This is the first of a series of papers presenting the Modules for Experiments in Stellar
Astrophysics (MESA) Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) project, a new comprehensive …

Mass loss in red supergiants (RSGs) is generally recognized to be episodic, but mass-loss
prescriptions fail to reflect this. Evolutionary models show that the total amount of mass lost …

We present a sample of 2865 emission-line galaxies with strong nebular emissions in the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 and use this sample to investigate the origin of this …

The mass function for black holes and neutron stars at birth is explored for mass-losing
helium stars. These should resemble, more closely than similar studies of single hydrogen …

ABSTRACT SBS 0335− 052E, one of the most metal-poor (Z∼ 3–4 Z⊙) He ii-emitter
starbursts known in the nearby Universe, is studied using optical VLT/MUSE spectroscopic …

Context. The evolution of massive stars is not fully understood. The relation between
different types of evolved massive stars is not clear, and the role of factors such as binarity …

Despite the many successes that modern massive star evolutionary theory has enjoyed,
reproducing the apparent trend in the relative number of red supergiants (RSGs) and Wolf …

The star-forming galaxies of the Local Group act as our laboratories for testing massive star
evolutionary models. In this review, I briefly summarize what we believe we know about …

In a recent paper, Smith & Tombleson state that the luminous blue variables (LBVs) in the
Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds are isolated; they are not spatially associated with …

Wolf–Rayet stars (WRs) represent the end of a massive star's life as it is about to turn into a
supernova. Obtaining complete samples of such stars across a large range of metallicities …