6
The extended main-sequence turn-offs (eMSTOs) and extended red clumps (eRCs) observed in intermediate-age star clusters challenge the traditional understanding of clusters as simpl…
The stellar evolution perspective on the metallicity dependence of classical Cepheid Leavitt laws
Saniya Khan, Richard I. Anderson, Sylvia Ekström +2
The impact of metallicity on the Cepheid Leavitt law (LL) and, in turn, the Hubble constant, has been the subject of much recent debate. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis o…