Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars
Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars Research on massive stars is undergoing a period of rapid progress, with long-held convictions being shown to be incomplete. Furthermore the impact of massive…
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Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars
Research on massive stars is undergoing a period of rapid progress, with long-held convictions being shown to be incomplete. Furthermore the impact of massive stars is widely recognized in many areas, as they are often used as tools to interpret the conditions and processes arising in different environments. While these stars are relatively few in number, they are the main driver of chemical and dynamical evolution in galaxies through their stellar winds and explosive deaths in core-collapse supernovae.
These data are now providing a harsh test for the current state-of-the-art theoretical calculations of massive star birth, evolution and death. In parallel, the development of new instrumentation, analysis techniques and dedicated surveys across all possible wavelengths have delivered large amounts of exquisite new data. IAU Symposium 329 covers these topics and is therefore an