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20182026
most citedAn excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst

263 citations · 553 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Localized O production in white dwarf mergers

Alexander Holas, Veronica Agaeva, Friedrich K. Roepke +5

The merger of a He white dwarf (WD) and a CO WD is the favored formation channel for R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars. These stars exhibit ratio…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Magnetic field generation in mergers of massive main-sequence stars

Sebastian T. Ohlmann, Fabian R. N. Schneider, Friedrich K. Roepke +3

Magnetic fields are found in many astrophysical objects, ranging from galaxy clusters to the interstellar medium of galaxies and neutron stars. Strong surface magnetic fields are a…

astro-ph.SR2025

Good things always come in 3s: trimodality in the binary black-hole chirp-mass distribution supports bimodal black-hole formation

Reinhold Willcox, Fabian R. N. Schneider, Eva Laplace +7

The latest GWTC-4 release from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration nearly doubles the known population of double compact object mergers and reveals a new trimodal structure in…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 9 cited

A fundamental limit to how close binary systems can get via stable mass transfer shapes the properties of binary black hole mergers

Jakub Klencki, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Norbert Langer +4

Mass transfer in binary systems is the key process in the formation of various classes of objects, including merging binary black holes (BBHs) and neutron stars. Orbital evolution…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 17 cited

Large-scale ordered magnetic fields generated in mergers of helium white dwarfs

Rüdiger Pakmor, Ingrid Pelisoli, Stephen Justham +9

Stellar mergers are one important path to highly magnetised stars. Mergers of two low-mass white dwarfs may create up to every third hot subdwarf star. The merging process is usual…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 263 cited

An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst

F. R. N. Schneider, H. Sana, C. J. Evans +29

The 30 Doradus star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby analogue of large star-formation events in the distant Universe. We determine the recent formation hist…