Luminous blue variables are antisocial: their isolation implies that they are kicked mass gainers in binary evolution

The spectroscopic Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

(2014) N. Langer et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The evolution of massive stars and their spectra

(2014) Jose H. Groh et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

PREPARING FOR AN EXPLOSION: HYDRODYNAMIC INSTABILITIES AND TURBULENCE IN PRESUPERNOVAE

(2014) Nathan Smith et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

UNCOVERING THE PUTATIVE B-STAR BINARY COMPANION OF THE SN 1993J PROGENITOR

(2014) Ori D. Fox et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE INCIDENCE OF STELLAR MERGERS AND MASS GAINERS AMONG MASSIVE STARS

(2014) S. E. de Mink et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

LIGHT ECHOES FROM η CARINAE'S GREAT ERUPTION: SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC EVOLUTION AND THE RAPID FORMATION OF NITROGEN-RICH MOLECULES

(2014) J. L. Prieto et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

TOWARD COMPLETE STATISTICS OF MASSIVE BINARY STARS: PENULTIMATE RESULTS FROM THE CYGNUS OB2 RADIAL VELOCITY SURVEY

(2014) Henry A. Kobulnicky et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

Multi-epoch spectropolarimetry of SN 2009ip: direct evidence for aspherical circumstellar material

(2014) Jon Mauerhan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Environments of interacting transients: impostors and Type IIn supernovae

(2014) S. M. Habergham et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A SAMPLE OF OB STARS THAT FORMED IN THE FIELD

(2013) M. S. Oey et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

AGES OF YOUNG STAR CLUSTERS, MASSIVE BLUE STRAGGLERS, AND THE UPPER MASS LIMIT OF STARS: ANALYZING AGE-DEPENDENT STELLAR MASS FUNCTIONS

(2013) F. R. N. Schneider et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE ROTATION RATES OF MASSIVE STARS: THE ROLE OF BINARY INTERACTION THROUGH TIDES, MASS TRANSFER, AND MERGERS

(2013) S. E. de Mink et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE STRONGLY INTERACTING WITH THEIR CIRCUMSTELLAR MEDIUM

(2013) Jeffrey M. Silverman et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

SN 2011ht: confirming a class of interacting supernovae with plateau light curves (Type IIn-P)

(2013) Jon C. Mauerhan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The Crab nebula and the class of Type IIn-P supernovae caused by sub-energetic electron-capture explosions

(2013) Nathan Smith   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Presupernova Evolution of Massive Single and Binary Stars

(2012) N. Langer   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Grids of stellar models with rotation

(2012) C. Georgy et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Massive star evolution: luminous blue variables as unexpected supernova progenitors

(2012) J. H. Groh et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

ADDITIONAL MASSIVE BINARIES IN THE CYGNUS OB2 ASSOCIATION

(2012) Daniel C. Kiminki et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

AN UPDATED LOOK AT BINARY CHARACTERISTICS OF MASSIVE STARS IN THE CYGNUS OB2 ASSOCIATION

(2012) Daniel C. Kiminki et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE AND HOST GALAXY STELLAR POPULATIONS

(2012) Patrick L. Kelly et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A spectroscopic survey on the multiplicity of high-mass stars

(2012) R. Chini et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

On the association between core-collapse supernovae and H ii regions

(2012) Paul A. Crowther   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Progenitor mass constraints for core-collapse supernovae from correlations with host galaxy star formation★

(2012) J. P. Anderson et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

On the nature of supernovae Ib and Ic

(2012) Luc Dessart et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

How much H and He is ‘hidden’ in SNe Ib/c? - I. Low-mass objects

(2012) S. Hachinger 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

Binary Interaction Dominates the Evolution of Massive Stars

(2012) H. Sana et al.   SCIENCE

The Eddington factor as the key to understand the winds of the most massive stars

(2011) G. Gräfener et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Rotating massive main-sequence stars

(2011) I. Brott et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Resolved photometry of extragalactic young massive star clusters

(2011) S. S. Larsen et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The bi-stability jump as the origin for multiple P-Cygni absorption components in luminous blue variables

(2011) J. H. Groh et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Stellar envelope inflation near the Eddington limit

(2011) G. Gräfener et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

THE SUPERNOVA IMPOSTOR IMPOSTOR SN 1961V:SPITZERSHOWS THAT ZWICKY WAS RIGHT (AGAIN)

(2011) C. S. Kochanek et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A MASSIVE PROGENITOR OF THE LUMINOUS TYPE IIn SUPERNOVA 2010jl

(2011) Nathan Smith et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Luminous blue variable eruptions and related transients: diversity of progenitors and outburst properties

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

Runaway stars as progenitors of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts

(2011) John J. Eldridge et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

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

A HIDDEN POPULATION OF MASSIVE STARS WITH CIRCUMSTELLAR SHELLS DISCOVERED WITH THESPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE

(2010) Stefanie Wachter et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

DISCOVERY OF PRECURSOR LUMINOUS BLUE VARIABLE OUTBURSTS IN TWO RECENT OPTICAL TRANSIENTS: THE FITFULLY VARIABLE MISSING LINKS UGC 2773-OT AND SN 2009ip

(2010) Nathan Smith et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

Massive binary evolution

(2010) Philipp Podsiadlowski   NEW ASTRONOMY REVIEWS

Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae

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

SPITZERSAGE INFRARED PHOTOMETRY OF MASSIVE STARS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD

(2009) A. Z. Bonanos et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

RED SUPERGIANTS AS POTENTIAL TYPE IIn SUPERNOVA PROGENITORS: SPATIALLY RESOLVED 4.6 μm CO EMISSION AROUND VY CMa AND BETELGEUSE

(2009) Nathan Smith et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

Early-type stars in the young open cluster NGC 2244 and in the Monoceros OB2 association

(2009) L. Mahy et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Bolometric luminosity variations in the luminous blue variable AFGL2298

(2009) J. S. Clark et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

THE NGC 300 TRANSIENT: AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR MEASURING PROGENITOR MASSES

(2009) Stephanie M. Gogarten et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A NEW CLASS OF LUMINOUS TRANSIENTS AND A FIRST CENSUS OF THEIR MASSIVE STELLAR PROGENITORS

(2009) Todd A. Thompson et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

CORONAL LINES AND DUST FORMATION IN SN 2005ip: NOT THE BRIGHTEST, BUT THE HOTTEST TYPE IIn SUPERNOVA

(2009) Nathan Smith et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ON THE NATURE OF THE PROTOTYPE LUMINOUS BLUE VARIABLE AG CARINAE. I. FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS DURING VISUAL MINIMUM PHASES AND CHANGES IN THE BOLOMETRIC LUMINOSITY DURING THE S-Dor CYCLE

(2009) J. H. Groh et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

BONA FIDE, STRONG-VARIABLE GALACTIC LUMINOUS BLUE VARIABLE STARS ARE FAST ROTATORS: DETECTION OF A HIGH ROTATIONAL VELOCITY IN HR CARINAE

(2009) J. H. Groh et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Comparisons of the radial distributions of core-collapse supernovae with those of young and old stellar populations

(2009) J. P. Anderson et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The massive star binary fraction in young open clusters – II. NGC 6611 (Eagle Nebula)

(2009) H. Sana et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Spectral population synthesis including massive binaries

(2009) John J. Eldridge et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

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

A massive hypergiant star as the progenitor of the supernova SN 2005gl

(2009) A. Gal-Yam et al.   NATURE

SN 2005 gj: evidence for LBV supernovae progenitors?

(2008) C. Trundle et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

On the Role of the WNH Phase in the Evolution of Very Massive Stars: Enabling the LBV Instability with Feedback

(2008) Nathan Smith et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Characterizing Supernova Progenitors via the Metallicities of their Host Galaxies, from Poor Dwarfs to Rich Spirals

(2008) Jose L. Prieto et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The massive star binary fraction in young open clusters – I. NGC 6231 revisited

(2008) H. Sana et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The effect of massive binaries on stellar populations and supernova progenitors

(2008) John J. Eldridge et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A blast wave from the 1843 eruption of η Carinae

(2008) Nathan Smith   NATURE