You're Gonna Need a Bigger Core: Calibrating Massive Star Models against Galactic OB-type Stars

arXiv:2608.02540 · astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-08-03 · Read on arXiv

Thibault Lechien, Selma E. de Mink, Stephen Justham, Abel de Burgos, Ruggero Valli, Sergio Simón-Díaz

astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-08-03

Comments: 16 pages, 11 figures, submitted to A&A

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

Core — 35× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Calibration — 13× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Bayesian Inference — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Forward modeling — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Angular Momentum Transport — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Entrainment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics — 1× in this paper
Population Synthesis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Zero-age Main Sequence — 1× in this paper
alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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Massive Star Formation

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