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New paper: de Wit et al. 2025: Investigating episodic mass loss in evolved massive stars: III. Spectroscopy of dusty massive stars in three northern galaxies

This is the complementary work to that of Alceste’s published some time ago, covering the southern galaxies. Now it was Stephan and Gonzalo’s turn to lead this the paper for the northern galaxies, observed with the 10.4 m GTC. We managed to classify 122 additional sources, increasing the number of …

New paper: A machine-learning photometric classifier for massive stars in nearby galaxies II. The catalog

Finally…after some years from the initial paper on the method I managed to put everything together to publish the second part of the machine-learning classifier for massive stars in nearby galaxies. This work is actually the application of the classifier to the whole sample of 26 galaxies and about 1.1 …

New paper: Investigating episodic mass loss in evolved massive stars: I. Spectroscopy of dusty massive stars in ten southern galaxies

A paper that collectively presents the results from our intensive observing campaign in the ASSESS project, focusing on the southern galaxies (a forthcoming paper will deal with the northern ones). Investigating episodic mass loss in evolved massive stars: I. Spectroscopy of dusty massive stars in ten southern galaxies A.Z. Bonanos, …

How does the distance affects the stars we see?

With increasing distance fainter stars, and therefore those of lower luminosity, older populations, become less observable. This means that with increasing distance we actually probe different parts of a Color-Magnitude diagram (CMD), which mainly consists of the brightest and more evolved massive stars. This is best shown in this figure …