Stellar Properties of Observed Stars Stripped in Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds

New Paper Stellar Properties of Observed Stars Stripped in Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds Massive stars can lose their outer hydrogen layers through interactions with other stars in binary systems. These stripped stars are believed to play a crucial role in the formation of merging neutron stars and certain types of supernovae known as stripped-envelope supernovae. Recently, we made an

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Discovery of the Missing Intermediate-Mass Helium Stars Stripped in Binaries

New Paper Discovery of the Missing Intermediate-Mass Helium Stars Stripped in Binaries The theory of binary star evolution suggests that many massive stars should lose their outer layers when they interact with a comapion star in their orbit.  This interaction should reveal hot helium-rich stars with masses ranging from about 2 to 8 times that of our Sun.  These stars

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