6 papers
EWOCS VII : Unveiling the faint diffuse X-ray emission in Westerlund 1
Albacete-Colombo J. F., Andersen M., De Becker M. +16
Westerlund 1 (Wd 1) is the closest supermassive star cluster to the Sun, with over 100,000 stars of all spectral types down to brown dwarfs. This population strongly heats the surr…
EWOCS-VIII: Internal kinematics and expansion of Westerlund 1 from VVVX proper motions
C. Ordenes-Huanca, A. Bayo, M. Guarcello +12
Westerlund 1 (Wd1) is the most massive young star cluster known in the Milky Way and a key laboratory for studying the early dynamical evolution of massive clusters. Owing to its h…
EWOCS-VI: Probing the hidden intermediate-mass population of Westerlund 1
C. Ordenes-Huanca, A. Bayo, M. Guarcello +11
Context: Westerlund 1 (Wd1), the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way, is an excellent laboratory for studying star formation and early stellar evolution in a starburst…
Embedding Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the WST Collaboration
Laurane Fréour, Anna Puglisi, Maria Cristina Fortuna +11
The proposed Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a next-generation telescope facility with a 12-meter primary mirror that may be operational in the 2040s. The project has a…
EWOCS-V: Is Wd1-72 a recent post-interaction WR+O binary?
C. J. K. Larkin, J. Mackey, H. Jin +14
The evolutionary origin of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars at Solar metallicity is unclear. Single-star evolution from massive O stars, possibly via a Luminous Blue Variable phase, is challe…
EWOCS-IV: 1Ms ACIS Chandra observation of the supergiant B[e] star Wd1-9
K. Anastasopoulou, M. G. Guarcello, J. J. Drake +21
Supergiant B[e] (sgB[e]) stars are exceptionally rare objects, with only a handful of confirmed examples in the Milky Way. The evolutionary pathways leading to the sgB[e] phase rem…