Talk type: Stars

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    The evolution of massive contact binaries: model predictions for the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way
    The majority of massive stars are born in close binary systems with orbital periods of a few days. At some point during their core-hydrogen burning phase, both...
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    The Evolution of Massive Stars towards their Death: Rotation, Binarity and Mergers.
    Although they are rare and short-lived, massive stars play a major role in Universe. With their large luminosities, strong stellar winds and spectacular...
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    The fate of ionizing radiation from massive stars in star-forming galaxies
    The fate of ionizing radiation from massive stars has fundamental consequences on scales ranging from the physics of circumstellar disks to the ionization state...
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    The GRB-supernova connection. Or is there any?
    Long suspected on theoretical grounds and supported by tantalising observational evidence, the connection between supernovae and gamma-ray bursts was definitely...
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    The impact of Galactic evolution on binary interactions, as shown in hot subdwarf binaries
    Wide hot subdwarf B (sdB) binaries with main-sequence companions are outcomes of stable mass transfer from evolved red giants. The orbits of these binaries show...
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    The integrated galactic IMF - from star clusters to galaxies
    Over the past years observations of young and populous star clusters have shown that the stellar initial mass function (IMF) can be conveniently described by a...
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    The Kepler space mission sheds a new light on variable A- and F-type stars
    The Kepler spacecraft is providing photometric time series with micromagnitude precision for thousands of variable stars. The continuous time-series of...
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    The last asymptotic giant branch star
    All the elements from carbon to uranium present in the Solar System were produced by hundreds to thousands of stars belonging to different stellar generations...
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    The Luminous Blue Variable HR Car Just Got Married!
    Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs) are massive stars caught in a post-main sequence phase, during which they are losing a significant amount of mass. Given the...