A Review of Red Supergiants, Their Properties and How We Know Them
In a review of the properties of red supergiants, to appear in an upcoming issue of New Astronomy Reviews, made available today online here, Dr. Emily Levesque of the University of Hawaii provides the reader with an in-depth view of a fascinating type of star more than 10 times the mass of our own Sun. While she manages to do so without any higher mathematics, she spares no details and provides the reader with, using her own words, a “look back at the latest advances in our understanding of RSG physical properties, beginning with the methods that must be used in order to photometrically and spectroscopically identify RSGs as massive stars in the Milky Way or other nearby galaxies.”