Life Cycle of Stars Discipline: Education This guide describes the life cycle of stars and the H-R diagram. It also explains how distances to stars and other objects in the universe are measured.Tags: starvariable starspectraH-R diagramprotostarlife cycle
Massive variable stars in external galaxies The aim of this project is to determine a population of Luminous Blue Variable stars (LBVs) in external galaxies in the Local Group. This is important as this phase of Post Main Sequence (PMS) life is critical in determining the mass of the relativistic remnant left behind after the supernova event. To accomplish this, we will obtain photometric observations of spectroscopic candidates identified in e.g. Massey et al (2007).
