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Maximum Black Hole mass across Cosmic Time
Jorick S. Vink, Erin R. Higgins, Andreas A. C. Sander +1
At the end of its life, a very massive star is expected to collapse into a black hole. The recent detection of an 85 Msun black hole from the gravitational wave event GW 190521 app…
The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS. II. Physical properties of the most massive stars in R136
Joachim M. Bestenlehner, Paul A. Crowther, Saida M. Caballero-Nieves +11
We present an optical analysis of 55 members of R136, the central cluster in the Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Our sample was observed with STIS aboard the Hubble…
On the nature of massive helium star winds and Wolf-Rayet-type mass loss
Andreas A. C. Sander, Jorick S. Vink
The mass-loss rates of massive helium stars are one of the major uncertainties in modern astrophysics. Regardless of whether they were stripped by a binary companion or managed to…
Star Formation in the Ultraviolet
Jorick S. Vink
With the launch of JWST and the upcoming installation of extremely large telescopes, the first galaxies in our Universe will finally be revealed. Their light will be dominated by m…
A search for strong magnetic fields in massive and very massive stars in the Magellanic Clouds
S. Bagnulo, G. A. Wade, Y. Naze +13
Despite their rarity, massive stars dominate the ecology of galaxies via their strong, radiatively-driven winds throughout their lives and as supernovae in their deaths. However, t…
A theoretical investigation of the Humphreys-Davidson limit at high and low metallicity
Erin R. Higgins, Jorick S. Vink
Current massive star evolution grids are not able to simultaneously reproduce the empirical upper luminosity limit of red supergiants, the Humphrey-Davidson (HD) limit at high and…