Luminous blue variables and the fates of very massive stars

The spectral temperature of optically thick outflows with application to light echo spectra from η Carinae's giant eruption

(2016) Stanley P. Owocki et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Super-Eddington stellar winds driven by near-surface energy deposition

(2016) Eliot Quataert et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The isolation of luminous blue variables: on subdividing the sample

(2016) Nathan Smith   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The Persistent Eruption of UGC 2773-OT: finally, a decade-long extragalactic Eta Carinae analogue

(2015) Nathan Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

SN Hunt 248: a super-Eddington outburst from a massive cool hypergiant

(2015) Jon C. Mauerhan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Constraints on Type IIn supernova progenitor outbursts from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search

(2015) C. Bilinski et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

PTF11iqb: cool supergiant mass-loss that bridges the gap between Type IIn and normal supernovae

(2015) Nathan Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Mass Loss: Its Effect on the Evolution and Fate of High-Mass Stars

(2014) Nathan Smith   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The spectroscopic Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

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

PREPARING FOR AN EXPLOSION: HYDRODYNAMIC INSTABILITIES AND TURBULENCE IN PRESUPERNOVAE

(2014) Nathan Smith et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

PRECURSORS PRIOR TO TYPE IIn SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS ARE COMMON: PRECURSOR RATES, PROPERTIES, AND CORRELATIONS

(2014) Eran O. Ofek 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

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

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

Stellar mergers are common

(2014) C. S. Kochanek et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2014) Nathan Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

INTERACTING SUPERNOVAE AND SUPERNOVA IMPOSTORS: SN 2009ip, IS THIS THE END?

(2013) A. Pastorello et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DETECTION OF AN OUTBURST ONE YEAR PRIOR TO THE EXPLOSION OF SN 2011ht

(2013) M. Fraser et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

A model for the 19th century eruption of Eta Carinae: CSM interaction like a scaled-down Type IIn Supernova

(2013) N. Smith   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

SN 2009ip and SN 2010mc: core-collapse Type IIn supernovae arising from blue supergiants

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

The unprecedented 2012 outburst of SN 2009ip: a luminous blue variable star becomes a true supernova

(2013) Jon C. Mauerhan 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

Rotating massive main-sequence stars

(2011) I. Brott 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

THE DIVERSITY OF MASSIVE STAR OUTBURSTS. I. OBSERVATIONS OF SN2009ip, UGC 2773 OT2009-1, AND THEIR PROGENITORS

(2011) Ryan J. Foley et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ON THE NATURE OF THE PROTOTYPE LUMINOUS BLUE VARIABLE AG CARINAE. II. WITNESSING A MASSIVE STAR EVOLVING CLOSE TO THE EDDINGTON AND BISTABILITY LIMITS

(2011) J. H. Groh et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A revised historical light curve of Eta Carinae and the timing of close periastron encounters

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

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

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

SPECTRAL EVOLUTION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY TYPE IIn SUPERNOVA 2006gy

(2010) Nathan Smith et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Massive binary evolution

(2010) Philipp Podsiadlowski   NEW ASTRONOMY REVIEWS

SPITZERSAGE INFRARED PHOTOMETRY OF MASSIVE STARS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD

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

SN 2008S: A COOL SUPER-EDDINGTON WIND IN A SUPERNOVA IMPOSTOR

(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

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

A blast wave from the 1843 eruption of η Carinae

(2008) Nathan Smith   NATURE