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List of works by Alex de Koter

(Sub)stellar companions shape the winds of evolved stars

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

A Database for Galaxy Evolution Modeling

article

A HIFI preview of warm molecular gas aroundχCygni: first detection of H2O emission toward an S-type AGB star

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A chemical inventory of the S-type AGB starχ Cygni based onHerschel/HIFI observations of circumstellar line emission

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A dearth of short-period massive binaries in the young massive star forming region M 17

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A dusty veil shading Betelgeuse during its Great Dimming

scientific article published on 16 June 2021

A high-resolution line survey of IRC +10216 withHerschel/HIFI

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A new prescription for the mass-loss rates of WC and WO stars

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A new prescription for the mass-loss rates of hydrogen-free WR stars

ALMA spectrum of the extreme OH/IR star OH 26.5+0.6

scientific article published in August 2018

ATOMIUM: A high-resolution view on the highly asymmetric wind of the AGB star π 1 Gruis

scientific article published in December 2020

ATOMIUM: The astounding complexity of the near circumstellar environment of the M-type AGB star R Hydrae. I. Morpho-kinematical interpretation of CO and SiO emission

scientific article published on 14 April 2021

ATOMIUM: halide molecules around the S-type AGB star W Aquilae

scientific article

Absorption and scattering properties of arbitrarily shaped particles in the Rayleigh domain

Ages of young star clusters, massive blue stragglers, and the upper mass limit of stars: analyzing age-dependent stellar mass functions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An Empirical Isochrone of Very Massive Stars in R136a

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An X-ray-quiet black hole born with a negligible kick in a massive binary within the Large Magellanic Cloud

scientific article published on 18 July 2022

An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst.

scientific article published in January 2018

An oxygen-rich dust disk surrounding an evolved star in the Red Rectangle

scientific article published in Nature

An unusual face-on spiral in the wind of the M-type AGB star EP Aquarii (Corrigendum)

scientific article published in December 2019

Analytic, dust-independent mass-loss rates for red supergiant winds initiated by turbulent pressure

scientific article published in February 2021

Are the stellar winds in IC 1613 stronger than expected?

Author Correction: Reduction of the maximum mass-loss rate of OH/IR stars due to unnoticed binary interaction

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

B fields in OB stars (BOB): Detection of a magnetic field in the He-strong star CPD −57° 3509

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

B fields in OB stars (BOB): Low-resolution FORS2 spectropolarimetry of the first sample of 50 massive stars

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

B fields in OB stars (BOB): The magnetic triple stellar system HD 164492C in the Trifid nebula

scientific article

B fields in OB stars (BOB): on the detection of weak magnetic fields in the two early B-type starsβ CMa andϵ CMa

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

BONNSAI: correlated stellar observables in Bayesian methods

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Bfields in OB stars (BOB): Concluding the FORS 2 observing campaign

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Binary interaction dominates the evolution of massive stars.

scientific article

Bonnsai: a Bayesian tool for comparing stars with stellar evolution models

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Circumstellar molecular composition of the oxygen-rich AGB star IK Tauri

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Constraints on the H2O formation mechanism in the wind of carbon-rich AGB stars

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Crystallinity versus mass-loss rate in asymptotic giant branch stars

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Delay-time distribution of core-collapse supernovae with late events resulting from binary interaction

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Detection of carbonates in dust shells around evolved stars.

scientific article published on January 2002

Determining the effects of clumping and porosity on the chemistry in a non-uniform AGB outflow (Corrigendum)

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Developing a self-consistent AGB wind model – I. Chemical, thermal, and dynamical coupling

scholarly article

Developing a self-consistent AGB wind model – II. Non-classical, non-equilibrium polymer nucleation in a chemical mixture

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

Direct measurement of the size and shape of the present-day stellar wind ofη Carinae

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Discovery of a double ring in the core of η Carinae

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Discovery of the massive overcontact binary VFTS352: evidence for enhanced internal mixing

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Disks around young stars with VLTI/MIDI

scientific article

Dust and the spectral energy distribution of the OH/IR star OH 127.8+0.0: Evidence for circumstellar metallic iron

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Dynamically inflated wind models of classical Wolf-Rayet stars

scientific article

Evidence of magnetic field decay in massive main-sequence stars

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

HIFISTARS Herschel/HIFI observations of VY Canis Majoris. Molecular-line inventory of the envelope around the largest known star

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Herschel/HIFI observations of red supergiants and yellow hypergiants

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Herschel/HIFI observations of the circumstellar ammonia lines in IRC+10216.

scientific article published on 12 August 2016

Identification of iron sulphide grains in protoplanetary disks

scientific article

Imaging Red Supergiants with VLT/SPHERE/ZIMPOL

scientific article published in August 2018

Inner dusty envelope of the AGB stars W Hydrae, SW Virginis, and R Crateris using SPHERE/ZIMPOL

scientific article published in March 2020

Low-temperature crystallization of silicate dust in circumstellar disks

scientific article published in Nature

MWC 297: a young high-mass star rotating at critical velocity

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Mass loss and rotational CO emission from Asymptotic Giant Branch stars

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Massive pre-main-sequence stars in M17

Massive pre-main-sequence stars in M17

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Massive stars on the verge of exploding: the properties of oxygen sequence Wolf-Rayet stars

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Multiplicity of the red supergiant population in the young massive cluster NGC 330

scholarly article published in March 2020

Multiplicity properties of the pre-supernova population of NGC330

scholarly article published in July 2020

Observational evidence for composite grains in an AGB outflow

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

On the evolution and fate of super-massive stars

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

On the mass-loss rate of massive stars in the low-metallicity galaxies IC 1613, WLM, and NGC 3109

scientific article

On the nature of WO stars: a quantitative analysis of the WO3 star DR1 in IC 1613

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

On the physical structure of IRC +10216

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

On the possibility that the most massive stars result from binary mergers

article by A. de Koter et al published 2013 in EAS Publications Series

Pair creation supernovae at low and high redshift

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Predicting the Presence of Companions for Stripped-envelope Supernovae: The Case of the Broad-lined Type Ic SN 2002ap

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Probing the mass-loss history of AGB and red supergiant stars from CO rotational line profiles. II. CO line survey of evolved stars: derivation of mass-loss rate formulae

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

R144 revealed as a double-lined spectroscopic binary

scientific article (publication date: 27 March 2013)

Reduction of the maximum mass-loss rate of OH/IR stars due to unnoticed binary interaction

scientific article published in January 2019

Relating jet structure to photometric variability: the Herbig Ae star HD 163296

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Response to Comment on “An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst”

scientific article published in Science

Rotating massive main-sequence stars

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Rotating massive main-sequence stars

scientific article

Rotational velocities of single and binary O-type stars in the Tarantula Nebula

Southern MAssive Stars at High angular resolution: observational campaign and companion detection

scholarly article

Space astrometry of the very massive ∼150 M⊙ candidate runaway star VFTS682

Spectral analysis of early-type stars using a genetic algorithm based fitting method

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Sub-surface convection zones in hot massive stars and their observable consequences

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

SwSt 1: an O-rich planetary nebula around a C-rich central star

scientific article

The B Fields in OB Stars (BOB) Survey

The ESO Diffuse Interstellar Bands Large Exploration Survey: EDIBLES I. Project description, survey sample and quality assessment

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

The Eddington factor as the key to understand the winds of the most massive stars. Evidence for a {Gamma}-dependence of Wolf-Rayet type mass loss

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The Missing Luminous Blue Variables and the Bistability Jump

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The O stars in the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

The R136 star cluster dissected withHubble Space Telescope/STIS. I. Far-ultraviolet spectroscopic census and the origin of He ii λ1640 in young star clusters

scholarly article

The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

scientific article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. I. Introduction and observational overview

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The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. II. R139 revealed as a massive binary system

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. III. A very massive star in apparent isolation from the massive cluster R136

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The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. IV. Candidates for isolated high-mass star formation in 30 Doradus

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. IX. The interstellar medium seen through diffuse interstellar bands and neutral sodium

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. VI. Evidence for rotation of the young massive cluster R136

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. VIII. Multiplicity properties of the O-type star population

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XI. A census of the hot luminous stars and their feedback in 30 Doradus

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XII. Rotational velocities of the single O-type stars

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XIII: On the nature of O Vz stars in 30 Doradus

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XIV. The O-type stellar content of 30 Doradus

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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

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XVII. Physical and wind properties of massive stars at the top of the main sequence

scientific article (publication date: October 2014)

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XVIII. Classifications and radial velocities of the B-type stars

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XXI. Stellar spin rates of O-type spectroscopic binaries

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XXV. Surface nitrogen abundances of O-type giants and supergiants

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XXVI. Properties of the O-dwarf population in 30 Doradus

scholarly article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XXVII. Physical parameters of B-type main-sequence binary systems in the Tarantula nebula

scientific article

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula survey

symposium paper

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula survey: the fastest rotating o-type star and shortest period LMC Pulsar--Remnants of a supernova disrupted binary?

scholarly article

The VLT–FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Contributed Paper

The building blocks of planets within the 'terrestrial' region of protoplanetary disks

scientific article

The evolution of rotating very massive stars with LMC composition

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The inner circumstellar dust of the red supergiant Antares as seen with VLT/SPHERE/ZIMPOL

scientific article published on 9 January 2021

The mass of the very massive binary WR21a

scholarly article

The mineralogy, geometry and mass-loss history of IRAS 16342–3814

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The non-thermal radio emitter HD 93250 resolved by long baseline interferometry

The optical spectrum of the planetary nebula NGC 6543

scholarly article

The properties of single WO stars

The properties of ten O-type stars in the low-metallicity galaxies IC 1613, WLM, and NGC 3109

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The rotation rates of massive stars: the role of binary interaction through tides, mass transfer, and mergers

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The shape and composition of interstellar silicate grains

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The shape and composition of interstellar silicate grains

scientific article

The variable mass loss of the AGB star WX Piscium as traced by the CO J = 1-0 through 7-6 lines and the dust emission

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Water content and wind acceleration in the envelope around the oxygen-rich AGB star IK Tauri as seen by Herschel /HIFI

scientific article published in October 2010