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astro-ph.SR2016★ 9 cited
LBVs and Statistical Inference
Kris Davidson, Roberta M. Humphreys, Kerstin Weis
Smith and Tombleson (2015) asserted that statistical tests disprove the standard view of LBVs, and proposed a far more complex scenario to replace it. But Humphreys et al. (2016) s…
astro-ph.SR2016★ 79 cited
On the Social Traits of Luminous Blue Variables
Roberta M. Humphreys, Kerstin Weis, Kris Davidson +1
In a recent paper, Smith and Tombleson (2015) state that the Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs) in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds are isolated; that they are not spatially ass…
astro-ph.SR2016★ 6 cited
Giant eruptions of very massive stars
Kris Davidson
Giant eruptions or supernova-impostor events are far more mysterious than true supernovae. An extreme example can release as much radiative energy as a SN, ejecting several M_sun o…