The evolution of rotating very massive stars with LMC composition

2014/11/10 by K. Köhler, N. Langer, A. de Koter +8 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Angular momentum #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Large Magellanic Cloud #Stars #Stellar evolution #Stellar mass #Stellar mass loss #Stellar rotation #Stellar structure #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Wolf–Rayet star #astro-ph.SR

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201424356

21 pages, 25 figures

openalex publication_date 2014/11/10 · arxiv created 2015/01/15 · arxiv updated 2015/01/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Context. With growing evidence for the existence of very massive stars at subsolar metallicity, there is an increased need for corresponding stellar evolution models.

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