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most citedMass Loss: Its Effect on the Evolution and Fate of High-Mass Stars

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astro-ph.SR2026

Detached Post-Algol Eclipsing Binaries Caught Between Case A and Case AB Mass Transfer

Megan G. Frank, Maxwell Moe, Nathan Smith

For sixty years, stellar evolutionary models have predicted that intermediate-mass stars slightly contract on the terminal-age main-sequence (TAMS) as they exhaust hydrogen in thei…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

SN 2022joj: A Potential Double Detonation with a Thin Helium shell

E. Padilla Gonzalez, D. A. Howell, G. Terreran +34

We present photometric and spectroscopic data for SN 2022joj, a nearby peculiar Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) with a fast decline rate ( mag). SN 2022joj shows exce…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 83 cited

A Luminous Red Supergiant and Dusty Long-period Variable Progenitor for SN 2023ixf

Jacob E. Jencson, Jeniveve Pearson, Emma R. Beasor +23

We analyze pre-explosion near- and mid-infrared (IR) imaging of the site of SN 2023ixf in the nearby spiral galaxy M101 and characterize the candidate progenitor star. The star dis…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 2 cited

Stellar properties of observed stars stripped in binaries in the Magellanic Clouds

Y. Gotberg, M. R. Drout, A. P. Ji +6

Massive stars (~8-25Msun) stripped of their hydrogen-rich envelopes via binary interaction are thought to be the main progenitors for merging neutron stars and stripped-envelope su…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 4 cited

Discovery of the missing intermediate-mass helium stars stripped in binaries

M. R. Drout, Y. Götberg, B. A. Ludwig +4

The theory of binary evolution predicts that many massive stars should lose their hydrogen-rich envelopes via interaction with a companion -- revealing hot helium stars with masses…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 90 cited

Early Spectroscopy and Dense Circumstellar Medium Interaction in SN 2023ixf

K. Azalee Bostroem, Jeniveve Pearson, Manisha Shrestha +53

We present the optical spectroscopic evolution of SN~2023ixf seen in sub-night cadence spectra from 1.18 to 14 days after explosion. We identify high-ionization emission features,…