Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
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/
An international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope have found the fastest spinning star ever discovered. VFTS 102 rotates at a dizzying 1 million miles per hour and is very close to the point at … 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 »
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey I: Introduction and observational overview C. J. Evans (UKATC), W. D. Taylor, V. Henault-Brunet, H. Sana, A. de Koter, S. Simon-Diaz, G. Carraro, T. Bagnoli, N. Bastian, J. M. Bestenlehner, A. Z. Bonanos, E. Bressert, I. … Read More »
Binary progenitor models of type IIb supernovae J.S.W. Claeys, S.E. de Mink, O.R. Pols, J.J. Eldridge, M. Baes Massive stars that lose their hydrogen-rich envelope down to a few tenths of a solar mass explode as extended type IIb supernovae, … Read More »
Rotating Massive Main-Sequence Stars II: Simulating a Population of LMC early B-type Stars as a Test of Rotational Mixing Ines Brott, Chris J. Evans, Ian Hunter, Alex de Koter, Norbert Langer, Philip L. Dufton, Matteo Cantiello, Carrie Trundle, Danny J. … Read More »
Rotating Massive Main-Sequence Stars I: Grids of Evolutionary Models and Isochrones Ines Brott, Selma E. de Mink, Matteo Cantiello, Norbert Langer, Alex de Koter, Chris J. Evans, Ian Hunter, Carrie Trundle, Jorick S. Vink We present a dense grid of … Read More »