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The Astrophysical Journal 894 (1) 36 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7dc7

Unlocking Galactic Wolf–Rayet stars with Gaia DR2 – I. Distances and absolute magnitudes

Paul A Crowther and Gemma Rate
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493 (1) 1512 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3614

The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS – II. Physical properties of the most massive stars in R136

Joachim M Bestenlehner, Paul A Crowther, Saida M Caballero-Nieves, et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 499 (2) 1918 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2801

Why binary interaction does not necessarily dominate the formation of Wolf-Rayet stars at low metallicity

T. Shenar, A. Gilkis, J. S. Vink, H. Sana and A. A. C. Sander
Astronomy & Astrophysics 634 A79 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936948

Helium and nitrogen enrichment in massive main-sequence stars: mechanisms and implications for the origin of WNL stars

Arpita Roy, Ralph S Sutherland, Mark R Krumholz, Alexander Heger and Michael A Dopita
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 494 (3) 3861 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa781