Munoz-Sanchez et al. 2024: Episodic mass loss in the very luminous red supergiant [W60] B90 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

G. Munoz-Sanchez, S. de Wit , A. Z. Bonanos, K. Antoniadis, K. Boutsia, P. Boumis, E. Christodoulou, M. Kalitsounaki, and A. Udalski Context. Despite mounting evidence that extreme red supergiants (RSGs) undergo episodic mass-loss events, their role in RSG evolution remains uncertain. Critical questions remain unanswered, such as whether or …

ASSESS meets Alex de Koter, Emily Levesque, and Henry Lamers

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 …

Observing from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile

Gonzalo Munoz-Sanchez and Evangelia Christodoulou traveled this November to Chile, and more specifically to the ESO’s Very Large Telescope facility in Paranal. The purpose of their trip was to get the data for a project that was awarded ~1.5 nights at the very competitive FORS2 instrument. The goal was to …

Bostroem et al. 2023: Early Spectroscopy and Dense Circumstellar Medium Interaction in SN 2023ixf

Early Spectroscopy and Dense Circumstellar Medium Interaction in SN 2023ixf K. Azalee Bostroem, Jeniveve Pearson, Manisha Shrestha, David J. Sand, Stefano Valenti, Saurabh W. Jha, Jennifer E. Andrews, Nathan Smith, Giacomo Terreran, Elizabeth Green, Yize Dong, Michael Lundquist, Joshua Haislip, Emily T. Hoang, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Daryl Janzen, Jacob E. Jencson, …

de Wit et al. 2022: Properties of luminous red supergiants

Properties of luminous red supergiant stars in the Magellanic Clouds S. de Wit, A.Z. Bonanos, F. Tramper, M. Yang, G. Maravelias, K. Boutsia, N. Britavskiy, and E. Zapartas There is evidence that some red supergiants (RSGs) experience short lived phases of extreme mass loss, producing copious amounts of dust. These …