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astro-ph.GA2025

Isolated massive star candidates in NGC 4242 with GULP

Pietro Facchini, Eva K. Grebel, Anna Pasquali +16

There is considerable debate on how massive stars form, including whether a high-mass star must always form with a population of low-mass stars or whether it ca…

astro-ph.SR202522 cited

A high fraction of close massive binary stars at low metallicity

H. Sana, T. Shenar, J. Bodensteiner +74

At high metallicity, a majority of massive stars have at least one close stellar companion. The evolution of such binaries is subject to strong interaction processes, heavily impac…

astro-ph.SR2025

The UV Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards (ULLYSES) Large Director's Discretionary Program with Hubble. I. Goals, Design, and Initial Results

Julia Roman-Duval, William J. Fischer, Alexander W. Fullerton +44

Specifically selected to leverage the unique ultraviolet capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Hubble Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards (UL…

astro-ph.SR201942 cited

Weighing Melnick 34: the most massive binary system known

Katie A. Tehrani, Paul A. Crowther, Joachim M. Bestenlehner +4

Here we confirm Melnick 34, an X-ray bright star in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, as an SB2 binary comprising WN5h+WN5h components. We present orbital soluti…

astro-ph.GA2016

The Very Massive Star Content of the Nuclear Star Clusters in NGC 5253

L. J. Smith, P. A. Crowther, D. Calzetti +1

The blue compact dwarf galaxy NGC 5253 hosts a very young starburst containing twin nuclear star clusters, separated by a projected distance of 5 pc. One cluster (#5) coincides wit…