This year VFTS (VLT-FLAMES TaranTula Survey) 2024 meeting took place on Sep 16-18, in Madrid (Spain). That was another great opportunity for our PhD students to communicate their results and receive valuable feedback from some of the world experts in the field. In particular Gonzalo (Munoz-Sanchez) presented “Episodic mass loss …
IAU G2 has initiated a series of online talks on massive stars. On Thursday Sep 26 (2024) Alceste was invited to give seminar talk on our latest results in ASSESS. “Episodic Mass Loss in Evolved Massive Stars: Insights from the ASSESS project“ Abstract: Episodic mass loss is not understood theoretically, …
During the XXXII IAU General Assembly in South Africa the Focus Meeting 4: Bridging the final stages of massive stars to supernovae and transients (13-14 August 2024) had two contributions form the ASSESS team. Alceste was invited to provide an overview for variability in massive stars, while Kostas had a …
Gonzalo Munoz-Sanchez arrived in Crete way in advance of the 3rd Supernova Remnants conference. That gave him the opportunity to present at the Institute of Astrophysics (FORTH) our latest results on some extreme red supergiants we have encountered during the ASSESS project. “Episodic mass loss in two evolved Red Supergiants …
The International Conference on the Physics of Extreme Massive Stars took place on June 24-28 (2024) in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. That was a great opportunity for our PhD students Gonzalo and Evangelia to present some of our most recent results in an international conference focused on topics such …
Between 9 – 15 of June (2024) the ASSESS team was in Crete to help with the materialization of the third iteration of Supernova Remnants conference, which becomes probably the most important point of reference for this particular field. However, it also intersects with ours since our targets of interest …
Kostas was invited on June 18 to give a (remote) “Astrophysics talk” on his latest result about mass-loss rate of RSGs at the Observatory of Bologna of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics.
A few weeks ago (May 14, 2024), Stefan successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Physical parameters of red supergiants in nearby galaxies” which summarized his work over the last four years within the ASSESS project. This has resulted already in two major publications as first author (one published, one accepted) …
Our successful record of observing proposal continues also in 2024! We managed to obtain highly competitive observing time in two of the largest facilities in the world. We are going to use the FORS2 instrument at 8.2m ESO/VLT, as well as OSIRIS at 10.4m GTC. The granted time is ~17.5 …
As we are actively working on a series of forthcoming papers, we are meticulously refining the final stages of data analysis and interpretation. Especially when encountering new and exciting results we must be careful to not overlook any potential issues. While our expertise in Red Supergiants is well-established, seeking additional …
