Birth, life and death of massive stars

The first stars: mass growth under protostellar feedback

(2012) Athena Stacy et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Light echoes reveal an unexpectedly cool η Carinae during its nineteenth-century Great Eruption

(2012) A. Rest et al.   NATURE

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

(2011) C. J. Evans et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

THE RMS SURVEY: THE LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS AND TIMESCALES OF MASSIVE YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS AND COMPACT H II REGIONS

(2011) Joseph C. Mottram et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

THE VLT-FLAMES TARANTULA SURVEY: THE FASTEST ROTATING O-TYPE STAR AND SHORTEST PERIOD LMC PULSAR—REMNANTS OF A SUPERNOVA DISRUPTED BINARY?

(2011) P. L. Dufton et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Observed fractions of core-collapse supernova types and initial masses of their single and binary progenitor stars

(2011) Nathan Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Hydrogen-poor superluminous stellar explosions

(2011) R. M. Quimby et al.   NATURE

Core-collapse astrophysics with a five-megaton neutrino detector

(2011) Matthew D. Kistler et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

THE HOST GALAXIES OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS. II. A MASS-METALLICITY RELATION FOR LONG-DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXIES

(2010) Emily M. Levesque et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

THE EXTREME HOSTS OF EXTREME SUPERNOVAE

(2010) James D. Neill et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

TYPE Ib/c SUPERNOVAE IN BINARY SYSTEMS. I. EVOLUTION AND PROPERTIES OF THE PROGENITOR STARS

(2010) S.-C. Yoon et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE FROM THE PALOMAR TRANSIENT FACTORY: INDICATIONS FOR A DIFFERENT POPULATION IN DWARF GALAXIES

(2010) Iair Arcavi et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 M⊙ stellar mass limit

(2010) Paul A. Crowther et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Intense star formation within resolved compact regions in a galaxy at z = 2.3

(2010) A. M. Swinbank et al.   NATURE

Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae

(2009) Stephen J. Smartt   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Rotational mixing in massive binaries

(2009) S. E. de Mink et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The death of massive stars - I. Observational constraints on the progenitors of Type II-P supernovae

(2009) S. J. Smartt et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The Disappearance of the Progenitors of Supernovae 1993J and 2003gd

(2009) J. R. Maund et al.   SCIENCE

The Formation of Massive Star Systems by Accretion

(2009) M. R. Krumholz et al.   SCIENCE

Long γ‐Ray Bursts and Type Ic Core‐Collapse Supernovae Have Similar Locations in Hosts

(2008) Patrick L. Kelly et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A spectroscopic survey of WNL stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: general properties and binary status

(2008) O. Schnurr et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The Cassiopeia A Supernova Was of Type IIb

(2008) O. Krause et al.   SCIENCE