The impact of Massive Binary Stars through Cosmic Times

Project Information

BinCosmos

Grant agreement ID: 661502

DOI 10.3030/661502

Project closed

EC signature date 9 March 2015

Start date 1 April 2015

End date 31 March 2017

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 165 598,80

EU contribution € 165 598,80

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (25)

New constraints on the star formation history of the star cluster NGC 1856

Author(s): M. Correnti, P. Goudfrooij, T. H. Puzia, S. E. de Mink
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 450/3, 2015, Page(s) 3054-3068, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv874

Large proper motion of the Thorne–Żytkow object candidate HV 2112 reveals its likely nature as foreground Galactic S-star

Author(s): Thomas J. Maccarone, Selma E. de Mink
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Issue 458/1, 2016, Page(s) L1-L5, ISSN 1745-3933
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw004

MERGER RATES OF DOUBLE NEUTRON STARS AND STELLAR ORIGIN BLACK HOLES: THE IMPACT OF INITIAL CONDITIONS ON BINARY EVOLUTION PREDICTIONS

Author(s): S. E. de Mink, K. Belczynski
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 814/1, 2015, Page(s) 58, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/814/1/58

DISCOVERY OF THE MASSIVE OVERCONTACT BINARY VFTS 352: EVIDENCE FOR ENHANCED INTERNAL MIXING

Author(s): L. A. Almeida, H. Sana, S. E. de Mink, F. Tramper, I. Soszyn´ski, N. Langer, R. H. Barbá, M. Cantiello, A. Damineli, A. de Koter, M. Garcia, G. Gräfener, A. Herrero, I. Howarth, J. Maíz Apellániz, C. Norman, O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo, J. S. Vink
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 812/2, 2015, Page(s) 102, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/102

LEGUS DISCOVERY OF A LIGHT ECHO AROUND SUPERNOVA 2012aw

Author(s): Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Janice C. Lee, Jay Anderson, Jennifer E. Andrews, Daniela Calzetti, Stacey N. Bright, Leonardo Ubeda, Linda J. Smith, Elena Sabbi, Eva K. Grebel, Artemio Herrero, Selma E. de Mink
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 806/2, 2015, Page(s) 195, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/806/2/195

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Author(s): P. R. Dunstall, P. L. Dufton, H. Sana, C. J. Evans, I. D. Howarth, S. Simón-Díaz, S. E. de Mink, N. Langer, J. Maíz Apellániz, W. D. Taylor
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 580, 2015, Page(s) A93, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526192

On the formation and evolution of the first Be star in a black hole binary MWC 656

Author(s): M. Grudzinska, K. Belczynski, J. Casares, S. E. de Mink, J. Ziolkowski, I. Negueruela, M. Ribó, I. Ribas, J. M. Paredes, A. Herrero, M. Benacquista
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 452/3, 2015, Page(s) 2773-2787, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1419

Low-metallicity massive single stars with rotation

Author(s): Dorottya Szécsi, Norbert Langer, Sung-Chul Yoon, Debashis Sanyal, Selma de Mink, Christopher J. Evans, Tyl Dermine
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 581, 2015, Page(s) A15, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526617

Is the massive star cluster Westerlund 2 double? - A high resolution multi-band survey with the Hubble Space Telescope

Author(s): Peter Zeidler, Antonella Nota, Elena Sabbi, Eva K. Grebel, Monica Tosi, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Anna Pasquali, Carol Christian, Selma E. de Mink
Published in: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Issue 12/S316, 2015, Page(s) 55-60, ISSN 1743-9213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/S1743921315008972

The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring

Author(s): L. A. Almeida, H. Sana, W. Taylor, R. Barbá, A. Z. Bonanos, P. Crowther, A. Damineli, A. de Koter, S. E. de Mink, C. J. Evans, M. Gieles, N. J. Grin, V. Hénault-Brunet, N. Langer, D. Lennon, S. Lockwood, J. Maíz Apellániz, A. F. J. Moffat, C. Neijssel, C. Norman, O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo, N. D. Richardson, A. Schootemeijer, T. Shenar, I. Soszyński, F. Tramper, J. S. Vink
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 598, 2017, Page(s) A84, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629844

Ejection of the Massive Hydrogen-rich Envelope Timed with the Collapse of the Stripped SN 2014C

Author(s): Raffaella Margutti, A. Kamble, D. Milisavljevic, E. Zapartas, S. E. de Mink, M. Drout, R. Chornock, G. Risaliti, B. A. Zauderer, M. Bietenholz, M. Cantiello, S. Chakraborti, L. Chomiuk, W. Fong, B. Grefenstette, C. Guidorzi, R. Kirshner, J. T. Parrent, D. Patnaude, A. M. Soderberg, N. C. Gehrels, F. Harrison
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 835/2, 2017, Page(s) 140, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/140

A comprehensive comparative test of seven widely used spectral synthesis models against multi-band photometry of young massive-star clusters

Author(s): A. Wofford, S. Charlot, G. Bruzual, J. J. Eldridge, D. Calzetti, A. Adamo, M. Cignoni, S. E. de Mink, D. A. Gouliermis, K. Grasha, E. K. Grebel, J. C. Lee, G. Östlin, L. J. Smith, L. Ubeda, E. Zackrisson
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 457/4, 2016, Page(s) 4296-4322, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw150

The chemically homogeneous evolutionary channel for binary black hole mergers: rates and properties of gravitational-wave events detectable by advanced LIGO

Author(s): S. E. de Mink, I. Mandel
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 460/4, 2016, Page(s) 3545-3553, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1219

Formation of the first three gravitational-wave observations through isolated binary evolution

Author(s): Simon Stevenson, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Ilya Mandel, Jim W. Barrett, Coenraad J. Neijssel, David Perkins, Selma E. de Mink
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 8, 2017, Page(s) 14906, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14906

The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope /STIS. I. Far-ultraviolet spectroscopic census and the origin of He ii λ1640 in young star clusters

Author(s): Paul A. Crowther, S. M. Caballero-Nieves, K. A. Bostroem, J. Maíz Apellániz, F. R. N. Schneider, N. R. Walborn, C. R. Angus, I. Brott, A. Bonanos, A. de Koter, S. E. de Mink, C. J. Evans, G. Gräfener, A. Herrero, I. D. Howarth, N. Langer, D. J. Lennon, J. Puls, H. Sana, J. S. Vink
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 458/1, 2016, Page(s) 624-659, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw273

A HIGH-RESOLUTION MULTIBAND SURVEY OF WESTERLUND 2 WITH THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE . I. IS THE MASSIVE STAR CLUSTER DOUBLE?

Author(s): Peter Zeidler, Elena Sabbi, Antonella Nota, Eva K. Grebel, Monica Tosi, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Anna Pasquali, Carol Christian, Selma E. de Mink, Leonardo Ubeda
Published in: The Astronomical Journal, Issue 150/3, 2015, Page(s) 78, ISSN 1538-3881
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/78

CONSTRAINTS ON THE BINARY COMPANION TO THE SN Ic 1994I PROGENITOR

Author(s): Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Selma E. de Mink, Emmanouil Zapartas
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 818/1, 2016, Page(s) 75, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/818/1/75

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Author(s): N. J. Grin, O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo, A. de Koter, H. Sana, J. Puls, I. Brott, P. A. Crowther, P. L. Dufton, C. J. Evans, G. Gräfener, A. Herrero, N. Langer, D. J. Lennon, J. Th. van Loon, N. Markova, S. E. de Mink, F. Najarro, F. R. N. Schneider, W. D. Taylor, F. Tramper, J. S. Vink, N. R. Walborn
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 600, 2017, Page(s) A82, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629225

HUBBLE TARANTULA TREASURY PROJECT. III. PHOTOMETRIC CATALOG AND RESULTING CONSTRAINTS ON THE PROGRESSION OF STAR FORMATION IN THE 30 DORADUS REGION

Author(s): E. Sabbi, D. J. Lennon, J. Anderson, M. Cignoni, R. P. van der Marel, D. Zaritsky, G. De Marchi, N. Panagia, D. A. Gouliermis, E. K. Grebel, J. S. Gallagher III, L. J. Smith, H. Sana, A. Aloisi, M. Tosi, C. J. Evans, H. Arab, M. Boyer, S. E. de Mink, K. Gordon, A. M. Koekemoer, S. S. Larsen, J. E. Ryon, P. Zeidler
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Issue 222/1, 2016, Page(s) 11, ISSN 1538-4365
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/0067-0049/222/1/11

Controversial age spreads from the main sequence turn-off and red clump in intermediate-age clusters in the LMC

Author(s): F. Niederhofer, N. Bastian, V. Kozhurina-Platais, M. Hilker, S. E. de Mink, I. Cabrera-Ziri, C. Li, B. Ercolano
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 586, 2016, Page(s) A148, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526484

THE BRIGHTEST YOUNG STAR CLUSTERS IN NGC 5253

Author(s): D. Calzetti, K. E. Johnson, A. Adamo, J. S. Gallagher III, J. E. Andrews, L. J. Smith, G. C. Clayton, J. C. Lee, E. Sabbi, L. Ubeda, H. Kim, J. E. Ryon, D. Thilker, S. N. Bright, E. Zackrisson, R. C. Kennicutt, S. E. de Mink, B. C. Whitmore, A. Aloisi, R. Chandar, M. Cignoni, D. Cook, D. A. Dale, B. G. Elmegreen, D. M. Elmegreen, A. S. Evans, M. Fumagalli, D. A. Gouliermis, K. Grasha, E. K. Grebel
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 811/2, 2015, Page(s) 75, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/811/2/75

EVOLUTION OF MASS FUNCTIONS OF COEVAL STARS THROUGH WIND-MASS LOSS AND BINARY INTERACTIONS

Author(s): F. R. N. Schneider, R. G. Izzard, N. Langer, S. E. de Mink
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 805/1, 2015, Page(s) 20, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/805/1/20

Massive stars on the verge of exploding: the properties of oxygen sequence Wolf-Rayet stars

Author(s): F. Tramper, S. M. Straal, D. Sanyal, H. Sana, A. de Koter, G. Gräfener, N. Langer, J. S. Vink, S. E. de Mink, L. Kaper
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 581, 2015, Page(s) A110, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425390

A high fraction of Be stars in young massive clusters: evidence for a large population of near-critically rotating stars

Author(s): N. Bastian, I. Cabrera-Ziri, F. Niederhofer, S. de Mink, C. Georgy, D. Baade, M. Correnti, C. Usher, M. Romaniello
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 465/4, 2016, Page(s) 4795-4799, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3042

Merging binary black holes formed through chemically homogeneous evolution in short-period stellar binaries

Author(s): Ilya Mandel, Selma E. de Mink
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 458/3, 2016, Page(s) 2634-2647, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw379