Prof. Dr. Norbert Langer

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAstrophysik
Keywordscircumstellar medium, stellar binary systems, stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis, supernovae
Auszeichnungen

2009: AvH Professur

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandDeutschland
OrtBonn
Universität/InstitutionRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Institut/AbteilungArgelander-Institut für Astronomie

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Matthias WinigerRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Jürgen FohrmannArgelander-Institut für Astronomie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.01.2009

Programm(e)

2008Alexander von Humboldt-Professur

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Norbert Langer gehört seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten zu den international führenden Experten auf dem Gebiet der theoretischen Astrophysik. Er erforscht die Entwicklung massereicher Sterne bis hin zu ihrer Explosion als Supernovae. Mit seiner Expertise schließt er eine Lücke innerhalb der Bonner Astronomie und ergänzt so das vorhandene wissenschaftliche Portfolio.

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2016Marchant, P., Langer, N., Podsiadlowski, P., Tauris, T.M.,Moriya, T. J.: A new route towards merging massive black holes.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016, A50
2016Przybilla, N., Fossati, L., Hubrig, S., Nieva,M.-F., J¨arvinen, S.P., Castro, N., Sch¨oller, M., Ilyin, I., Butler, K., Schneider, F.R.N., Oskinova, L.M.,Morel, T., Langer, N., de Koter, A.: B fields in OB stars (BOB): Detection of a magnetic field in the He-strong star CPD -57deg 3509.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016, A7
2016Mackey, J., Haworth, T. J., Gvaramadze, V. V., Mohamed, S., Langer, N., Harries, T. J.: Detecting stellar-wind bubbles through infrared arcs in H ii regions.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016, A114
2016Grassitelli, L., Chen´e, A.-N., Sanyal, D., Langer, N., St-Louis, N., Bestenlehner, J. M., Fossati, L.: Diagnostics of the unstable envelopes of Wolf-Rayet stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016, A12
2016Dessart, L., Hillier, D. J., Woosley, S., Livne, E., Waldman, R., Yoon, S.-C., Langer, N.: Inferring supernova IIb/Ib/Ic ejecta properties from light curves and spectra: correlations from radiative-transfer models. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016, 1618-1635
2016Neunteufel, P., Yoon, S.-C., Langer, N.: Models for the evolution of close binaries with He-star and white dwarf components towards Type Ia supernova explosions.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016, A43
2016Schneider, F. R. N., Podsiadlowski, P., Langer, N., Castro, N., Fossati, L.: Rejuvenation of stellar mergers and the origin of magnetic fields in massive stars. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016, 2355-2365
2016Crowther, P.A., Caballero-Nieves, S.M., Bostroem, K.A., Ma´ız Apell´aniz, J., Schneider, F.R.N., Walborn, N.R., Angus, C.R., Brott, I., Bonanos, A., de Koter, A., de Mink, S.E., Evans, C.J., Gr¨afener, G., Herrero, A., Howarth, I.D., Langer, N., Lennon, D.J., Puls, J., Sana, H., and Vink, J.S.: The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS. I. Far-ultraviolet spectroscopic census and the origin of He II λ1640 in young star clusters. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016, 624-659
2015Meyer, D. M.-A., Langer, N., Mackey, J., Vel´azquez, P. F., Gusdorf, A.: Asymmetric supernova remnants generated by Galactic, massive runaway stars. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015, 3080-3100
2015Castro, N., Castro, N., Fossati, L., Hubrig, S., Sim´on-D´ıaz, S., Sch¨oller, M., Ilyin, I., Carrol, T.A., Langer, N.,Morel, T., Schneider, F.R.N., Przybilla, N., Herrero, A., de Koter, A., Oskinova, L.M., Reisenegger, A., Sana, H.: B fields in OB stars (BOB). Detection of a strong magnetic field in the O9.7 V star HD 54879.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A81
2015Fossati, L., Castro, N.,Morel, T., Langer, N., Briquet,M., Carroll, T.A., Hubrig, S., Nieva, M.F., Oskinova, L.M., Przybilla, N., Schneider, F.R.N., Sch¨oller, M., Sim´on-D´ıaz, S., Ilyin, I., de Koter, A., Reisenegger, A., and Sana, H.: B fields in OB stars (BOB): on the detection of weak magnetic fields in the two early B-type stars β CMa and ǫ CMa. Possible lack of a ”magnetic desert” in massive stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A20
2015Hubrig, S., Sch¨oller, M., Fossati, L., Morel, T., Castro, N., Oskinova, L. M., Przybilla, N., Eikenberry, S. S., Nieva, M.-F., Langer, N.: B fields in OB stars (BOB): FORS 2 spectropolarimetric follow-up of the two rare rigidly rotating magnetosphere stars HD 23478 and HD 345439. . In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, L3
2015Fossati, L., Castro, N., Sch¨oller, M., Hubrig, S., Langer, N., Morel, T., Briquet, M., Herrero, A., Przybilla, N., Sana, H., Schneider, F.R.N., de Koter, A.: B fields in OB stars (BOB): Low-resolution FORS2 spectropolarimetry of the first sample of 50 massive stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A45
2015Petermann, I., Langer, N., Castro, N., Fossati, L.: Blue supergiants as descendants of magnetic main sequence stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A54
2015Mackey, J., Castro, N., Fossati, L., Langer, N.: Cold gas in hot star clusters: the wind from the red supergiant W26 in Westerlund 1.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A24
2015Almeida, L.A., Sana, H., de Mink, S.E., Tramper, F., Soszy´nski, I., Langer, N., Barb´a, R.H., Cantiello, M., Damineli, A., de Koter, A., Garcia, M., Gr¨afener, G., Herrero, A., Howarth, I.,Ma´ız Apell´aniz, J., Norman, C., Ram´ırez-Agudelo, O.H., and Vink, J.S.: Discovery of the Massive Overcontact Binary VFTS352: Evidence for Enhanced Internal Mixing. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2015, 102
2015Moriya, T. J., Sanyal, D., Langer, N.: Extended supernova shock breakout signals from inflated stellar envelopes.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, L10
2015Mitchell, J. P., Braithwaite, J., Reisenegger, A., Spruit, H., Valdivia, J. A., Langer, N.: Instability of magnetic equilibria in barotropic stars. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015, 1213-1223
2015Sz´ecsi, D., Langer, N., Yoon, S.-C., Sanyal, D., de Mink, S., Evans, C. J., Dermine, T.: Low-metallicity massive single stars with rotation. Evolutionary models applicable to I Zwicky 18.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A15
2015Sanyal, D., Grassitelli, L., Langer, N., Bestenlehner, J. M.: Massive main-sequence stars evolving at the Eddington limit.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A20
2015Tramper, F., Straal, S. M., Sanyal, D., Sana, H., de Koter, A., Gr¨afener, G., Langer, N., Vink, J. S., de Mink, S. E., Kaper, L.: Massive stars on the verge of exploding: the properties of oxygen sequenceWolf-Rayet stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A110
2015Paxton, B., Marchant, P., Schwab, J., Bauer, E.B., Bildsten, L., Cantiello, M., Dessart, L., Farmer, R., Hu, H., Langer, N., Townsend, R.H.D., Townsley, D.M., and Timmes, F.X.: Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Binaries, Pulsations, and Explosions. In: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2015, 15
2015Grassitelli, L., Fossati, L., Sim´on-Di´az, S., Langer, N., Castro, N., Sanyal: Observational Consequences of Turbulent Pressure in the Envelopes of Massive Stars. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2015, L31
2015Moriya, T. J., Langer, N.: Pulsations of red supergiant pair-instability supernova progenitors leading to extreme mass loss.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A18
2015Dessart, L., Hillier, D. J., Woosley, S., Livne, E., Waldman, R., Yoon, S.-C., Langer, N.: Radiative-transfer models for supernovae IIb/Ib/Ic from binary-star progenitors. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015, 2189-2213
2015Grassitelli, L., Fossati, L., Langer, N., Miglio, A., Istrate, A. G., Sanyal, D.: Relating turbulent pressure and macroturbulence across the HR diagram with a possible link to γ Doradus stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, L2
2015Moriya, T. J., Liu, Z.-W., Mackey, J., Chen, T.-W., Langer, N.: Revealing the binary origin of Type Ic superluminous supernovae through nebular hydrogen emission. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, L5
2015McEvoy, C.M., Dufton, P.L., Evans, C.J., Kalari, V.M., Markova, N., Sim´on-D´ıaz, S., Vink, J.S., Walborn, N.R., Crowther, P.A., de Koter, A., de Mink, S.E., Dunstall, P.R., H´enault-Brunet, V., Herrero, A., Langer, N., Lennon, D.J., Ma´ız Apell´aniz, J., Najarro, F., Puls, J., Sana, H., Schneider, F.R.N., and Taylor, W.D.: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XIX. B-type supergiants: Atmospheric parameters and nitrogen abundances to investigate the role of binarity and the width of the main sequence.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A70
2015Ram´ırez-Agudelo, O.H., Sana, H., deMink, S.E., H´enault-Brunet, V., de Koter, A., Langer, N., Tramper, F., Gr¨afener, G., Evans, C.J., Vink, J.S., Dufton, P.L., and Taylor,W.D.: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XXI. Stellar spin rates of O-type spectroscopic binaries.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A92
2015Dunstall, P. R., Dufton, P. L., Sana, H., Evans, C. J., Howarth, I. D., Sim´on-D´ıaz, S., de Mink, S. E., Langer, N., Ma´ız Apell´aniz, J., Taylor, W. D.: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XXII. Multiplicity properties of the B-type stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A93
2015Howarth, I.D., Dufton, P.L., Dunstall, P.R., Evans, C.J., Almeida, L.A., Bonanos, A.Z., Clark, J.S., Langer, N., Sana, H., Sim´on-D´ıaz, S., Soszy´nski, I., and Taylor, W.D.: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XXIII. Two massive double-lined binaries in 30 Doradus.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A73
2015Clark, J.S., Bartlett, E.S., Broos, P.S., Townsley, L.K., Taylor, W.D., Walborn, N.R., Bird, A.J., Sana, H., de Mink, S.E., Dufton, P.L., Evans, C.J., Langer, N., Ma´ız Apell´aniz, J., Schneider, F.R.N., and Soszy´nski, I.: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula survey. XX. The nature of the X-ray bright emission-line star VFTS 399.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A131
2015Gvaramadze, V. V., Kniazev, A. Y., Bestenlehner, J. M., Bodensteiner, J., Langer, N., Greiner, J., Grebel, E. K., Berdnikov, L. N., Beletsky, Y: The blue supergiant MN18 and its bipolar circumstellar nebula. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015, 219-237
2015K¨ohler, K., Langer, N., de Koter, A., de Mink, S.E., Crowther, P.A., Evans, C.J., Gr¨afener, G., Sana, H., Sanyal, D., Schneider, F.R.N., and Vink, J.S.: The evolution of rotating very massive stars with LMC composition.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A71
2015Neilson, H. R., Schneider, F. R. N., Izzard, R. G., Evans, N. R., Langer, N.: The occurrence of classical Cepheids in binary systems.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A2
2015Neilson, H. R., Izzard, R. G., Langer, N., Ignace, R.: The strange evolution of the Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid OGLE-LMC-CEP1812. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, L1
2015Tauris, T. M., Langer, N., Podsiadlowski, P.: Ultra-stripped supernovae: progenitors and fate. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015, 2123-2144
2015Mackey, J., Gvaramadze, V. V., Mohamed, S., Langer, N.: Wind bubbles within H ii regions around slowly moving stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015, A10
2014Clark, J. S., Ritchie, B.W., Najarro, F., Langer, N., Negueruela, I.: A VLT/FLAMES survey for massive binaries in Westerlund 1. IV. Wd1-5 - binary product and a presupernova companion for the magnetar CXOU J1647-45?.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, A90
2014Schneider, F. R. N., Izzard, R. G., de Mink, S. E., Langer, N., Stolte, A., de Koter, A., Gvaramadze, V. V., Hußmann, B., Liermann, A., Sana, H.: Ages of Young Star Clusters, Massive Blue Stragglers, and the Upper Mass Limit of Stars: Analyzing Agedependent Stellar Mass Functions. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2014, 117
2014Hubrig, S., Fossati, L., Carroll, T.A., Castro, N., Gonz´alez, J.F., Ilyin, I., Przybilla, N., Sch¨oller, M., Oskinova, L.M., Morel, T., Langer, N., Scholz, R.D., Kharchenko, N.V., and Nieva, M.-F.: B fields in OB stars (BOB): The discovery of a magnetic field in a multiple system in the Trifid nebula, one of the youngest star forming regions.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, L10
2014Schneider, F. R. N., Langer, N., de Koter, A., Brott, I., Izzard, R. G., Lau, H. H. B.: Bonnsai: a Bayesian tool for comparing stars with stellar evolution models.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, A66
2014Gvaramadze, V. V., Kniazev, A. Y., Berdnikov, L. N., Langer, N., Grebel, E. K., Bestenlehner, J. M.: Discovery of a new Galactic bona fide luminous blue variable with Spitzer.. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, L84-L88
2014Gvaramadze, V.V., Chen´e, A.-N., Kniazev, A.Y., Schnurr, O., Shenar, T., Sander, A., Hainich, R., Langer, N., Hamann, W.-R., Chu, Y.-H., and Gruendl, R.A.: Discovery of a new Wolf-Rayet star and a candidate star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud with Spitzer. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, 929-945
2014Nozawa, T., Yoon, S.-C., Maeda, K., Kozasa, T., Nomoto, K., Langer, N: Dust Production Factories in the Early Universe: Formation of Carbon Grains in Red-supergiant Winds of Very Massive Population III Stars. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2014, L17
2014Moriya, T. J., Tominaga, N., Langer, N., Nomoto, K., Blinnikov, S. I., Sorokina, E. I.: Electron-capture supernovae exploding within their progenitor wind.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, A57
2014Kozyreva, A., Yoon, S.-C., Langer, N.: Explosion and nucleosynthesis of low-redshift pair-instability supernovae.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, A146
2014Gvaramadze, V. V., Menten, K. M., Kniazev, A. Y., Langer, N., Mackey, J., Kraus, A., Meyer, D. M.-A., Kami ´nski, T.: IRC -10414: a bow-shock-producing red supergiant star. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, 843-856
2014Meyer, D. M.-A., Mackey, J., Langer, N., Gvaramadze, V. V., Mignone, A., Izzard, R. G., Kaper, L.: Models of the circumstellar medium of evolving, massive runaway stars moving through the Galactic plane. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, 2754-2775
2014Kozyreva, A., Blinnikov, S., Langer, N., Yoon, S.-C.: Observational properties of low-redshift pair instability supernovae.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, A70
2014Meyer, D. M.-A., Gvaramadze, V. V., Langer, N., Mackey, J., Boumis, P., Mohamed, S.: On the stability of bow shocks generated by red supergiants: the case of IRC -10414.. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, L41-L45
2014Taylor, W. D., Evans, C. J., Sim´on-D´ıaz, S., Sana, H., Langer, N., Smith, N., Smartt, S. J.: Sher 25: pulsating but apparently alone. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, 1483-1490
2014Garc´ıa-Segura, G., Villaver, E., Langer, N., Yoon, S.-C., Manchado, A.: Single Rotating Stars and the Formation of Bipolar Planetary Nebula. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2014, 74
2014Markova, N., Puls, J., Sim´on-D´ıaz, S., Herrero, A., Markov, H., Langer, N.: Spectroscopic and physical parameters of Galactic O-type stars. II. Observational constraints on projected rotational and extra broadening velocities as a function of fundamental parameters and stellar evolution.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, A37
2014Gvaramadze, V. V., Miroshnichenko, A. S., Castro, N., Langer, N., Zharikov, S. V.: TYC 3159-6-1: a runaway blue supergiant. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, 2761-2771
2014Koenigsberger, G., Morrell, N., Hillier, D. J., Gamen, R., Schneider, F. R. N., Gonz´alez- Jim´enez, N., Langer, N., Barb´a, R.: The HD 5980 Multiple System: Masses and Evolutionary Status. In: The Astronomical Journal, 2014, 62
2014deMink, S. E., Sana, H., Langer, N., Izzard, R. G., Schneider, F. R. N.: The Incidence of StellarMergers andMass Gainers amongMassive Stars. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2014, 7
2014Bestenlehner, J.M., Gr¨afener, G., Vink, J.S., Najarro, F., de Koter, A., Sana, H., Evans, C.J., Crowther, P.A., H´enault-Brunet, V., Herrero, A., Langer, N., Schneider, F.R.N., Sim´on-D´ıaz, S., Taylor, W.D., and Walborn, N.R.: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XVII. Physical and wind properties of massive stars at the top of the main sequence.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, A38
2014Istrate, A. G., Tauris, T. M., Langer, N.: The formation of low-mass helium white dwarfs orbiting pulsars . Evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries below the bifurcation period.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, A45
2014Castro, N., Fossati, L., Langer, N., Sim´on-D´ıaz, S., Schneider, F. R. N., Izzard, R. G.: The spectroscopic Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of Galactic massive stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, L13
2014Langer, N., Kudritzki, R. P.: The spectroscopic Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, A52
2014Istrate, A. G., Tauris, T. M., Langer, N., Antoniadis, J.: The timescale of low-mass proto-helium white dwarf evolution.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, L3
2014Fossati, L., Zwintz, K., Castro, N., Langer, N., Lorenz, D., Schneider, F.R.N., Kuschnig, R., Matthews, J.M., Alecian, E., Wade, G.A., Barnes, T.G., and Thoul, A.A. 2014.: Two spotted and magnetic early B-type stars in the young open cluster NGC 2264 discovered by MOST and ESPaDOnS.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014, A143
2013Antoniadis, J., and 21 colleagues 2013: A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary. In: Science, 2013, 448-448
2013Mackey, J., Langer, N., Gvaramadze, V. V.: Dynamics of H II regions around exiled O stars. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013, 859-880
2013Tauris, T. M., Sanyal, D., Yoon, S.-C., Langer, N.: Evolution towards and beyond accretion-induced collapse of massive white dwarfs and formation of millisecond pulsars. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013, A39
2013Hubrig, S., Sch¨oller, M., Ilyin, I., Kharchenko, N. V., Oskinova, L. M., Langer, N., Gonz´alez, J. F., Kholtygin, A. F., Briquet, M., Magori Collaboration: Exploring the origin of magnetic fields in massive stars. II. New magnetic field measurements in cluster and field stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013, A33
2013Tramper, F., Gr¨afener, G., Hartoog, O.E., Sana, H., de Koter, A., Vink, J.S., Ellerbroek, L.E., Langer, N., Garcia, M., Kaper, L., and de Mink, S.E.: On the nature of WO stars: a quantitative analysis of the WO3 star DR1 in IC 1613.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013, A72
2013de Mink, S. E., Langer, N., Izzard, R. G., Sana, H., de Koter, A.: The Rotation Rates of Massive Stars: The Role of Binary Interaction through Tides, Mass Transfer, and Mergers. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2013, 166
2013Dufton, P.L., Langer, N., Dunstall, P.R., Evans, C.J., Brott, I., de Mink, S.E., Howarth, I.D., Kennedy, M., McEvoy, C., Potter, A.T., Ram´ırez-Agudelo, O.H., Sana, H., Sim´on- D´ıaz, S., Taylor, W., and Vink, J.S.: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. X. Evidence for a bimodal distribution of rotational velocities for the single early B-type stars. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013, A33
2013Ram´ırez-Agudelo, O.H., Sim´on-D´ıaz, S., Sana, H., de Koter, A., Sab´ın-Sanjul´ıan, C., de Mink, S.E., Dufton, P.L., Gr¨afener, G., Evans, C.J., Herrero, A., Langer, N., Lennon, D.J., Ma´ız Apell´aniz, J., Markova, N., Najarro, F., Puls, J., Taylor, W.D., and Vink, J.S.: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XII. Rotational velocities of the single O-type stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013, A29
2013Sana, H., de Koter, A., deMink, S.E., Dunstall, P.R., Evans, C.J., H´enault-Brunet, V.,Ma´ız Apell´aniz, J., Ram´ırez-Agudelo, O.H., Taylor,W.D.,Walborn, N.R., Clark, J.S., Crowther, P.A., Herrero, A., Gieles, M., Langer, N., Lennon, D.J., and Vink, J.S.: The VLTFLAMES Tarantula Survey. VIII. Multiplicity properties of the O-type star population. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013, A109
2013Tauris, T. M., Langer, N., Moriya, T. J., Podsiadlowski, P., Yoon, S.-C., Blinnikov, S. I.: Ultra-stripped Type Ic Supernovae from Close Binary Evolution. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2013, L23
2012Mohamed, S., Mackey, J., Langer, N.: 3D simulations of Betelgeuse’s bow shock. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012, A1
2012Sana, H., de Mink, S. E., de Koter, A., Langer, N., Evans, C. J., Gieles, M., Gosset, E., Izzard, R. G., Le Bouquin, J.-B., Schneider, F. R. N.: Binary Interaction Dominates the Evolution of Massive Stars. In: Science, 2012, 444-444
2012Neilson, H. R., Langer, N., Engle, S. G., Guinan, E., Izzard, R: Classical Cepheids Require Enhanced Mass Loss.. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2012, L18
2012Gvaramadze, V.V., Kniazev, A.Y., Miroshnichenko, A.S., Berdnikov, L.N., Langer, N., Stringfellow, G.S., Todt, H., Hamann,W.-R., Grebel, E.K., Buckley, D., Crause, L., Crawford, S., Gulbis, A., Hettlage, C., Hooper, E., Husser, T.-O., Kotze, P., Loaring, N., Nordsieck, K.H., O’Donoghue, D., Pickering, T., Potter, S., Romero Colmenero, E., Vaisanen, P.,Williams, T.,Wolf,M., Reichart, D.E., Ivarsen, K.M., Haislip, J.B., Nysewander,M.C., and LaCluyze, A.P.: Discovery of two new Galactic candidate luminous blue variables with Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012, 3325-3337
2012Mackey et al.(2012)]2012ApJ...751L..10M Mackey, J., Mohamed, S., Neilson, H. R., Langer, N., Meyer, D. M.-A. 2012: Double Bow Shocks around Young, Runaway Red Supergiants: Application to Betelgeuse.. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2012, L10
2012Yoon, S.-C., Dierks, A., Langer, N.: Evolution of massive Population III stars with rotation and magnetic fields. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012, A113
2012Tauris, T. M., Langer, N., Kramer, M.: Formation of millisecond pulsars with CO white dwarf companions - II. Accretion, spin-up, true ages and comparison to MSPs with He white dwarf companions. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012, 1601-1627
2012Neilson, H. R., Langer, N.: Is there a mass discrepancy in the Cepheid binary OGLELMC-CEP0227?. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012, A26
2012Muijres, L., Vink, J. S., de Koter, A., Hirschi, R., Langer, N., Yoon, S.-C: Mass-loss predictions for evolved very metal-poor massive stars.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012, A42
2012K¨ohler, K., Borzyszkowski,M., Brott, I., Langer, N., de Koter, A.: Nitrogen chronology of massive main sequence stars. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012, A76
2012Muijres, L. E., Vink, J. S., de Koter, A., M¨uller, P. E., Langer, N: Predictions for mass-loss rates and terminal wind velocities of massive O-type stars. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012, A37
2012Langer, Norbert: Presupernova Evolution of Massive Single and Binary Stars.. In: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012, 107-164
2012Gr¨afener, G., Vink, J. S., Harries, T. J., Langer, N.: Rotating Wolf-Rayet stars in a post RSG/LBV phase. An evolutionary channel towards long-duration GRBs?.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012, A83
2012Neilson, H. R., Engle, S. G., Guinan, E., Langer, N., Wasatonic, R. P., Williams, D. B.: The Period Change of the Cepheid Polaris Suggests Enhanced Mass Loss. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2012, L32
2012Ritchie, B. W., Stroud, V. E., Evans, C. J., Clark, J. S., Hunter, I., Lennon, D. J., Langer, N., Smartt, S. J.: The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: NGC 346-013 as a test case for massive close binary evolution. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012, A29
2012Mason, A. B., Clark, J. S., Norton, A. J., Crowther, P. A., Tauris, T. M., Langer, N., Negueruela, I., Roche, P.: The evolution and masses of the neutron star and donor star in the high mass X-ray binary OAO 1657-415. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012, 199-206
2011Clark, J. S., Ritchie, B. W., Negueruela, I., Crowther, P. A., Damineli, A., Jablonski, F. J., Langer, N.: A VLT/FLAMES survey for massive binaries in Westerlund 1. III.The WC9d binary W239 and implications for massive stellar evolution. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, A28
2011Dessart, L., Hillier, D. J., Livne, E., Yoon, S.-C., Woosley, S., Waldman, R., Langer, N.: Core-collapse explosions of Wolf-Rayet stars and the connection to Type IIb/Ib/Ic supernovae. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011, 2985-3005
2011Hubrig, S., Sch¨oller, M., Kharchenko, N. V., Langer, N., deWit,W. J., Ilyin, I., Kholtygin, A. F., Piskunov, A. E., Przybilla, N., Magori Collaboration: Exploring the origin of magnetic fields in massive stars: a survey of O-type stars in clusters and in the field. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, A151
2011Sch¨oller, M., Hubrig, S., Ilyin, I., Kharchenko, N. V., Briquet, M., Gonz´alez, J. F., Langer, N., Oskinova, L. M.: Magnetic field studies of massive main sequence stars. In: Astronomische Nachrichten, 2011, 994
2011Tauris, T. M., Langer, N., Kramer, M.: PSR J1614-2230: evidence for a neutron star born massive. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011, 2130-2142
2011Muijres, L. E., de Koter, A., Vink, J. S., Krtiˇcka, J., Kub´at, J., Langer, N.: Predictions of the effect of clumping on the wind properties of O-type stars. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, A32
2011Larsen, S. S., deMink, S. E., Eldridge, J. J., Langer, N., Bastian, N., Seth, A., Smith, L. J., Brodie, J., Efremov, Y. N.: Resolved photometry of extragalactic young massive star clusters. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, A147
2011Brott, I., de Mink, S. E., Cantiello, M., Langer, N., de Koter, A., Evans, C. J., Hunter, I., Trundle, C., Vink, J. S.: Rotating massive main-sequence stars. I. Grids of evolutionary models and isochrones. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, A115
2011Brott, I., Evans, C.J., Hunter, I., de Koter, A., Langer, N., Dufton, P.L., Cantiello, M., Trundle, C., Lennon, D.J., de Mink, S.E., Yoon, S.-C., and Anders, P: Rotating massive main-sequence stars. II. Simulating a population of LMC early B-type stars as a test of rotational mixing. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, A116
2011Eldridge, J. J., Langer, N., Tout, C. A.: Runaway stars as progenitors of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011, 3501-3520
2011Neilson, H. R., Cantiello,M., Langer, N.: The Cepheidmass discrepancy and pulsationdriven mass loss.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, L9
2011Gr¨afener, G., Vink, J. S., de Koter, A., Langer, N.: The Eddington factor as the key to understand the winds of the most massive stars. Evidence for a -dependence of Wolf-Rayet type mass loss. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, A147
2011Taylor, W.D., Evans, C.J., Sana, H., Walborn, N.R., de Mink, S.E., Stroud, V.E., Alvarez- Candal, A., Barb´a, R.H., Bestenlehner, J.M., Bonanos, A.Z., Brott, I., Crowther, P.A., de Koter, A., Friedrich, K., Gr¨afener, G., H´enault-Brunet, V., Herrero, A., Kaper, L., Langer, N., Lennon, D.J.,Ma´ız Apell´aniz, J.,Markova, N.,Morrell, N.,Monaco, L., and Vink, J.S.: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. II. R139 revealed as a massive binary system.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, L10
2011Bestenlehner, J.M., Vink, J.S., Gr¨afener, G., Najarro, F., Evans, C.J., Bastian, N., Bonanos, A.Z., Bressert, E., Crowther, P.A., Doran, E., Friedrich, K., H´enault-Brunet, V., Herrero, A., de Koter, A., Langer, N., Lennon, D.J., Ma´ız Apell´aniz, J., Sana, H., Soszynski, I., and Taylor, W.D.: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. III. A very massive star in apparent isolation from the massive cluster R136.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, L14
2011Dufton, P.L., Dunstall, P.R., Evans, C.J., Brott, I., Cantiello, M., de Koter, A., de Mink, S.E., Fraser, M., H´enault-Brunet, V., Howarth, I.D., Langer, N., Lennon, D.J., Markova, N., Sana, H., and Taylor, W.D. 2011: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: The Fastest Rotating O-type Star and Shortest Period LMC Pulsar Remnants of a Supernova Disrupted Binary?.. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2011, L22
2011Vink, J. S., Muijres, L. E., Anthonisse, B., de Koter, A., Gr¨afener, G., Langer, N.: Windmodelling of verymassive stars up to 300 solarmasses. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, A132
2010Ritchie, B. W., Clark, J. S., Negueruela, I., Langer, N.: A VLT/FLAMES survey for massive binaries in Westerlund 1. II. Dynamical constraints on magnetar progenitor masses from the eclipsing binary W13. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, A48
2010Vink, J. S., Brott, I., Gr¨afener, G., Langer, N., de Koter, A., Lennon, D. J.: The nature of B supergiants: clues from a steep drop in rotation rates at 22 000 K. The possibility of Bi-stability braking.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, L7
2010Cantiello, M., Langer, N.: Thermohaline mixing in evolved low-mass stars. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, A9
2010Yoon, S.-C., Woosley, S. E., Langer, N: Type Ib/c Supernovae in Binary Systems. I. Evolution and Properties of the Progenitor Stars. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2010, 940-954
2010Langer, N., van Marle, A.-J., Yoon, S.-C.: Wolf-Rayet stars as gamma-ray burst progenitors. In: New Astronomy Reviews, 2010, 206-210
2009Langer, N.: A lubricant for tidal friction. Commentary on: Zahn J.-P:; 1977, A&A, 57,383. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009, 133-134
2009Langer, Norbert: Astrophysics: Different stellar demise. In: Nature, 2009, 579-580
2009Mackey, J., Mohamed, S., Gvaramadze, V. V., Kotak, R., Langer, N., Meyer, D. M.-A., Moriya, T. J., Neilson: Interacting supernovae from photoionization-confined shells around red supergiant stars. In: Nature, 2009, 282-285
2009de Mink, S. E., Pols, O. R., Langer, N., Izzard, R. G.: Massive binaries as the source of abundance anomalies in globular clusters.. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009, L1-L4
2009de Mink, S. E., Cantiello, M., Langer, N., Pols, O. R., Brott, I., Yoon, S.-C.: Rotational mixing in massive binaries. Detached short-period systems. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009, 243-253
2009Cantiello, M., Langer, N., Brott, I., de Koter, A., Shore, S. N., Vink, J. S., Voegler, A., Lennon, D. J., Yoon, S.-C.: Sub-surface convection zones in hot massive stars and their observable consequences. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009, 279-290
2009P´erez-Rend´on, B., Garc´ıa-Segura, G., Langer, N.: Supernova progenitor stars in the initial range of 23 to 33 solar masses and their relation with the SNR Cassiopeia A. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009, 1249-1259
2009Hunter, I., Brott, I., Langer, N., Lennon, D.J., Dufton, P.L., Howarth, I.D., Ryans, R.S.I., Trundle, C., Evans, C.J., de Koter, A., and Smartt, S.J.: The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: constraints on stellar evolution from the chemical compositions of rapidly rotating Galactic and Magellanic Cloud B-type stars. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009, 841-853
2009Keek, L., Langer, N., in’t Zand, J. J. M: The effect of rotation on the stability of nuclear burning in accreting neutron stars. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009, 871-881
2009van Veelen, B., Langer, N., Vink, J., Garc´ıa-Segura, G., van Marle, A. J.: The hydrodynamics of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. The influence of the progenitor evolution on the velocity structure and clumping. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009, 495-503