Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)

Evolution of stars with 60 and 200 M⊙: predictions for WNh stars in the Milky Way

A. C. Gormaz-Matamala, A. Romagnolo and K. Belczynski
Astronomy & Astrophysics 696 A72 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451565

Growth of massive black holes in FFB galaxies at cosmic dawn

Avishai Dekel, Nicholas C. Stone, Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury, Shmuel Gilbaum, Zhaozhou Li, Nir Mandelker and Frank C. van den Bosch
Astronomy & Astrophysics 695 A97 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452393

Stellar expansion or inflation?

Gautham N. Sabhahit and Jorick S. Vink
Astronomy & Astrophysics 693 A10 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451976

Cygnus OB2 as a test case for particle acceleration in young massive star clusters

S. Menchiari, G. Morlino, E. Amato, N. Bucciantini and M. T. Beltrán
Astronomy & Astrophysics 686 A242 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348817

FROST-CLUSTERS – I. Hierarchical star cluster assembly boosts intermediate-mass black hole formation

Antti Rantala, Thorsten Naab and Natalia Lahén
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 531 (3) 3770 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1413

Mass and wind luminosity of young Galactic open clusters in Gaia DR2

S. Celli, A. Specovius, S. Menchiari, A. Mitchell and G. Morlino
Astronomy & Astrophysics 686 A118 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348541

Very massive stars and nitrogen-emitting galaxies

Jorick S. Vink
Astronomy & Astrophysics 679 L9 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347827

Double black hole mergers in nuclear star clusters: eccentricities, spins, masses, and the growth of massive seeds

Debatri Chattopadhyay, Jakob Stegmann, Fabio Antonini, Jordan Barber and Isobel M Romero-Shaw
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 526 (4) 4908 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3048

Search strategies for supermassive stars in young clusters and application to nearby galaxies

A. Kuruvanthodi, D. Schaerer, M. Messa, et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics 674 A140 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245695

Very massive stars and pair-instability supernovae: mass-loss framework for low metallicity

Gautham N Sabhahit, Jorick S Vink, Andreas A C Sander and Erin R Higgins
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 524 (1) 1529 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1888

Mass-loss implementation and temperature evolution of very massive stars

Gautham N Sabhahit, Jorick S Vink, Erin R Higgins and Andreas A C Sander
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 514 (3) 3736 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1410

The hydrogen clock to infer the upper stellar mass

Erin R Higgins, Jorick S Vink, Gautham N Sabhahit and Andreas A C Sander
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 516 (3) 4052 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2485

EMPRESS. II. Highly Fe-enriched Metal-poor Galaxies with ∼1.0 (Fe/O)⊙ and 0.02 (O/H)⊙: Possible Traces of Supermassive (>300 M ⊙) Stars in Early Galaxies* † ‡

Takashi Kojima, Masami Ouchi, Michael Rauch, Yoshiaki Ono, Kimihiko Nakajima, Yuki Isobe, Seiji Fujimoto, Yuichi Harikane, Takuya Hashimoto, Masao Hayashi, Yutaka Komiyama, Haruka Kusakabe, Ji Hoon Kim, Chien-Hsiu Lee, Shiro Mukae, Tohru Nagao, Masato Onodera, Takatoshi Shibuya, Yuma Sugahara, Masayuki Umemura and Kiyoto Yabe
The Astrophysical Journal 913 (1) 22 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abec3d

sígame v3: Gas Fragmentation in Postprocessing of Cosmological Simulations for More Accurate Infrared Line Emission Modeling

Karen Pardos Olsen, Blakesley Burkhart, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Robin G. Treß, Thomas R. Greve, David Vizgan, Jay Motka, Josh Borrow, Gergö Popping, Romeel Davé, Rowan J. Smith and Desika Narayanan
The Astrophysical Journal 922 (1) 88 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac20d4

Populating the Upper Black Hole Mass Gap through Stellar Collisions in Young Star Clusters

Kyle Kremer, Mario Spera, Devin Becker, Sourav Chatterjee, Ugo N. Di Carlo, Giacomo Fragione, Carl L. Rodriguez, Claire S. Ye and Frederic A. Rasio
The Astrophysical Journal 903 (1) 45 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abb945

Spectral properties and detectability of supermassive stars in protoglobular clusters at high redshift

F. Martins, D. Schaerer, L. Haemmerlé and C. Charbonnel
Astronomy & Astrophysics 633 A9 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936963

Origin of a Massive Hyper-runaway Subgiant Star LAMOST-HVS1: Implication from Gaia and Follow-up Spectroscopy

Kohei Hattori, Monica Valluri, Norberto Castro, Ian U. Roederer, Guillaume Mahler and Gourav Khullar
The Astrophysical Journal 873 (2) 116 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab05c8

Radiation pressure limits on the star formation efficiency and surface density of compact stellar systems

Roland M Crocker, Mark R Krumholz, Todd A Thompson, Holger Baumgardt and Dougal Mackey
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 481 (4) 4895 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2659

Very massive stars: a metallicity-dependent upper-mass limit, slow winds, and the self-enrichment of globular clusters

Jorick S. Vink
Astronomy & Astrophysics 615 A119 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832773

Concurrent formation of supermassive stars and globular clusters: implications for early self-enrichment

Mark Gieles, Corinne Charbonnel, Martin G H Krause, et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 478 (2) 2461 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1059

Blossoms from black hole seeds: properties and early growth regulated by supernova feedback

Mélanie Habouzit, Marta Volonteri and Yohan Dubois
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 468 (4) 3935 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx666

Formation of intermediate-mass black holes through runaway collisions in the first star clusters

Yuya Sakurai, Naoki Yoshida, Michiko S. Fujii and Shingo Hirano
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 472 (2) 1677 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2044

Mass loss and stellar superwinds

Jorick S. Vink
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 375 (2105) 20160269 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0269

Supernova Explosions

David Branch and J. Craig Wheeler
Astronomy and Astrophysics Library, Supernova Explosions 135 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55054-0_8

ORBITAL PARAMETERS FOR THE 250 M⊙ ETA CARINAE BINARY SYSTEM

Amit Kashi and Noam Soker
The Astrophysical Journal 825 (2) 105 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/825/2/105

Astrophysical Black Holes

Michela Mapelli and Alessia Gualandris
Lecture Notes in Physics, Astrophysical Black Holes 905 205 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19416-5_6

Understanding the Epoch of Cosmic Reionization

Miloš Milosavljević and Chalence Safranek-Shrader
Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Understanding the Epoch of Cosmic Reionization 423 65 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21957-8_3

Massive black hole binaries from runaway collisions: the impact of metallicity

Michela Mapelli
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 459 (4) 3432 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw869

Mass ejection by pulsational pair instability in very massive stars and implications for luminous supernovae

Takashi Yoshida, Hideyuki Umeda, Keiichi Maeda and Tatsuo Ishii
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 457 (1) 351 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv3002

How much radioactive nickel does ASASSN-15lh require?

Alexandra Kozyreva, Raphael Hirschi, Sergey Blinnikov and Jacqueline den Hartogh
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 459 (1) L21 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw036

The contribution of young core-collapse supernova remnants to the X-ray emission near quiescent supermassive black holes

A. Rimoldi, E. M. Rossi, E. Costantini and S. Portegies Zwart
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 456 (3) 2537 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2799

Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe

Jorick S. Vink
Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe 412 1 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09596-7_1

The evolution of high-redshift massive black holes

Marta Volonteri, Melanie Habouzit, Fabio Pacucci and Michael Tremmel
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 11 (S319) 72 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921315010005

Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe

Jorick S. Vink
Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe 412 77 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09596-7_4

Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe

Mark R. Krumholz
Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe 412 43 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09596-7_3

Explosion and nucleosynthesis of low-redshift pair-instability supernovae

A. Kozyreva, S.-C. Yoon and N. Langer
Astronomy & Astrophysics 566 A146 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423641

Cosmic backgrounds due to the formation of the first generation of supermassive black holes

P. L. Biermann, B. B. Nath, L. I. Caramete, et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 441 (2) 1147 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu541

The Evolution of Compact Binary Star Systems

Konstantin A. Postnov and Lev R. Yungelson
Living Reviews in Relativity 17 (1) (2014)
https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-2014-3

Type Ic core-collapse supernova explosions evolved from very massive stars

Takashi Yoshida, Shinpei Okita and Hideyuki Umeda
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 438 (4) 3119 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2427

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

J. M. Bestenlehner, G. Gräfener, J. S. Vink, et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics 570 A38 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423643

Clumps in stellar winds

J. S. Vink
ASTRA Proceedings 1 39 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.5194/ap-1-39-2014

Indication for an intermediate-mass black hole in the globular cluster NGC 5286 from kinematics

A. Feldmeier, N. Lützgendorf, N. Neumayer, et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics 554 A63 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321168

Supermassive stars as a source of abundance anomalies of proton-capture elements in globular clusters

P. A. Denissenkov and F. D. A. Hartwick
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 437 (1) L21 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slt133

ARE SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVAE AND LONG GRBs THE PRODUCTS OF DYNAMICAL PROCESSES IN YOUNG DENSE STAR CLUSTERS?

E. P. J. van den Heuvel and S. F. Portegies Zwart
The Astrophysical Journal 779 (2) 114 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/779/2/114

Radiation-driven winds of hot luminous stars XVI. Expanding atmospheres of massive and very massive stars and the evolution of dense stellar clusters

A. W. A. Pauldrach, D. Vanbeveren and T. L. Hoffmann
Astronomy & Astrophysics 538 A75 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117621

Central kinematics of the globular cluster NGC 2808: upper limit on the mass of an intermediate-mass black hole

N. Lützgendorf, M. Kissler-Patig, K. Gebhardt, et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics 542 A129 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219375

Eta Carinae and the Supernova Impostors

Jorick S. Vink
Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Eta Carinae and the Supernova Impostors 384 221 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2275-4_10

From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles

Peter L. Biermann
From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles 71 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5422-5_4

Quark nova imprint in the extreme supernova explosion SN 2006gy

R. Ouyed, M. Kostka, N. Koning, D. A. Leahy and W. Steffen
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 423 (2) 1652 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20986.x

Very Massive Stars in the local Universe

Jorick S. Vink, Alexander Heger, Mark R. Krumholz, et al.
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 10 (H16) 51 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921314004657

Particle Acceleration in Cosmic Plasmas

E. A. Helder, J. Vink, A. M. Bykov, et al.
Space Sciences Series of ISSI, Particle Acceleration in Cosmic Plasmas 45 369 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6455-6_12

Pair-instability supernovae via collision runaway in young dense star clusters

Tony Pan, Abraham Loeb and Daniel Kasen
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 423 (3) 2203 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21030.x

High-redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects - II. The census of BH seeds

B. Devecchi, M. Volonteri, E. M. Rossi, M. Colpi and S. Portegies Zwart
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 421 (2) 1465 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20406.x

Stellar envelope inflation near the Eddington limit

G. Gräfener, S. P. Owocki and J. S. Vink
Astronomy & Astrophysics 538 A40 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117497

The present-day mass function of the Quintuplet cluster based on proper motion membership

B. Hußmann, A. Stolte, W. Brandner, M. Gennaro and A. Liermann
Astronomy & Astrophysics 540 A57 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117637

Identifying stars of mass >150 M⊙ from their eclipse by a binary companion

Tony Pan and Abraham Loeb
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 425 (1) L91 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2012.01308.x

Observational Signatures of Particle Acceleration in Supernova Remnants

E. A. Helder, J. Vink, A. M. Bykov, et al.
Space Science Reviews 173 (1-4) 369 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-012-9919-8

Supersymmetric model for triggering supernova Ia in isolated white dwarfs

Peter L. Biermann and L. Clavelli
Physical Review D 84 (2) (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.023001

Wind modelling of very massive stars up to 300 solar masses

Jorick S. Vink, L. E. Muijres, B. Anthonisse, et al.
Astronomy & Astrophysics 531 A132 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201116614

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

G. Gräfener, J. S. Vink, A. de Koter and N. Langer
Astronomy & Astrophysics 535 A56 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201116701

The demographics of ultraluminous X‐ray sources

D.A. Swartz
Astronomische Nachrichten 332 (4) 341 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201011495

Exploring intermediate and massive black-hole binaries with the Einstein Telescope

Jonathan R. Gair, Ilya Mandel, M. Coleman Miller and Marta Volonteri
General Relativity and Gravitation 43 (2) 485 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-010-1104-3

Ultraluminous X-ray sources in the Chandra and XMM-Newton era

Hua Feng and Roberto Soria
New Astronomy Reviews 55 (5-6) 166 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newar.2011.08.002

H.E.S.S. OBSERVATIONS OF THE GLOBULAR CLUSTERS NGC 6388 AND M15 AND SEARCH FOR A DARK MATTER SIGNAL

A. Abramowski, F. Acero, F. Aharonian, et al.
The Astrophysical Journal 735 (1) 12 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/735/1/12

DYNAMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE YOUNG B-STARS IN THE GALACTIC CENTER

Hagai B. Perets and Alessia Gualandris
The Astrophysical Journal 719 (1) 220 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/719/1/220

Chandra observations of the ULX N10 in the Cartwheel galaxy

Fabio Pizzolato, Anna Wolter and Ginevra Trinchieri
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Young Massive Star Clusters

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ULTRALUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCES IN ARP 147

S. Rappaport, A. Levine, D. Pooley and B. Steinhorn
The Astrophysical Journal 721 (2) 1348 (2010)
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INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES IN EARLY GLOBULAR CLUSTERS

Enrico Vesperini, Stephen L. W. McMillan, Annibale D'Ercole and Francesca D'Antona
The Astrophysical Journal 713 (1) L41 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/713/1/L41

PERIASTRON PASSAGE TRIGGERING OF THE 19TH CENTURY ERUPTIONS OF ETA CARINAE

Amit Kashi and Noam Soker
The Astrophysical Journal 723 (1) 602 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/723/1/602

Discovery of an optical counterpart to the hyperluminous X-ray source in ESO 243-49

Roberto Soria, George K. T. Hau, Alister W. Graham, et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2010)
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The mass function of nearby black hole candidates

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Phenomenological gravitational radiation from rotating stellar collapse to an intermediate mass Kerr black hole

Jin Li and Matthew Benacquista
General Relativity and Gravitation 42 (10) 2511 (2010)
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 396 (1) 570 (2009)
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THE DYNAMICAL EFFECTS OF WHITE DWARF BIRTH KICKS IN GLOBULAR STAR CLUSTERS

John M. Fregeau, Harvey B. Richer, Frederic A. Rasio and Jarrod R. Hurley
The Astrophysical Journal 695 (1) L20 (2009)
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FORMATION OF THE FIRST NUCLEAR CLUSTERS AND MASSIVE BLACK HOLES AT HIGH REDSHIFT

B. Devecchi and M. Volonteri
The Astrophysical Journal 694 (1) 302 (2009)
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ULTRALUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCE CORRELATIONS WITH STAR-FORMING REGIONS

Douglas A. Swartz, Allyn F. Tennant and Roberto Soria
The Astrophysical Journal 703 (1) 159 (2009)
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TOWARD AN ACCURATE DETERMINATION OF PARAMETERS FOR VERY MASSIVE STARS: THE ECLIPSING BINARY LMC-SC1-105

Alceste Z. Bonanos
The Astrophysical Journal 691 (1) 407 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/691/1/407

HD 271791: dynamical versus binary-supernova ejection scenario

V. V. Gvaramadze
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 395 (1) L85 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00648.x

The evolution of massive and very massive stars in clusters

Dany Vanbeveren
New Astronomy Reviews 53 (1-2) 27 (2009)
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The evolution of runaway stellar collision products

E. Glebbeek, E. Gaburov, S. E. de Mink, O. R. Pols and S. F. Portegies Zwart
Astronomy & Astrophysics 497 (1) 255 (2009)
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THE X-RAY POINT-SOURCE POPULATION OF NGC 1365: THE PUZZLE OF TWO HIGHLY-VARIABLE ULTRALUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCES

Iskra V. Strateva and S. Komossa
The Astrophysical Journal 692 (1) 443 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/692/1/443

High-velocity runaway stars from three-body encounters

V. V. Gvaramadze, A. Gualandris and S. Portegies Zwart
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 5 (S266) 413 (2009)
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TROJAN STARS IN THE GALACTIC CENTER

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The Most Massive Core‐Collapse Supernova Progenitors

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Very Broad [O iii ] λλ4959, 5007 Emission from the NGC 4472 Globular Cluster RZ 2109 and Implications for the Mass of Its Black Hole X-Ray Source

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The formation and evolution of the most massive stars

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Around the Pair Instability Valley ? Massive SN Progenitors

Roni Waldman
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Hyperfast pulsars as the remnants of massive stars ejected from young star clusters

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Binary Populations and Stellar Dynamics in Young Clusters

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A runaway collision in a young star cluster as the origin of the brightest supernova

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Blossoms from black hole seeds: properties and early growth regulated by supernova feedback

Formation of intermediate-mass black holes through runaway collisions in the first star clusters

Mass loss and stellar superwinds

Supernova Explosions

ORBITAL PARAMETERS FOR THE 250 M⊙ ETA CARINAE BINARY SYSTEM

Astrophysical Black Holes

Understanding the Epoch of Cosmic Reionization

Massive black hole binaries from runaway collisions: the impact of metallicity

Mass ejection by pulsational pair instability in very massive stars and implications for luminous supernovae

How much radioactive nickel does ASASSN-15lh require?

The contribution of young core-collapse supernova remnants to the X-ray emission near quiescent supermassive black holes

Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe

The evolution of high-redshift massive black holes

Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe

Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe

Explosion and nucleosynthesis of low-redshift pair-instability supernovae

Cosmic backgrounds due to the formation of the first generation of supermassive black holes

The Evolution of Compact Binary Star Systems

Type Ic core-collapse supernova explosions evolved from very massive stars

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Clumps in stellar winds

Indication for an intermediate-mass black hole in the globular cluster NGC 5286 from kinematics

Supermassive stars as a source of abundance anomalies of proton-capture elements in globular clusters

ARE SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVAE AND LONG GRBs THE PRODUCTS OF DYNAMICAL PROCESSES IN YOUNG DENSE STAR CLUSTERS?

Radiation-driven winds of hot luminous stars XVI. Expanding atmospheres of massive and very massive stars and the evolution of dense stellar clusters

Central kinematics of the globular cluster NGC 2808: upper limit on the mass of an intermediate-mass black hole

Eta Carinae and the Supernova Impostors

From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles

Quark nova imprint in the extreme supernova explosion SN 2006gy

Very Massive Stars in the local Universe

Particle Acceleration in Cosmic Plasmas

Pair-instability supernovae via collision runaway in young dense star clusters

High-redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects - II. The census of BH seeds

Stellar envelope inflation near the Eddington limit

The present-day mass function of the Quintuplet cluster based on proper motion membership

Identifying stars of mass >150 M⊙ from their eclipse by a binary companion

Observational Signatures of Particle Acceleration in Supernova Remnants

Supersymmetric model for triggering supernova Ia in isolated white dwarfs

Wind modelling of very massive stars up to 300 solar masses

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

The demographics of ultraluminous X‐ray sources

Exploring intermediate and massive black-hole binaries with the Einstein Telescope

Ultraluminous X-ray sources in the Chandra and XMM-Newton era

H.E.S.S. OBSERVATIONS OF THE GLOBULAR CLUSTERS NGC 6388 AND M15 AND SEARCH FOR A DARK MATTER SIGNAL

DYNAMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE YOUNG B-STARS IN THE GALACTIC CENTER

Chandra observations of the ULX N10 in the Cartwheel galaxy

Young Massive Star Clusters

ULTRALUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCES IN ARP 147

INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES IN EARLY GLOBULAR CLUSTERS

PERIASTRON PASSAGE TRIGGERING OF THE 19TH CENTURY ERUPTIONS OF ETA CARINAE

Discovery of an optical counterpart to the hyperluminous X-ray source in ESO 243-49

The mass function of nearby black hole candidates

Phenomenological gravitational radiation from rotating stellar collapse to an intermediate mass Kerr black hole

On the origin of high-velocity runaway stars

THE DYNAMICAL EFFECTS OF WHITE DWARF BIRTH KICKS IN GLOBULAR STAR CLUSTERS

FORMATION OF THE FIRST NUCLEAR CLUSTERS AND MASSIVE BLACK HOLES AT HIGH REDSHIFT