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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.GA2025★ 1 cited

Can Wolf-Rayet stars be the missing ingredient to explain high-z He II ionizing radiation?

G. González-Torà, A. A. C. Sander, E. Egorova +7

Classical Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are hot, massive stars with depleted hydrogen. At low metallicities (Z), WN3-type WR stars have relatively thin winds and are major sources of ioniz…

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SDSS-V LVM: Detectability of Wolf-Rayet stars and their He II ionizing flux in low-metallicity environments I. The weak-lined, early-type WN3 stars in the SMC

G. González-Torà, A. A. C. Sander, E. Egorova +18

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the nearest low-metallicity dwarf galaxy. Its proximity and low reddening has enabled us to detect its Wolf-Rayet (WR) star population with 12 k…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 22 cited

A high fraction of close massive binary stars at low metallicity

H. Sana, T. Shenar, J. Bodensteiner +74

At high metallicity, a majority of massive stars have at least one close stellar companion. The evolution of such binaries is subject to strong interaction processes, heavily impac…

astro-ph.SR2025

Hidden massive eclipsing binaries in red supergiant systems: The hierarchical triple system KQ Puppis and other candidates

D. Jadlovský, L. Molnár, A. Ercolino +26

The majority of massive stars are part of binary systems that may interact during their evolution. However, not many RSGs are known binaries, and only a few have constrained orbita…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

First JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy of O Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Armin Mang Román, Peter Zeidler, Wolf-Rainer Hamann +10

Determining how much mass is removed by stellar winds is crucial to understanding massive star evolution and feedback. However, traditional spectroscopic diagnostics in the UV and…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 14 cited

Comprehensive UV and Optical spectral analysis of Cygnus X-1: Stellar and wind parameters, abundances, and evolutionary implications

V. Ramachandran, A. A. C. Sander, L. M. Oskinova +7

We present a comprehensive analysis of Cyg X-1, utilizing archival high-resolution UV and optical spectra in conjunction with sophisticated atmospheric models. Notably, this is the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Extremely iron-poor O-type stars in the Magellanic Bridge

E. C. Schösser, V. Ramachandran, A. A. C. Sander +7

To study stars analogous to those in the early Universe with redshift z > 3, we need to probe environments with low metallicities. Until recently, massive O-type stars with metalli…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 14 cited

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): Enhanced multiplicity of early B-type dwarfs and giants at

J. I. Villaseñor, H. Sana, L. Mahy +32

Early B-type stars ( M) are frequently in multiple systems, as evidenced by spectroscopic campaigns in the Milky Way (MW) and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Pr…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 17 cited

Binarity at Low Metallicity (BLOeM) -- Multiplicity properties of Oe and Be stars

J. Bodensteiner, T. Shenar, H. Sana +40

Rapidly rotating classical OBe stars have been proposed as the products of binary interactions, and the fraction of Be stars with compact companions implies that at least some are.…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 9 cited

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…