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Massive stars, successes and challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2017

Georges Meynet ,
André Maeder ,
Cyril Georgy Open the ORCID record for Cyril Georgy [Opens in a new window] ,
Sylvia Ekström Open the ORCID record for Sylvia Ekström [Opens in a new window] ,
Patrick Eggenberger ,
Fabio Barblan  and
Han Feng Song
Georges Meynet
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Switzerland email: georges.meynet@unige.ch
André Maeder
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Switzerland email: georges.meynet@unige.ch
Cyril Georgy
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Switzerland email: georges.meynet@unige.ch
Sylvia Ekström
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Switzerland email: georges.meynet@unige.ch
Patrick Eggenberger
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Switzerland email: georges.meynet@unige.ch
Fabio Barblan
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Switzerland email: georges.meynet@unige.ch
Han Feng Song
Affiliation:
College of Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou Province, PR China Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650011, Kunming, PR China
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Abstract

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We give a brief overview of where we stand with respect to some old and new questions bearing on how massive stars evolve and end their lifetime. We focus on the following key points that are further discussed by other contributions during this conference: convection, mass losses, rotation, magnetic field and multiplicity. For purpose of clarity, each of these processes are discussed on its own but we have to keep in mind that they are all interacting between them offering a large variety of outputs, some of them still to be discovered.

Keywords

Massive starsconvectionmass lossrotationmagnetic fieldmultiplicity

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