The evolution of massive stars: bridging the gap in the Local Group

Philip Massey; Kathryn F Neugent; Emily M Levesque

doi:10.1098/rsta.2016.0267

The evolution of massive stars: bridging the gap in the Local Group

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2017 Oct 28;375(2105):20160267. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0267.

Authors

Philip Massey^{1

2}, Kathryn F Neugent^{3

4}, Emily M Levesque⁴

Affiliations

¹ Lowell Observatory, 1400 W Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA phil.massey@lowell.edu.
² Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 6010, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6010, USA.
³ Lowell Observatory, 1400 W Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA.
⁴ Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, PO Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

Abstract

The nearby galaxies of the Local Group can act as our laboratories in helping to bridge the gap between theory and observations. In this review, we will describe the complications of identifying samples of OB stars, yellow and red supergiants, and Wolf-Rayet stars, and what we have so far learned from these studies.This article is part of the themed issue 'Bridging the gap: from massive stars to supernovae'.

Keywords: Local Group; stars: evolution; stars: massive; stars: supergiants.

Publication types

Review