ERC Starting Grant · 2025
The Role of Binary-Stripped Stars: from Atomic Scales to Cosmic Dawn
A third of all massive stars are predicted to lose their hydrogen-rich envelopes through interaction with a binary companion star, leaving the helium core exposed. These stripped stars are thought to be the main progenitors of hydrogen-poor core collapse supernovae, to constitute two necessary steps in the formation of merging neutron stars, and to provide so copious amounts of hard ionizing radiation that they contributed to cosmic reionization. Despite their importance, it took over half a century until we last year confirmed their predicted existence with observations. This means that theoretical models that previously had few to no observational benchmarks now face reality. 2SStars is…
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