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most citedA new mass-loss rate prescription for red supergiants

185 citations · 619 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.SR2021

The Age of Westerlund 1 Revisited

Emma R. Beasor, Ben Davies, Nathan Smith +2

The cluster Westerlund~1 (Wd1) is host to a large variety of post main-sequence (MS) massive stars. The simultaneous presence of these stars can only be explained by stellar models…

astro-ph.SR202044 cited

On `On the Red Supergiant Problem': a rebuttal, and a consensus on the upper mass cutoff for II-P progenitors

Ben Davies, Emma Beasor

The `Red Supergiant Problem' describes the claim that the brightest Red Supergiant (RSG) progenitors to type II-P supernovae are significantly fainter than RSGs in the field. This…

astro-ph.SR202010 cited

On aging star clusters using red supergiants independent of the fraction of interacting binary stars

J. J. Eldridge, Emma R. Beasor, N. Britavskiy

We use the Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis (BPASS) models to test the recent suggestion that red supergiants can provide an accurate age estimate of a co-eval stellar popu…

astro-ph.SR2020185 cited

A new mass-loss rate prescription for red supergiants

Emma R. Beasor, Ben Davies, Nathan Smith +3

Evolutionary models have shown the substantial effect that strong mass-loss rates () can have on the fate of massive stars. Red supergiant (RSG) mass-loss is poorly unders…

astro-ph.SR202099 cited

The `Red Supergiant Problem': the upper luminosity boundary of type-II supernova progenitors

Ben Davies, Emma R. Beasor

By comparing the properties of Red Supergiant (RSG) supernova progenitors to those of field RSGs, it has been claimed that there is an absence of progenitors with luminosities

astro-ph.SR201928 cited

The distances to star-clusters hosting Red Supergiants: Per, NGC 7419, and Westerlund 1

Ben Davies, Emma Beasor

Galactic, young massive star clusters are approximately coeval aggregates of stars, close enough to resolve the individual stars, massive enough to have produced large numbers of m…