Theory and diagnostics of hot star mass loss

JS Vink - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Massive stars have strong stellar winds that direct their evolution through the upper
Hertzsprung–Russell diagram and determine the black hole mass function. Furthermore …

Binary population synthesis

ZW Han, HW Ge, XF Chen… - Research in Astronomy …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Binary interactions lead to the formation of intriguing objects, such as compact binaries,
supernovae, gamma ray bursts, X-ray binaries, pulsars, novae, cataclysmic variables, hot …

Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS

T Compas, J Riley, P Agrawal, JW Barrett… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics (COMPAS;
https://compas. science) is a public rapid binary population synthesis code. COMPAS …

On the nature of massive helium star winds and Wolf–Rayet-type mass-loss

AAC Sander, JS Vink - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The mass-loss rates of massive helium stars are one of the major uncertainties in modern
astrophysics. Regardless of whether they were stripped by a binary companion or managed …

The XQR-30 metal absorber catalogue: 778 absorption systems spanning 2 ≲ z ≲ 6.5

RL Davies, E Ryan-Weber, V D'Odorico… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Intervening metal absorption lines in the spectra of z≳ 6 quasars are fundamental probes of
the ionization state and chemical composition of circumgalactic and intergalactic gas near …

No missing photons for reionization: moderate ionizing photon escape fractions from the FIRE-2 simulations

X Ma, E Quataert, A Wetzel, PF Hopkins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present the escape fraction of hydrogen ionizing photons (f esc) from a sample of 34
high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxies at z≥ 5 in the Feedback in …

Very massive stars and nitrogen-emitting galaxies

JS Vink - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Recent studies of high-redshift galaxies with James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), such
as GN-z11 at z= 10.6, show unexpectedly significant amounts of nitrogen (N) in their spectra …

Nebular emission from young stellar populations including binary stars

M Lecroq, S Charlot, A Bressan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the nebular emission produced by young stellar populations using the new
galsevn model based on the combination of the sevn population-synthesis code including …

An observed population of intermediate-mass helium stars that have been stripped in binaries

MR Drout, Y Götberg, BA Ludwig, JH Groh, SE de Mink… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The hydrogen-rich outer layers of massive stars can be removed by interactions with a
binary companion. Theoretical models predict that this stripping produces a population of …

Stellar properties of observed stars stripped in binaries in the Magellanic Clouds

Y Götberg, MR Drout, AP Ji, JH Groh… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Massive stars (∼ 8–25 M⊙) stripped of their hydrogen-rich envelopes via binary
interaction are thought to be the main progenitors for merging neutron stars and stripped …