| Abstract |
This thesis investigates several aspects of the evolution of massive stars and binaries, with particular attention to the final fate of the star, and the implications of the stellar death for potential companions. A common theme connecting all the chapters is “objects or matter which massive stars and clusters eject or lose during their evolution”: surface layers lost due to stellar winds (Ch. 2), binary companions ejected at collapse (Ch. 3), cluster members ostracized from the cluster (Ch. 4), and explosive mass loss events driven by the pair-instability (Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, and Ch. 8).
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