Scientific exploitation of the KU Leuven Mercator telescope: addressing major shortcomings in our understanding of stellar structure and evolution of single and binary stars KU Leuven
Intermediate and high-mass stars are the chemical factories of our Universe. Their chemical and energetic feedback drives the evolution of galaxies while their end-of-life products serves as probed to study the distant universe or give rise to gravitational waves that can be detected by current and future facilities. Yet, our understanding of their stellar structure and evolution suffers from major shortcomings and yet the simplest part of ...