Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
LEGUS, the Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey, has been granted 154 orbits of time on the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain NUV,U,B,V,I imaging for 50 nearby galaxies (closer than about 11 Mpc) that have been carefully selected to span the full … Read More »
Stellar models suggest that rotation can have drastic impact on the evolution of massive stars, but various aspects of these effects remain highly uncertain. One of the best place to study these effects is in #0 Doradus, which contains a … Read More »
The Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project (HTTP), an ongoing multi color imaging survey lead by Elena Sabbi of stellar populations in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud that reaches into the sub-solar mass regime. An observational overview and first … Read More »
New paper Accepted for publication in A&A available on ArXiv. (Sana, de Koter, de Mink et al. 2012) With 360 O-type stars the Tarantula Survey of massive stars (Evans et al 2011) is the largest homogeneous sample of massive stars … Read More »
Several million stars are vying for attention in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula. 30 Doradus is the brightest star-forming region in our … Read More »
The effects of differential reddening and stellar rotation on the appearance of multiple populations in star clusters: the case of Trumpler 20. I. Platais, C. Melo, S. N. Quinn, J. L. Clem, S. E. de Mink, A. Dotter, V. Kozhurina-Platais, … Read More »
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: The fastest rotating O-type star and shortest period LMC pulsar – remnants of a supernova disrupted binary? P. L. Dufton, P. R. Dunstall, C. J. Evans, I. Brott, M. Cantiello, A. de Koter, S.E. de Mink, … Read More »
Resolved photometry of extragalactic young massive star clusters S. S. Larsen, S. E. de Mink, J. J. Eldridge, N. Langer, N. Bastian, A. Seth, L. J. Smith, J. Brodie, Y. N. Efremov We present colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for a sample … Read More »
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey II: R139 revealed as a massive binary system W. D. Taylor, C. J. Evans, H. Sana, N. R. Walborn, S. E. de Mink, V. E. Stroud, A. Alvarez-Candal, R. H. Barbá, J. M. Bestenlehner, A. Z. … Read More »