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most citedThe Galactic WC and WO stars: The impact of revised distances from Gaia DR2 and their role as massive black hole progenitors

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astro-ph.SR2021★ 44 cited

The excess of cool supergiants from contemporary stellar evolution models defies the metallicity-independent Humphreys-Davidson limit

Avishai Gilkis, Tomer Shenar, Varsha Ramachandran +5

The Humphreys-Davidson (HD) limit empirically defines a region of high luminosities (log L > 5.5) and low effective temperatures (T < 20kK) on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram in wh…