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The Impact of Massive Binaries Through Cosmic Time

Project information

BinCosmos

Grant agreement ID: 714063

Status

Grant agreement terminated

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2022

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 1 926 634
EU contribution

€ 1 926 634

Hosted by:

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Netherlands

Objective

Massive stars play many key roles in Astrophysics. As COSMIC ENGINES they transformed the pristine Universe left after the Big Bang into our modern Universe. We use massive stars, their explosions and products as COSMIC PROBES to study the conditions in the distant Universe and the extreme physics inaccessible at earth. Models of massive stars are thus widely applied. A central common assumption is that massive stars are non-rotating single objects, in stark contrast with new data. Recent studies show that majority (70% according to our data) will experience severe interaction with a companion (Sana, de Mink et al. Science 2012).

I propose to conduct the most ambitious and extensive exploration to date of the effects of binarity and rotation on the lives and fates of massive stars to (I) transform our understanding of the complex physical processes and how they operate in the vast parameter space and (II) explore the cosmological implications after calibrating and verifying the models. To achieve this ambitious objective I will use an innovative computational approach that combines the strength of two highly complementary codes and seek direct confrontation with observations to overcome the computational challenges that inhibited previous work.

This timely project will provide the urgent theory framework needed for interpretation and guiding of observing programs with the new facilities (JWST, LSST, aLIGO/VIRGO). Public release of the model grids and code will ensure wide impact of this project. I am in the unique position to successfully lead this project because of my (i) extensive experience modeling the complex physical processes, (ii) leading role in introducing large statistical simulations in the massive star community and (iii) direct involvement in surveys that will be used in this project.

Field of Science

big bang

astrophysics

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Topic(s)

ERC-2016-STG - ERC Starting Grant

Call for proposal

ERC-2016-STG

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Funding Scheme

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

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Host institution

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Address

Spui 21
1012wx Amsterdam

Netherlands

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU Contribution

€ 1 926 634

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EU Contribution

€ 1 926 634

Project information

BinCosmos

Grant agreement ID: 714063

Status

Grant agreement terminated

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2022

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 1 926 634
EU contribution

€ 1 926 634

Hosted by:

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Netherlands

Project information

BinCosmos

Grant agreement ID: 714063

Status

Grant agreement terminated

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2022

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 1 926 634
EU contribution

€ 1 926 634

Hosted by:

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Netherlands

Project information

BinCosmos

Grant agreement ID: 714063

Status

Grant agreement terminated

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2022

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 1 926 634
EU contribution

€ 1 926 634

Hosted by:

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Project information

BinCosmos

Grant agreement ID: 714063

Status

Grant agreement terminated

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2022

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 1 926 634
EU contribution

€ 1 926 634

Hosted by:

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Netherlands

Deliverables

Deliverables not available

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Host galaxies of SNe Ic-BL with and without long gamma-ray bursts

Author(s): J. Japelj, S. D. Vergani, R. Salvaterra, M. Renzo, E. Zapartas, S. E. de Mink, L. Kaper, S. Zibetti

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 617, 2018, Page(s) A105, ISSN 0004-6361

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833209

On the formation history of Galactic double neutron stars

Author(s): Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Coenraad J Neijssel, Simon Stevenson, Jim W Barrett, Krzysztof Belczynski, Stephen Justham, Selma E de Mink, Bernhard Müller, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Mathieu Renzo, Dorottya Szécsi, Ilya Mandel

Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 481/3, 2018, Page(s) 4009-4029, ISSN 0035-8711

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2463

Clues about the scarcity of stripped-envelope stars from the evolutionary state of the sdO+Be binary system φ Persei

Author(s): A. Schootemeijer, Y. Götberg, S. E. de Mink, D. Gies, E. Zapartas

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 615, 2018, Page(s) A30, ISSN 0004-6361

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731194

Response to Comment on “An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst”

Author(s): Fabian R. N. Schneider, Hugues Sana, Christopher J. Evans, Joachim M. Bestenlehner, Norberto Castro, Luca Fossati, Götz Gräfener, Norbert Langer, Oscar H. Ramírez-Agudelo, Carolina Sabín-Sanjulián, Sergio Simón-Díaz, Frank Tramper, Paul A. Crowther, Alexander de Koter, Selma E. de Mink, Philip L. Dufton, Miriam Garcia, Mark Gieles, Vincent Hénault-Brunet, Artemio Herrero, Robert G. Izzard, Venu Kalari, Danny J. Lennon, Jesús Maíz Apellániz, Nevy Markova, Francisco Najarro, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Joachim Puls, William D. Taylor, Jacco Th. van Loon, Jorick S. Vink, Colin Norman

Published in: Science, Issue 361/6400, 2018, Page(s) eaat7032, ISSN 0036-8075

DOI: 10.1126/science.aat7032

Gaia DR2 reveals a very massive runaway star ejected from R136

Author(s): D. J. Lennon, C. J. Evans, R. P. van der Marel, J. Anderson, I. Platais, A. Herrero, S. E. de Mink, H. Sana, E. Sabbi, L. R. Bedin, P. A. Crowther, N. Langer, M. Ramos Lerate, A. del Pino, M. Renzo, S. Simón-Díaz, F. R. N. Schneider

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 619, 2018, Page(s) A78, ISSN 0004-6361

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833465

An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst

Author(s): F. R. N. Schneider, H. Sana, C. J. Evans, J. M. Bestenlehner, N. Castro, L. Fossati, G. Gräfener, N. Langer, O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo, C. Sabín-Sanjulián, S. Simón-Díaz, F. Tramper, P. A. Crowther, A. de Koter, S. E. de Mink, P. L. Dufton, M. Garcia, M. Gieles, V. Hénault-Brunet, A. Herrero, R. G. Izzard, V. Kalari, D. J. Lennon, J. Maíz Apellániz, N. Markova, F. Najarro, Ph. Podsiadlowski, J. Puls, W. D. Taylor, J. Th. van Loon, J. S. Vink, C. Norman

Published in: Science, Issue 359/6371, 2018, Page(s) 69-71, ISSN 0036-8075

DOI: 10.1126/science.aan0106

Forming short-period Wolf–Rayet X-ray binaries and double black holes through stable mass transfer

Author(s): E. P. J. van den Heuvel, S. F. Portegies Zwart, S. E. de Mink

Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 471/4, 2017, Page(s) 4256-4264, ISSN 0035-8711

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1430

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Author(s): F. R. N. Schneider, O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo, F. Tramper, J. M. Bestenlehner, N. Castro, H. Sana, C. J. Evans, C. Sabín-Sanjulián, S. Simón-Díaz, N. Langer, L. Fossati, G. Gräfener, P. A. Crowther, S. E. de Mink, A. de Koter, M. Gieles, A. Herrero, R. G. Izzard, V. Kalari, R. S. Klessen, D. J. Lennon, L. Mahy, J. Maíz Apellániz, N. Markova, J. Th. van Loon, J. S. Vink, N. R. Walborn

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 618, 2018, Page(s) A73, ISSN 0004-6361

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833433

Ultraviolet Detection of the Binary Companion to the Type IIb SN 2001ig

Author(s): Stuart D. Ryder, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Ori D. Fox, Emmanouil Zapartas, Selma E. de Mink, Nathan Smith, Emily Brunsden, K. Azalee Bostroem, Alexei V. Filippenko, Isaac Shivvers, WeiKang Zheng

Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 856/1, 2018, Page(s) 83, ISSN 1538-4357

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaaf1e

Massive runaway and walkaway stars

Author(s): M. Renzo, E. Zapartas, S. E. de Mink, Y. Götberg, S. Justham, R. J. Farmer, R. G. Izzard, S. Toonen, H. Sana

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 624, 2019, Page(s) A66, ISSN 0004-6361

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833297

Ionizing spectra of stars that lose their envelope through interaction with a binary companion: role of metallicity

Author(s): Y. Götberg, S. E. de Mink, J. H. Groh

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 608, 2017, Page(s) A11, ISSN 0004-6361

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730472

Space astrometry of the very massive ∼150 M⊙ candidate runaway star VFTS682

Author(s): M Renzo, S E de Mink, D J Lennon, I Platais, R P van der Marel, E Laplace, J M Bestenlehner, C J Evans, V Hénault-Brunet, S Justham, A de Koter, N Langer, F Najarro, F R N Schneider, J S Vink

Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Issue 482/1, 2018, Page(s) L102-L106, ISSN 1745-3933

DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/sly194

No surviving non-compact stellar companion to Cassiopeia A

Author(s): Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf, Tuan Do, Selma E. de Mink, Ylva Götberg, Dan Milisavljevic, Emmanouil Zapartas, Mathieu Renzo, Stephen Justham, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Robert A. Fesen

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 623, 2019, Page(s) A34, ISSN 0004-6361

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201732206

HST Astrometry in the 30 Doradus Region. II. Runaway Stars from New Proper Motions in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Author(s): Imants Platais, Daniel J. Lennon, Roeland P. van der Marel, Andrea Bellini, Elena Sabbi, Laura L. Watkins, Sangmo T. Sohn, Nolan R. Walborn, Luigi R. Bedin, Christopher J. Evans, Selma E. de Mink, Hugues Sana, Artemio Herrero, Norbert Langer, Paul Crowther

Published in: The Astronomical Journal, Issue 156/3, 2018, Page(s) 98, ISSN 1538-3881

DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aad280

Extreme isolation of WN3/O3 stars and implications for their evolutionary origin as the elusive stripped binaries

Author(s): Nathan Smith, Ylva Götberg, Selma E de Mink

Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 475/1, 2017, Page(s) 772-782, ISSN 0035-8711

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3181

Spectral models for binary products: Unifying subdwarfs and Wolf-Rayet stars as a sequence of stripped-envelope stars

Author(s): Y. Götberg, S. E. de Mink, J. H. Groh, T. Kupfer, P. A. Crowther, E. Zapartas, M. Renzo

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 615, 2018, Page(s) A78, ISSN 0004-6361

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201732274

Project information

BinCosmos

Grant agreement ID: 714063

Status

Grant agreement terminated

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2022

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 1 926 634
EU contribution

€ 1 926 634

Hosted by:

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Project information

BinCosmos

Grant agreement ID: 714063

Status

Grant agreement terminated

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2022

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 1 926 634
EU contribution

€ 1 926 634

Hosted by:

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Netherlands

Project information

BinCosmos

Grant agreement ID: 714063

Status

Grant agreement terminated

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2022

Funded under:

H2020-EU.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 1 926 634
EU contribution

€ 1 926 634

Hosted by:

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

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