Recent Publications (Sept 21, 2009)

Massey, P., Plez, B., Levesque, E. M., Olsen, K. A. G., Silva, D. R., and Clayton, G. C. 2009, "Physical Properties of Red Supergiants", in The Biggest, Baddest, Coolest Stars,ed. D. Luttermoser, B. Smith, and R. Stencel (ASP Conf Ser. 412), 3-16
Levesque, E. M., Massey, P., Olsen, K. A. G., and Plez, B. 2009, "The Coolest Stars in the Clouds: Unusual Red Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds", in The Biggest, Baddest, Coolest Stars, ed. D. Luttermoser, B. Smith, and R. Stencel (ASP Conf Ser.), 33-48
Drout, M., Massey, P., Meynet, G., Tokarz, S., & Caldwell, N. 2009, "Yellow Supergiants in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)", ApJ, 703, 441-460
Massey, P., Silva, D. R., Levesque, E. M., Plez, B., Olsen, K. A. G., & Clayton, G. C. 2009, "Red Supergiants in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)", ApJ, 703, 420-440
Massey, P. 2009, "A Census of Massive Stars Across the Herzprung-Russell Diagram of Nearby Galaxies: What We Know and What We Don't", to appear in Hot and Cool: Bridging Gaps in Massive Star Evolution", ed. C. Leithere, P. D. Bennett, P. W. Morris, & J. Th. van Loon, in press.
Drout, M., & Massey, P. 2009, "Filling the Yellow Void: A Census of F and G Supergiants in M31", Ibid.
Levesque, E. M., Massey, P., Plez, B., & Olsen, K. A. G. 2009, "The Physical Properties of the Red Supergiant WOH G64: The Largest Star Known?" AJ, 137, 4744-52
Clayton, G. C., Freeman, W., Bright, S., Massey, P., Gordon, K. D., Levesque, E. , Plez, B., Olsen, K., & Nordhaus, J. 2009, ``Dust around red supergiants in th e Magellanic Clouds", The Magellanic System: Stars, Gas, and Galaxies, IAU Symp. 256, ed. J. Bland-Hawthorn & J. S. Gallagher, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 411-416
Massey, P., Zangari, A. M., Morrell, N. I., Puls, J., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., Bresolin, F., & Kudritzki, R-P 2009, "The Physical Properties and Effective emperature Scale of O-type Stars as a Function of Metallicity. III. More Results from the Magellanic Clouds", ApJ, 692, 618-652
Massey, P., Levesque, E. M., Plez, B., and Olsen, K. A. G. 2008, "The Physical Properties of Red Supergiants: Comparing Theory and Observations", in Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines, IAU Symp 250, ed. F. Bresolin, P. A. Crowther, & J. Puls, University of Cambridge Press, 97-110
Melena, N. W., Massey, P., Morrell, Nidia I., & Zangari, Amanda M. 2008, "The Massive Star Content of NGC 3603", AJ, 135, 878-891
Foellmi, C., Koenigsberger, G., Georgiev, L., Toledano, O., Marchenko, S. V., Massey, P., Dall, T. H., Moffat, A. F. J., Morrell, N., Corcoran, M., Kaufer, A., Naze, Y., Pittard, J., St.-Louis, N., Fullerton, A., Massa, D., & Pollock, A. M. T. 2008, "New Inisghts into the Nature of the SMC WR/LBV Binary HD 5980", RMxAA, 44, 3-27
Massey, P., McNeill, R. T., Olsen, K. A. G., Hodge, P. W., Blaha, C., Jacoby, G. H., Smith, R. C., and Strong, S. B. 2007, "A Survey of Local Group Galaxies Currently Forming Stars: III. A Search for Luminous Blue Variables and Other H-alpha Emission-Lined Stars", AJ, 134, 2474-2503
Levesque, E. M., Massey, P., Olsen, K. A. G., Plez, B. 2007, "Late-Type Red Supergiants: Too Cool for the Magellanic Clouds?", ApJ, 667, 202.
Massey, P., & Koeigsberger, G. 2008, "Conference Summary", to appear in Massive Stars: Fundamental Parameters and Circumstellar Interactions, RevMexAA, 33, 173-177
Morrell, N. I., Massey, P., Eastwood, K., Penny, L. R., Gies, D. R., Tsitkin, Y., and Darnell, E. 2008, "Massive Binaries in the R136 Cluster", to appear in Massive Stars: Fundamental Parameters and Circumstellar Interactions, RevMexAA, 33, 113.
Massey, P., Plez, B., Levesque, E. M., Olsen, K. A. G., Silva, D. R., & Clayton, G. C. 2008, "The Physical Properties of Red Supergiants", in Massive Stars: Fundamental Parameters and Circumstellar Interactions, ed. Benaglia, Bosch, & Cappa, RevMexAA, 33, 29-31
Morrell, N. I., Massey, P., Degioia-Eastwood, K., Penny, L. R., Gies, D. R., Tsitkin, Y., and Darnell, E. 2008, "Massive Binaries in the R136 Cluster", RevMexAA, 33, 113-115
Massey, P., Olsen, K. A. G., Hodge, P. W., Jacoby, G. H., McNeill, R. T., Smith, R. C., and Strong, S. B. 2007, "A Survey of Local Group Galaxies Currently Forming Stars: II. UBVRI Photometry of Stars in Seven Dwarfs and a Comparison of the Entire Sample", AJ, 133, 2393-
Massey, P., Levesque, E. M., Olsen, K. A. G., Plez, B., and Skiff, B. A. 2007, "HV 11423: The Coolest Supergiant in the SMC", ApJ, 660, 301-310.
Olsen, K. A. G., and Massey, P. 2007, "Evidence for Tidal Effects in the Stellar Dynamics of the Large Magellanic Cloud", ApJ, 656, L61-4
Massey, P., Levesque, E. M., and Plez, B. 2006, "Bringing VY Canis Majoris Down to Size: An Improved Determination of Its Effective Temperature", ApJ, 646, 1203-1208
Olsen, K. A. G., Blum, R. D., Stephens, A. W., Davidge, T. J., Massey, P., Strom, S.. E., and Rigaut, F. 2006, "The Star Formation Histories of the Bulge and Disk of M31 from Resolved Stars", AJ, 132, 271-289
Massey, P. 2006, "Massive Stars in the Local Group: Star Formation and Stellar Evolution" (invited review), The Local Group as an Astrophysical Labatory, Proceedings of the May 2003 STScI Symposium, ed. M. Livio and T. M. Brown , University of Cambridge Press, 164-177
Massey, P., Olsen, K. A. G., Hodge, P. W., Strong, S. B., Jacoby, G. H., Schlingman, W., and Smith, R. C. 2006, "A Survey of Local Group Galaxies Current Forming Stars: I. UBVRI Photometry of Stars in M31 and M33" AJ, 131, 2478-2496
Levesque, E.M., Massey, P., Olsen, K. A. G., Plez, B., Meynet, G., and Maeder, A. 2006, "The Effective Temperatures and Physical Properties of Magellanic Cloud Red Supergiants: The Effects of Metallicity", ApJ, 645, 1102-1117
Massey, P. 2006, "The Discovery of a P Cygni Analog in M31", ApJ 638, L93-96
Crockett, N. R., Garnett, D. R., Massey, P., & Jacoby, G. 2006, "Neon and Oxygen Abundances in M33", ApJ, 637, 741-751
Massey, P., Plez, B., Levesque, E. M., Olsen, K. A. G., Clayton, G. C., and Josselin, E. 2005, ``The Reddening of Red Supergiants: When Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", ApJ, 634, 1286-1292
Levesque, E. M., Massey, P., Olsen, K. A. G., Plez, B., Josselin, E., Maeder, A., and Meynet, G. 2005, ``The Effective Temperature Scale of Galactic Red Supergiants: Cool, But Not As Cool As We Thought", ApJ, 628, 973-985
Note: the above paper was also presented at the 2005 Jan AAS meeting in San Diego. A press release connected with it can be found here.
Massey, P., Puls, J., Pauldrach, A. W. A., Bresolin, F., Kudrtizki, R. P., and Simon, T. 2005, ``The Physical Properties and Effective Temperature Scale of O-type Stars a Function of Metallicity. II. Analysis of 20 More Magellanic Cloud Stars, and Results from the Complete Sample", ApJ, 627, 477-519
Silva, D. R., Massey, P., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., and Henning, P. A. 2005, ``The Distance and Metallicity of the Newly Discovered, Nearby Irregular Galaxy HIZSS3", ApJ, 623, 148-158
Di Stefano, R., Hong, A. K. H., Greiner, J., Primini, F. A., Garcia, M. R., Barmby, P., Massey, P., Hodge, P. W., Williams, B. F., Murray, S. S., Currey, S., and Russo, T. A. 2004, "Supersoft X-Ray Sources in M31", ApJ, 610, 247-260
Massey, P., Bresolin, F., Kudritzki, R. P., Puls, J., and Pauldrach, A. W. A. 2004, ``The Physical Properties and Effective Temperature Scale of O-type Stars as a Function of Metallicity. I. A Sample of 20 Stars in the Magellanic Clouds", ApJ, 608, 1001-1027
Walborn, N. R., Morrell, N. I., Howarth, I. D., Crowther, P. A., Lennon, D. J., Massey, P., and Arias, J. I. 2004, ``A CNO Dichotomy Among O2 Giant Spectra in the Magellanic Clouds", ApJ, 608, 1028
Bianchi, L., Bohlin, R., and Massey, P. 2004, "The Ofpe/WN9 Stars in M33", ApJ, 601, 228.
Huang, W., Gies, D., Massey, P., and Conti, P. S. 2004, ``Stellar Rotation in the Young Cluster M17", to appear in Stellar Rotation, IAU Symp. 215, ed. A. Maeder and P. Eenens (San Francisco: ASP), p. 67
Massey, P., and Olsen, K. A. G. 2003, "The Evolution of Massive Stars I. Red Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds", Astronomical Journal, 126, 2867
Massey, P., Henning, P. A., and Kraan-Korteweg, R. C. 2003, "A Neighboring Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Hidden by the Milky Way", Astronomical Journal, 126, 2362
Massey, P., Olsen, K. A. G., and Parker, J. Wm. 2003, "The Discovery of a 12th Wolf-Rayet Star in the Small Magellanic Cloud", PASP, 115, 1265.
Massey, P. 2003, "Massive Stars in the Local Group: Implications for Stellar Evolution and Star Formation" (invited review), in Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol 41, 15
Hunter, D. A., Elmegreen, B. G., and Massey, P. 2003, "Big Clusters, Tiny Galaxies" (invited contribution), Mercury, Vol.~32, No.~3, 34
Morrell, N. I., Ostrov, P. G., Massey, P., and Gamen, R. 2003, "Hodge 53-47: An early O-type double lined binary in the SMC", MNRAS, 341, 583
Massey, P. 2003, "Observational Constraints on Massive Star Evolution" (invited review), in A Massive Star Odyssey: from Main Sequence to Supernova, IAU Symp. 212, ed. K. A. van der Hucht, A. Herrero, and C. Esteban, (ASP, San Francisco), p. 316.
Massey, P., and Holmes, S. 2002 "Wolf-Rayets in IC10: Probing the Nearest Starburst", ApJ 580, L35
Snow, T. P., Zukowski, D., and Massey, P. 2002, "The Intrinsic Profile of the 4428A Diffuse Interstellar Band", ApJ, 578, 877
Massey, P. 2002 "A UBVR CCD Survey of the Magellanic Clouds", ApJS, 141, 81.
Slesnick, C. L., Hillenbrand, L. A., and Massey, P. 2002, "The Star Formation History and Mass Function of the Double Cluster h and Chi Persei", ApJ, 576, 880
Niemela, V. S., Massey, P., Testor, G., & Benitez, S. G. 2002, "The Massive Wolf-Rayet Binary SMC WR7", MNRAS, 333, 347
Massey, P., Penny, L. R., and Vukovich, J. 2002, "Orbits of Four Very Massive Binaries in the R136 Cluster", ApJ, 565, 982.
Walborn, N. R., Howarth, I. D., Lennon, D. J., Massey, P. , Oey, M. S., Moffat, A. F. J., Skalkowski, G., Morrell, N. I., Drissen, L., and Parker, J. W. 2002, "A New Spectral Classification System for the Earliest O Stars: Definition of Type O2", Astronomical Journal, 123, 2754
Zaritsky, D., Harris, J., Thompson, I. B., Grebel, E. K., and Massey, P. 2002, "The Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey: The Small Magellanic Cloud Stellar Catalog and Extinction Map", Astronomical Journal, 123, 855
Oey, M. S., Clarke, C. J., and Massey, P. 2001, ``Mechanical Feedback: From Stellar Wind Bubbles to Starbursts", invited review, Dwarf Galaxies and Their Environments, ed. K. S. de Boer, E.-J. Dettmar, & U. Klein, Shaker Verlag, 181
Johnson, K. E., Kobulnicky, H. A., Massey, P., and Conti, P. S. 2001, "A Sample of Clusters of Extragalactic Ultracompact HII Regions", ApJ, 559, 864
Bianchi, L., Scuderi, S., Massey, P., and Romaniello, M. 2001, "The Massive Star Content of NGC 6822. Ground-based and HST Photometry", Astronomical Journal, 121, 2020.
Massey, P., Duffy, A. S. 2001, "A Deep Search for Wolf-Rayet Stars in Small Magellanic Cloud", ApJ, 550, 713
Parker, J. W., Zaritsky, D., Stecher, T. P., Harris, J., & Massey, P. 2001, "Ultraviolet and Optical Observations of OB Associations and Field Stars in the Southwest Region of the Large Magellanic Cloud", Astronomical Journal, 121, 905
Massey, P., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., and Waterhouse, E. 2001, "The Progenitor Masses of Wolf-Rayet Stars and Luminous Blue Variables Determined from Cluster Turn-offs. II. Results from 12 Clusters and OB Associations in the Milky Way", Astronomical Journal, 121, 1050
Massey, P., Waterhouse, E., and DeGioia-Eastwood, K. 2000, "The Progenitor Masses of Wolf-Rayet Stars and Luminous Blue Variables Determined from Cluster Turn-offs. I. Results from 19 OB Associations in the Magellanic Clouds", Astronomical Journal, 119, 2214
Massey, P., Guerrieri, M., and Joyce, R. R. 2000, ``The Number of Publications Used as a Metric of the NOAO WIYN Queue Experiment", New Astronomy, 5, 25.
Massey, P., and Foltz, C. 2000, ``The Spectrum of the Night Sky Over Mount Hopkins and Kitt Peak: Changes After a Decade", PASP, 112, 566
Massey, P. 2000, "An Unprecedented Change in the Spectrum of S Doradus: As Cool As It Gets", PASP, 112, 144
Massey, P., and Aller, L. H. 2000, "Astronomical Spectroscopy", article for Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill
Massey, P., and Meyer, M. R. 2001, "Stellar Masses", article for Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, IOPP and Macmillan Publishers,
Massey, P. 1999, "What the Galaxies of the Local Group Tell Us About Massive Star Evolution", (invited review talk), in "Wolf-Rayet Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies", IAU 193, ed. K. A. van der Hucht, G. Koenigsberger, and P. R. J. Eenens (San Francisco, ASP), p. 429.
Massey, P. 1999, "Massive Stars in the MCs: What They Tell Us about the IMF, Stellar Evolution, and Upper Mass "Cutoffs", (invited review talk), to appear in "New Views of the Magellanic Clouds, IAU 190, ed. Y.H. Chu, N.B. Suntzeff, J.E. Hesser, & D.A. Bohlender (San Francisco, ASP), 173
Massey, P., and Johnson, O. 1998, "Evolved Massive Stars in the Local Group. II. A New Survey for Wolf-Rayet Stars in M33 and Its Implications for Massive Star Evolution: Evidence of the "Conti Scenario" in Action", ApJ, 505, 793
Massey, P. 1998, "Evolved Massive Stars in the Local Group. I. Identification of Red Supergiants in NGC 6822, M31, and M33", ApJ, 501, 153
Massey, P., and Hunter, D. A. 1998, "R136: A Cluster of O3 Stars!" (invited review), in Boulder-Munich II: Properties of Hot, Luminious Stars, ed. I. D. Howarth (San Franciso, ASP), p. 355
Massey, P. 1998, "The Initial Mass Function of Massive Stars in the Local Group" (invited review), in "The Stellar Initial Mass Function, 38th Herstmonceux Conference", ed. G. Gilmore & D. Howell, (San Francisco, ASP), p. 17
Massey, P., and Hunter, D. A. 1998, "Star Formation in R136: A Cluster of O3 Stars Revealed by Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy", ApJ, 493, 180.
Burkholder, V., Massey, P., and Morrell, N. 1997, "The 'Mass Discrepancy' for Massive Stars: Tests of Models Using Spectroscopic Binaries", ApJ, 490, 328.
Massey, P. 1997, "Observations of the Most Luminous Stars in Local Group Galaxies" (invited review), in Stellar Astrophysics for the Local Group, VIII Canary Islands Winter Scool of Astrophysics, ed. A. Aparicio, A. Herrero, & F. Sanchez (Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press), p. 95
Hunter, D. A., Vacca, W. D., Massey, P., Lynds, R., and O'Neil, E. J. 1997, "Ultraviolet Photometry of Stars in the Compact Cluster R136 in the Large Magellanic Cloud", AJ, 113, 1691
Massey, P. 1996, "Numbers and Distribution of Wolf-Rayet Stars in Local Group Galaxies: Clues to Massive Star Evolution" (invited review), in Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Framework of Stellar Evolution, ed. J. M. Vreux, A. Detal, D. Fraipont-Caro, E. Gosset, and G. Rauw (Univ de Liege, Belgium), p. 361
Bianchi, L, Clayton, G. C., Bohlin, R. C., Hutchings, J. B., and Massey, P. 1996, "Ultraviolet Extinction by Interstellar Dust in External Galaxies: M31", ApJ, 471, 203
Massey, P., Bianchi, L., Hutchings, J. B., and Stecher, T. P. 1996, "The UV-brightest Stars of M33 and Its Nucleus: Discovery, Photometry, and Optical Spectroscopy", ApJ, 469, 629
Bianchi, L., Hutchings, J.B., and Massey, P. 1996, "The Winds of Hot Stars in External Galaxies. III. HST UV Spectroscopy of O and B Supergiants in M31 and M33", AJ, 111, 2303
Massey, P., Armandroff, T.E., Pyke, R., Kanan, P., and Wilson, C. D. 1995, "Hot, Luminous Stars in Selected Regions of NGC 6822, M31, and M33", AJ, 110, 2715
Massey, P., Johnson, K.E., and DeGioia-Eastwood, K. 1995, "The Initial Mass Function and Massive Star Evolution in the OB Associations of the Northern Milky Way", ApJ 454, 151
Oey, M.S., Massey, P. 1995, "Triggered Star Formation and the Dynamics of a Superbubble in the LMC: The OB Association LH47/48 in DEM 152", ApJ, 452, 210
Massey, P. and Armandroff, T.E. 1995, "The Massive Star Content, Reddening, and Distance of the Nearby Irregular Galaxy IC 10", AJ, 109, 2470
Massey, P., Lang, C.C., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., and Garmany, C.D. 1995, "Massive Stars in the Field and Associations of the Magellanic Clouds: The Upper Mass Limit, the Initial Mass Function, and a Critical Test of Main-Sequence Stellar Evolutionary Theory", ApJ, 438, 188
Bianchi, L., Lamers, H. J. G. L. M., Hutchings, J. B., Massey, P., Kudritzki, R., Herrero, A., & Lennon, D. J. 1994, "Ultraviolet and Optical Spectroscopy of a B Supergiant Star in M31", A&A, 292, 213

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