ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
The Ionising Flux of Very Massive Stars
Now that JWST has been launched, the Early Universe is finally opening up. What has already transpired is that we do not understand star formation at high redshift. Furthermore, with the emergence of gravitational waves, surprisingly heavy black holes have been revealed, even in previous "forbidden" mass zones. What is crucial to make progress is a massive-star framework that works Locally and can be applied to the distant Universe -- allowing to test my hypothesis that very massive stars (VMS) re-ionised it. Today, such a framework does not exist. One of the reasons is that historically observations of massive stars have been rare, but with the emergence of large spectroscopic datasets,…
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