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astro-ph.SR2018★ 22 cited
A critical re-evaluation of the Thorne-Żytkow object candidate HV 2112
Emma R. Beasor, Ben Davies, Ivan Cabrera-Ziri +1
It has been argued in the literature that the star HV~2112 in the Small Magellanic Cloud is the first known example of a TŻO, a Red Supergiant with a degenerate neutron core. This…
astro-ph.SR2018★ 113 cited
The luminosities of cool supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds, and the Humphreys-Davidson limit revisited
Ben Davies, Paul A. Crowther, Emma R. Beasor
The empirical upper luminosity boundary of cool supergiants, often referred to as the Humphreys-Davidson limit, is thought to encode information on the general mass-l…