Periodic Reporting for period 2 - BinCosmos (The Impact of Massive Binaries Through Cosmic Time)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2019-03-01 do 2020-08-31
A paradigm shift in our thinking about massive stars arrived with the realising that most of massive stars are not alone but member of close binary systems. The central question in BinCosmos is to assess the how bniarity impacts the lives of massive stars and the many roles they play.
The team produced several high impact results related to how binarity affects the statistics of the final explosions of massive stars, the ionizing radiation coming from stellar populations across cosmic time, the role of runaway stars and pair instability explosions and gravitational wave progenitors.
This project was terminated early as the PI was offered a faculty position in the US. Most results could not be completed within the duration of the grant period.
The project concerned fundamental research with no direct practical relevance for society, but it does contribute to endeavors to better understand our Cosmic History and the stars that produced the elements w e are made of.
This project was terminated early as the PI was offered a faculty position in the US and no permission was given to complete the projects that had been started with ERC funding. Most results could not be completed within the duration of the grant period.