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Evidence for the emergence of stellar magnetic fields during rapid mass transfer
Gregg A. Wade, Tomer Shenar, Pablo Marchant +6
Binary interaction fundamentally alters the evolution of massive stars, yet the physical consequences of mass transfer remain poorly constrained. Here we present high-resolution sp…
You're Gonna Need a Bigger Core: Calibrating Massive Star Models against Galactic OB-type Stars
Thibault Lechien, Selma E. de Mink, Stephen Justham +3
The evolution of massive stars above 8 M depends critically on the amount of mixing above the convective core during the main sequence. However, current models typically ex…
Neutron star-companion interaction in core collapse supernovae. Population synthesis based on detailed binary evolution models
Andrea Ercolino, Norbert Langer, Avishay Gal-Yam +6
Most massive stars live in binary systems. When the first supernova (SN) in a binary occurs, the ejecta hit the companion, which may inflate as a consequence, and then interact wit…
Thermal-timescale accretion does not always yield critical rotation in mass gainers
Chen Wang, Mike Y. M. Lau, Xiang-Dong Li +7
Binary evolution plays a central role in producing rapidly rotating stars. Previous studies have shown that mass gainers in binaries can reach critical rotation after accreting onl…
Using detailed single star and binary evolution models to probe the large observed luminosity spread of red supergiants in young open star clusters
Chen Wang, Lee Patrick, Abel Schootemeijer +12
Red supergiants (RSGs) represent a late evolutionary stage of massive stars. Recent observations reveal that the observed luminosity range of RSGs in young open clusters is wider t…
Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): Multiplicity of early B-type supergiants in the Small Magellanic Cloud
N. Britavskiy, L. Mahy, D. J. Lennon +32
The blue supergiant (BSG) domain contains a large variety of stars whose past and future evolutionary paths are still highly uncertain. Since binary interaction plays a crucial rol…
Stripped helium-star and compact object binaries in coeval populations -- predictions based on detailed binary evolution models
Chen Wang, Julia Bodensteiner, Xiao-Tian Xu +9
Massive stars mainly form in close binaries, where their mutual interactions can profoundly alter their evolutionary paths. Evolved binaries consisting of a massive OB-type main-se…
Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): a spectroscopic VLT monitoring survey of massive stars in the SMC
T. Shenar, J. Bodensteiner, H. Sana +74
Surveys in the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud revealed that the majority of massive stars will interact with companions during their lives. However, knowledge of the binary p…
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…
The Asteroseismic Imprints of Mass Transfer: A Case Study of a Binary Mass Gainer in the SPB Instability Strip
Tom Wagg, Cole Johnston, Earl P. Bellinger +3
We present new simulations investigating the impact of mass transfer on the asteroseismic signals of slowly pulsating B stars. We use MESA to simulate the evolution of a binary sta…
Investigating the Chemically Homogeneous Evolution Channel and its Role in the Formation of the Enigmatic Binary Black Hole Progenitor Candidate HD 5980
K. Sharpe, L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink +3
Chemically homogeneous evolution (CHE) is a promising channel for forming massive binary black holes. The enigmatic, massive Wolf-Rayet (WR) binary HD 5980 A&B has been proposed to…
Solar evolution models with a central black hole
Earl P. Bellinger, Matt E. Caplan, Taeho Ryu +6
Hawking (1971) proposed that the Sun may harbor a primordial black hole whose accretion supplies some of the solar luminosity. Such an object would have formed within the first 1 s…
Is Betelgeuse Really Rotating? Synthetic ALMA Observations of Large-scale Convection in 3D Simulations of Red Supergiants
Jing-Ze Ma, Andrea Chiavassa, Selma E. de Mink +3
The evolved stages of massive stars are poorly understood, but invaluable constraints can be derived from spatially resolved observations of nearby red supergiants, such as Betelge…
The Potential of Asteroseismology to Resolve the Blue Supergiant Problem
Earl Patrick Bellinger, Selma E. de Mink, Walter E. van Rossem +1
Despite major progress in our understanding of massive stars, concerning discrepancies still remain between observations and theory. Most notable are the numerous stars observed be…
Variability of Blue Supergiants in the LMC with TESS
Linhao Ma, Cole Johnston, Earl P. Bellinger +1
The blue supergiant (BSG) problem, namely, the overabundance of BSGs inconsistent with classical stellar evolution theory, remains an open question in stellar astrophysics. Several…
The young massive SMC cluster NGC 330 seen by MUSE III. Stellar parameters and rotational velocities
J. Bodensteiner, H. Sana, P. L. Dufton +11
The origin of initial rotation rates of stars, and how a star's surface rotational velocity changes during the evolution, either by internal angular momentum transport or due to in…
The B-type Binaries Characterisation Programme II. VFTS 291: A stripped star from a recent mass transfer phase
J. I. Villaseñor, D. J. Lennon, A. Picco +12
Recent studies of massive binaries with putative black hole companions have uncovered a phase of binary evolution that has not been observed before, featuring a bloated stripped st…
Stellar triples with chemically homogeneously evolving inner binaries
Andris Dorozsmai, Silvia Toonen, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez +2
Observations suggest that massive stellar triples are common. However, their evolution is not yet fully understood. We investigate the evolution of hierarchical triples in which th…
Stellar properties of observed stars stripped in binaries in the Magellanic Clouds
Y. Gotberg, M. R. Drout, A. P. Ji +6
Massive stars (~8-25Msun) stripped of their hydrogen-rich envelopes via binary interaction are thought to be the main progenitors for merging neutron stars and stripped-envelope su…
Discovery of the missing intermediate-mass helium stars stripped in binaries
M. R. Drout, Y. Götberg, B. A. Ludwig +4
The theory of binary evolution predicts that many massive stars should lose their hydrogen-rich envelopes via interaction with a companion -- revealing hot helium stars with masses…
X-Shooting ULLYSES: massive stars at low metallicity. I. Project Description
Jorick S. Vink, A. Mehner, P. A. Crowther +78
Observations of individual massive stars, super-luminous supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, and gravitational-wave events involving spectacular black-hole mergers, indicate that the low…
Observational predictions for Thorne-Żytkow objects
R. Farmer, M. Renzo, Y. Götberg +3
Thorne-ytkow objects (TO) are potential end products of the merger of a neutron star with a non-degenerate star. In this work, we have computed the first grid of evolutionary…
Nucleosynthesis of binary-stripped stars
R. Farmer, E. Laplace, Jing-ze Ma +2
The cosmic origin of the elements, the fundamental chemical building blocks of the Universe, is still uncertain. Binary interactions play a key role in the evolution of many massiv…
Spectroscopic and evolutionary analyses of the binary system AzV 14 outline paths toward the WR stage at low metallicity
D. Pauli, L. M. Oskinova, W. -R. Hamann +16
The origin of the observed population of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars in low-metallicity (low-Z) galaxies, such as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), is not yet understood. Standard, singl…