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Addressing Outstanding Problems in the Physics of Massive Stars with the Line Emission Mapper X-ray Probe
Jeremy J. Drake, David Cohen, Michael Corcoran +5
We present some of the salient aspects of the scientific motivation for high resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy of early-type stars with the Line Emission Mapper X-ray Probe. The m…
Constraints on the multiplicity of the most massive stars known: R136 a1, a2, a3, and c
T. Shenar, H. Sana, P. A. Crowther +5
The most massive stars known to date are R 136 a1, a2, a3, and c within the central cluster R 136a of the Tarantula nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), with reported masses…
Probing the nature of the X-ray source IGR J16327-4940 with Chandra
L. Sidoli, V. Sguera, K. Postnov +3
We report on the results of a Chandra observation of the source IGRJ16327-4940, suggested to be a high mass X-ray binary hosting a luminous blue variable star (LBV). The source fie…
A massive helium star with a sufficiently strong magnetic field to form a magnetar
T. Shenar, G. A. Wade, P. Marchant +13
Magnetars are highly magnetized neutron stars; their formation mechanism is unknown. Hot helium-rich stars with spectra dominated by emission lines are known as Wolf-Rayet stars. W…
Clumping and X-Rays in cooler B supergiant stars
Matheus Bernini-Peron, Wagner L. F. Marcolino, Andreas A. C. Sander +6
B supergiants (BSGs) are evolved stars with effective temperatures between 10 to 30 kK and are important to understand massive star evolution. Located on the edge of the line-drive…
A partially stripped massive star in a Be binary at low metallicity: A missing link towards Be X-ray binaries and double neutron star mergers
V. Ramachandran, J. Klencki, A. A. C. Sander +4
Standard binary evolutionary models predict a significant population of core helium-burning stars that lost their hydrogen-rich envelope after mass transfer via Roche-lobe overflow…