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Constraints on the Binary Companion to the SN Ic 1994I Progenitor
Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Selma E. de Mink, Emmanouil Zapartas
Core-collapse supernovae (SNe), marking the deaths of massive stars, are among the most powerful explosions in the Universe, responsible, e.g., for a predominant synthesis of chemi…
Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project. III. Photometric Catalog and Resulting Constraints on the Progression of Star Formation in the 30 Doradus Region
E. Sabbi, D. J. Lennon, J. Anderson +21
We present and describe the astro-photometric catalog of more than 800,000 sources found in the Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project (HTTP). HTTP is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Tre…
Controversial Age Spreads from the Main Sequence Turn-Off and Red Clump in Intermediate-Age Clusters in the LMC
F. Niederhofer, N. Bastian, V. Kozhurina-Platais +5
Most star clusters at an intermediate age (1-2 Gyr) in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds show a puzzling feature in their color-magnitude diagrams (CMD) that is not in agreemen…
Discovery of the massive overcontact binary VFTS 352: Evidence for enhanced internal mixing
L. A. Almeida, H. Sana, S. E. de Mink +15
The contact phase expected to precede the coalescence of two massive stars is poorly characterized due to the paucity of observational constraints. Here we report on the discovery…
The Brightest Young Star Clusters in NGC 5253
D. Calzetti, K. E. Johnson, A. Adamo +43
The nearby dwarf starburst galaxy NGC5253 hosts a number of young, massive star clusters, the two youngest of which are centrally concentrated and surrounded by thermal radio emiss…
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XXI. Stellar spin rates of O-type spectroscopic binaries
O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo, H. Sana, S. E. de Mink +9
The initial distribution of spin rates of massive stars is a fingerprint of their elusive formation process. It also sets a key initial condition for stellar evolution and is thus…
Massive stars on the verge of exploding: the properties of oxygen sequence Wolf-Rayet stars
F. Tramper, S. M. Straal, D. Sanyal +7
Context. Oxygen sequence Wolf-Rayet (WO) stars represent a very rare stage in the evolution of massive stars. Their spectra show strong emission lines of helium-burning products, i…
Low-metallicity massive single stars with rotation. Evolutionary models applicable to I Zwicky 18
D. Szécsi, N. Langer, S. -C. Yoon +4
Massive rotating single stars with an initial metal composition appropriate for the dwarf galaxy I Zw 18 ([Fe/H]=1.7) are modelled during hydrogen burning for initial masses of…
A High-Resolution Multiband Survey of Westerlund 2 With the Hubble Space Telescope I: Is the Massive Star Cluster Double?
Peter Zeidler, Elena Sabbi, Antonella Nota +7
We present first results from a high resolution multi-band survey of the Westerlund 2 region with the Hubble Space Telescope. Specifically, we imaged Westerlund 2 with the Advanced…
On the formation and evolution of the first Be star in a black hole binary MWC 656
M. Grudzinska, K. Belczynski, J. Casares +8
We find that the formation of MWC 656 (the first Be binary containing a black hole) involves a common envelope phase and a supernova explosion. This result supports the idea that a…
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula survey XX. The nature of the X-ray bright emission line star VFTS 399
J. S. Clark, E. S. Bartlett, P. S. Broos +12
The stellar population of the 30 Doradus star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud contains a subset of apparently single, rapidly rotating O-type stars. The physical proce…
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XVIII. Classifications and radial velocities of the B-type stars
C. J. Evans, M. B. Kennedy, P. L. Dufton +14
We present spectral classifications for 438 B-type stars observed as part of the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Radial v…
The evolution of rotating very massive stars with LMC composition
K. Köhler, N. Langer, A. de Koter +8
We present a dense model grid with tailored input chemical composition appropriate for the Large Magellanic Cloud. We use a one-dimensional hydrodynamic stellar evolution code, whi…
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XIX. B-type Supergiants - Atmospheric parameters and nitrogen abundances to investigate the role of binarity and the width of the main sequence
C. M. McEvoy, P. L. Dufton, C. J. Evans +19
TLUSTY non-LTE model atmosphere calculations have been used to determine atmospheric parameters and nitrogen (N) abundances for 34 single and 18 binary B-type supergiants (BSGs). T…