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Massive stars with Pollux on LUVOIR

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2018-11-14 v1
Authors: C. Neiner , J. -C. Bouret , C. Evans , the Pollux Hot Stars working group
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Abstract

Many open questions remain about massive stars, for example about their evolution, their wind, and their maximum mass at formation. These issues could be ideally adressed by the Pollux UV spectropolarimeter onboard LUVOIR. Here we present examples of the science themes that one could study with Pollux regarding massive stars.

Keywords

massive stars Pollux LUVOIR UV spectropolarimeter stellar evolution stellar winds formation mass limit

Cite

@article{arxiv.1811.05264,
  title  = {Massive stars with Pollux on LUVOIR},
  author = {C. Neiner and J. -C. Bouret and C. Evans and the Pollux Hot Stars working group},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05264},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the SF2A 2018 meeting

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