The art of modeling stellar mergers and the case of the B[e] supergiant R4 in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Most massive stars exchange mass with a companion, leading to evolution which is altered drastically from that expected of stars in isolation. Such systems result from unusual binary evolution pathways and can place stringent constraints on the physics of these interactions. We use the R4 binary sys...

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Hauptverfasser: Wu, Samantha (VerfasserIn) , Schneider, Fabian (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2020 September 21
In: The astrophysical journal
Year: 2020, Jahrgang: 901, Heft: 1
ISSN:1538-4357
DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/abaf48
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abaf48
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Verfasserangaben:Samantha Wu, Rosa Wallace Everson, Fabian R.N. Schneider, Philipp Podsiadlowski, and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

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