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Paper: The Brief Lives of Massive Stars as Witnessed by Interferometry
Volume: 487, Resolving The Future Of Astronomy With Long-Baseline Interferometry
Page: 237
Authors: Hummel, C.
Abstract: Massive stars present the newest and perhaps most challenging opportunity for long baseline interferometry to excel. Large distances require high angular resolution both to study the means of accreting enough mass in a short time and to split new-born multiples into their components for the determination of their fundamental parameters. Dust obscuration of young stellar objects requires interferometry in the mid-infrared, while post-main-sequence stellar phases require high-precision measurements to challenge stellar evolution models. I will summarize my recent work on modeling mid-IR observations of a massive YSO in NGC 3603, and on the derivation of masses and luminosities of a massive hot supergiant star in another star-forming region in Orion. Challenges presented themselves when constraining the geometry of a hypothetical accretion disk as well as obtaining spectroscopy matching the interferometric precision when working with only a few photospheric lines. As a rapidly evolving application of interferometry, massive stars have a bright future.
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