Classical Be stars: Rapidly rotating B stars with viscous Keplerian decretion disks

T Rivinius, AC Carciofi, C Martayan - The Astronomy and Astrophysics …, 2013 - Springer
In the past decade, a consensus has emerged regarding the nature of classical Be stars:
They are very rapidly rotating main sequence B stars, which, through a still unknown, but …

Towards a unified view of inhomogeneous stellar winds in isolated supergiant stars and supergiant high mass X-ray binaries

S Martínez-Núñez, P Kretschmar, E Bozzo… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
Massive stars, at least∼ 10 \sim10 times more massive than the Sun, have two key
properties that make them the main drivers of evolution of star clusters, galaxies, and the …

The MiMeS survey of magnetism in massive stars: introduction and overview

GA Wade, C Neiner, E Alecian… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The MiMeS (Magnetism in Massive Stars) project is a large-scale, high-resolution,
sensitive spectropolarimetric investigation of the magnetic properties of O-and early B-type …

A massive helium star with a sufficiently strong magnetic field to form a magnetar

T Shenar, GA Wade, P Marchant, S Bagnulo… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Magnetars are highly magnetized neutron stars, the formation mechanism of which is
unknown. Hot helium-rich stars with spectra dominated by emission lines are known as Wolf …

Stellar mergers as the origin of the blue main-sequence band in young star clusters

C Wang, N Langer, A Schootemeijer, A Milone… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Recent high-quality Hubble Space Telescope photometry shows that the main-
sequence stars of young star clusters form two discrete components in the colour …

MOBSTER–VI. The crucial influence of rotation on the radio magnetospheres of hot stars

ME Shultz, SP Owocki, A Ud-Doula… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Numerous magnetic hot stars exhibit gyrosynchrotron radio emission. The source electrons
were previously thought to be accelerated to relativistic velocities in the current sheet formed …

The magnetic early B-type stars–III. A main-sequence magnetic, rotational, and magnetospheric biography

ME Shultz, GA Wade, T Rivinius… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Magnetic confinement of stellar winds leads to the formation of magnetospheres, which can
be sculpted into centrifugal magnetospheres (CMs) by rotational support of the corotating …

A scaling relationship for non-thermal radio emission from ordered magnetospheres: from the top of the main sequence to planets

P Leto, C Trigilio, J Krtička, L Fossati… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we present the analysis of incoherent non-thermal radio emission from a
sample of hot magnetic stars, ranging from early-B to early-A spectral type. Spanning a wide …

The Evolution of Massive Binary Stars

P Marchant, J Bodensteiner - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Massive stars play a major role in the evolution of their host galaxies and serve as important
probes of the distant Universe. It has been established that the majority of massive stars …

The IACOB project-VII. The rotational properties of Galactic massive O-type stars revisited

G Holgado, S Simón-Díaz, A Herrero… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Stellar rotation is of key importance in the formation process, the evolution, and the
final fate of massive stars. Aims. We perform a reassessment of the empirical rotational …