High-mass stars in clusters and associations
Ignacio Negueruela (University of Alicante)
TL;DR
This review discusses how open clusters serve as key laboratories for studying high-mass stars, focusing on their evolution, mass limits, and supernova progenitors, providing insights into stellar and galactic evolution.
Contribution
It offers a personal selection of current research topics that utilize open clusters to understand high-mass star properties and evolution.
Findings
Evidence for an upper mass limit of stars
Insights into the evolutionary stages of blue supergiants
Characterization of supernova progenitors
Abstract
High-mass stars are major players in the chemical and dynamical evolution of galaxies. Open clusters and associations represent the natural laboratories to study their evolution. In this review, I will present a personal selection of current research topics that highlight the use of open clusters to constrain different properties of high-mass stars, such as the possible existence of an upper limit for the mass of a star, the evolutionary stage of blue supergiants or the characterisation of supernova progenitors.
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Taxonomy
TopicsStellar, planetary, and galactic studies · Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies · Astronomy and Astrophysical Research