Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
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 »
Astronomers have discovered two clusters full of very bright stars on the verge of merging. The clusters are located at a distance of 170,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of our Milky … 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 »
Bob Hirshon from the AAAS science society discusses the discovery of the fastest spinning star in the popular science podcast: scienceupdate.com http://www.scienceupdate.com/2011/12/star/
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 »
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 »