Bonanos 2025: Red Supergiants in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies

Alceste Z. Bonanos Identifications of red supergiants (RSGs) in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies have experienced an exponential increase in recent years, driven by advancements in selection techniques, the continued expansion of archival datasets, and a steady increase in spectroscopic data. This review describes the advances in methodologies and …

de Wit et al. 2025: Investigating episodic mass loss in evolved massive stars: III. Spectroscopy of dusty massive stars in three northern galaxies

S. de Wit, G. Muñoz-Sanchez, G. Maravelias, A.Z. Bonanos, K. Antoniadis, D. García-Álvarez, N. Britavskiy, A. Ruiz, A. Philippopoulou Mass loss in massive stars is crucial to understanding how these stars evolve and explode. Despite increasing evidence indicating its importance, episodic mass loss remains poorly understood. Here we report the …

Maravelias et al. 2025: A machine-learning photometric classifier for massive stars in nearby galaxies II. The catalog

G. Maravelias, A. Z. Bonanos, K. Antoniadis, G. Munoz-Sanchez, E. Christodoulou, S. de Wit, E. Zapartas, K. Kovlakas, F. Tramper, P. Bonfini, S. Avgousti Mass loss is a key aspect of stellar evolution, particularly in evolved massive stars, yet episodic mass loss remains poorly understood. To investigate this, we need …

Maravelias et al. 2023: Discovering New B[e] Supergiants and Candidate Luminous Blue Variables in Nearby Galaxies

Discovering New B[e] Supergiants and Candidate Luminous Blue Variables in Nearby Galaxies Grigoris Maravelias, Stephan de Wit, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Frank Tramper, Gonzalo Munoz-Sanchez and Evangelia Christodoulou Mass loss is one of the key parameters that determine stellar evolution. Despite the progress we have achieved over the last decades we …