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Massive Stars and their Supernovae

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Massive Stars and their Supernovae
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Publisher: arXiv
Number of pages: 81

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The authors focus on the astrophysical aspects, i.e. a description of the evolution of massive stars and their endpoints, with a special emphasis on the composition of their ejecta (in form of stellar winds during the evolution or of explosive ejecta).

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