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Massive Stars

Massive Stars is a class of stars characterized by having initial masses exceeding approximately eight solar masses, distinguished from lower-mass stars by their dominant evolution pathways, higher luminosities, and ultimate fates as supernovae or compact remnants.

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MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA)

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2010 · 4.3K citations · Full text

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On Massive Neutron Cores

J. Robert Oppenheimer, G. M. Volkoff · Physical Review · 1939 · 4K citations

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A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary

John Antoniadis, P. C. C. Freire, Norbert Wex et al. · Science · 2013 · 3.8K citations · Full text

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The Evolution and Explosion of Massive Stars. II. Explosive Hydrodynamics and Nucleosynthesis

S. E. Woosley, T. A. Weaver · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 1995 · 3.8K citations

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The EAGLE project: simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments

Joop Schaye, Robert A. Crain, R. G. Bower et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · 3.6K citations · Full text

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    Armagh Observatory & Planetarium, United Kingdom

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    G. Meynet

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

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    S. E. de Mink

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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