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Dusty Massive Evolved Stars In the Nearby Universe. Stephen J. Williams National Observatory of Athens June 23, 2014. Collaborators. Alceste Bonanos (NOA) Nikolay Britavskiy (NOA) Michalis Kourniotis (NOA) Jose Prieto (Princeton) Andrea Mehner (ESO) William Blair (JHU)
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Dusty Massive Evolved Stars In the Nearby Universe Stephen J. Williams National Observatory of Athens June 23, 2014
Collaborators AlcesteBonanos(NOA) Nikolay Britavskiy (NOA) MichalisKourniotis (NOA) Jose Prieto (Princeton) Andrea Mehner (ESO) William Blair (JHU) Brad Whitmore (STScI)
SN2009ip LBV Outbursts LBV Variability Mauerhan et al. 2013
Conclusions, Work to Do • Pan-STARRS1 • Variability to ID evolved massive stars • Bandpass diagnostics • Spectroscopic follow-up • Census of objects across metallicity • SN progenitor groundwork
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