Reprint

Luminous Stars in Nearby Galaxies

Edited by
July 2020
212 pages
  • ISBN978-3-03936-280-6 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-03936-281-3 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Luminous Stars in Nearby Galaxies that was published in

Physical Sciences
Summary

Studies on the populations of luminous stars in nearby resolved galaxies have revealed a complex distribution in the luminosity–temperature plane (the HR diagram). The fundamentals of massive star evolution are mostly understood, but the roles of mass loss, episodic mass loss, rotation, and binarity are still in question. Moreover, the final stages of these stars of different masses and their possible relation to each other are not understood. The purpose of this volume is to provide a current review of the different populations of evolved massive stars. The emphasis is on massive stars in the Local Group, the Magellanic Clouds, and the nearby spirals M31 and M33.

Format
  • Hardback
License and Copyright
© 2020 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
massive stars; Wolf–Rayet stars; local group galaxies; stellar evolution; massive stars; local group; supergiants; Magellanic Clouds; M31; M33; galaxies: individual (M 33); stars: individual (GR 290, M 33 V0532); stars: variables: S Doradus; stars: Wolf-Rayet; stars: evolution; stars: winds, outflows; stars: massive; stars: emission line, Be; supergiants; stars: winds, outflows; circumstellar matter; galaxies; star formation–galaxies; star clusters; general–open clusters and associations; individual; 30 Doradus–stars; massive–stars; early-type; evolved stars; Yellow Hypergiants; Red Supergiants; stellar mass loss; Eddington Limit; eruption; supernova impostor; LBV; Luminous Blue Variable; stellar outflow; strange modes; iron opacity; bistability jump; inflation; Luminous Blue Variables; giant eruption; massive stars; stellar population; Wolf-Rayet stars; Eddington limit; mass loss rate; nebulae of Luminous Blue Variable; Supernova impostors, bistability limit

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