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The modelling of massive star evolution is a complex task, and is very sensitive to the way physical processes (such as convection, rotation, mass loss, etc.) are included in stellar evolution code. Moreover, the very high observed fraction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-19 Cyril Georgy , Raphael Hirschi , Sylvia Ekström

We consider the spin evolution of highly magnetized neutron stars in a hypercritical inflow just after their birth in supernovae. Presence of a strong magnetic field could deform the star and if the symmetry axis of the field is misaligned…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shin Yoshida

Massive stars are the drivers of star formation and galactic dynamics due to their relatively short lives and explosive demises, thus impacting all of astrophysics. Since they are so impactful on their environments, through their winds on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-16 Kyle C. Augustson

Incorporation of the Vaidya metric in the model of Expansive Nondecelerative Universe allows to localize the energy density of gravitational field that, subsequently, enables to determine the upper limit of stars mass. The upper limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jozef Sima , Miroslav Sukenik

Rotation and magnetism are increasingly recognized as important phenomena in stellar evolution. Surface magnetic fields from a few to $20{,}000\,$G have been observed and models have suggested that magnetohydrodynamic transport of angular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Leo G. Quentin , Christopher A. Tout

The stellar mass and metallicity are among the fundamental parameters of galaxies. An understanding of the interplay between those properties as well as their environmental dependence will give us a general picture of the physics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. A. Lara-Lopez , A. M. Hopkins , A. Robotham , M. S. Owers , M. Colless , S. Brough , P. Norberg , O. Steele , E. N. Taylor , D. Thomas

One of the defining processes which govern massive star evolution is their continuous mass loss via dense, supersonic line-driven winds. In the case of those OB stars which also host a surface magnetic field, the interaction between that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 A. David-Uraz , V. Petit , C. Erba , A. Fullerton , N. Walborn , R. MacInnis

Massive stars have a strong impact on their surroundings, in particular when they produce a core-collapse supernova at the end of their evolution. In these proceedings, we review the general evolution of massive stars and their properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-22 Raphael Hirschi , David Arnett , Andrea Cristini , Cyril Georgy , Casey Meakin , Ian Walkington

The gravitational action of the smooth energy-matter components filling in the universe can affect the orbit of a planetary system. Changes are related to the acceleration of the cosmological scale size R. In a universe with significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Sereno , Ph. Jetzer

In this paper, we discuss some consequences of rotation and mass loss on the evolved stages of massive star evolution. The physical reasons of the time evolution of the surface velocity are explained, and then we show how the late-time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Cyril Georgy , Hideyuki Saio , Sylvia Ekström , Georges Meynet

In order to understand the periodic and semi-periodic variations of luminous O- B- A-type stars, linear nonadiabatic stability analyses for radial and nonradial oscillations have been performed for massive evolutionary models ($8M_\odot -…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hideyuki Saio

Combining the GW observations of merging systems of binary neutron stars and quasi-universal relations, we set constraints on the maximum mass that can be attained by nonrotating stellar models of neutron stars. More specifically,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-06 Luciano Rezzolla , Elias R. Most , Lukas R. Weih

GRBs vary more rapidly than any other known cosmological phenomena. The lower limits of this variability have not yet been explored. Improvements in detectors would reveal or limit the actual rate of short GRBs. Were microsecond "spike"…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Robert J. Nemiroff , Jay P. Norris , Jerry T. Bonnell , Gabriela F. Marani

We consider the hypothesis that the formation of elliptical galaxies includes a phase in which star formation is mostly restricted to massive stars, with the bias towards high mass stars increasing with elliptical galaxy mass. The mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Stephen E. Zepf , Joseph Silk

Massive stars are essential to understand a variety of branches of astronomy including galaxy and star cluster evolution, nucleosynthesis and supernovae, pulsars and black holes. It has become evident that massive star evolution is very…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-13 N. Langer

Massive stars, by which we mean those stars exploding as core collapse supernovae, play a pivotal role in the evolution of the Universe. Therefore, the understanding of their evolution and explosion is fundamental in many branches of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Marco Limongi

Magnetism is a ubiquitous property of astrophysical plasmas, yet stellar magnetism still remains far from being completely understood. In this review, we describe recent observational and modelling efforts and progress to expand our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 Z. Keszthelyi

Dynamical stellar-evolution modeling through the AGB phase reveals that radial pulsations with very fast-growing amplitudes develop if the luminosity to mass ratio of stars with tenuous envelopes exceeds a critical limit. An instability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Alfred Gautschy

We discuss recent models on the evolution of massive stars at very low metallicity including the effects of rotation, magnetic fields and binarity. Very metal poor stars lose very little mass and angular momentum during the main sequence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. -C. Yoon , M. Cantiello , N. Langer

Binary stars are of course more than two stars, but they are also at least two stars. In this chapter we will review some aspects of the physics governing the evolution of single massive stars. We will also review the uncertainties of key…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Cyril Georgy , Sylvia Ekström