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The Evolution of Massive Binary Stars

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arxiv 2311.01865 v1 pith:Y3CCRYM5 submitted 2023-11-03 astro-ph.SR astro-ph.GAastro-ph.HE

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Massive stars play a major role in the evolution of their host galaxies, and serve as important probes of the distant Universe. It has been established that the majority of massive stars reside in close binaries and will interact with their companion stars during their lifetime. Such interactions drastically alter their life cycles and complicate our understanding of their evolution, but are also responsible for the production of interesting and exotic interaction products. - Extensive observation campaigns with well-understood detection sensitivities have allowed to convert the observed properties into intrinsic characteristics, facilitating a direct comparison to theory. - Studies of large samples of massive stars in our Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds have unveiled new types of interaction products, providing critical constraints on the mass transfer phase and the formation of compact objects. - The direct detection of gravitational waves has revolutionized the study of stellar mass compact objects, providing a new window to study massive star evolution. Their formation processes are, however, still unclear. The known sample of compact object mergers will grow by orders of magnitude in the coming decade, turning into the best understood astrophysical population.

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