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astro-ph.SR2026

Extending asteroseismic magnetometry across the diverse landscape of magnetic structures

Nicholas Z. Rui, J. M. Joel Ong, Armand Leclerc +5

Magnetic fields have now been asteroseismically measured in the cores of many red giants. However, most interpretations of these measurements assume that the magnetic field is far…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

An axisymmetric shock breakout indicated by prompt polarized emission from the type II supernova 2024ggi

Yi Yang, Xudong Wen, Lifan Wang +18

The death of massive stars is triggered by an infall-induced bounce shock that disrupts the star. How such a shock is launched and propagates through the star is a decade-long puzz…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Modelling the Future of Gaia Neutron Star-Main Sequence Binaries: From Eccentric Orbits to Millisecond Pulsar-White Dwarfs

Debatri Chattopadhyay, Kyle A. Rocha, Seth Gossage +3

We model the evolution of 21 Gaia neutron star (NS)-main-sequence binaries (orbital period -- days, eccentricity ) using binary evolutio…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 15 cited

Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf

Adam J. Burgasser, Eileen C. Gonzales, Samuel A. Beiler +16

The atmospheres of low-temperature brown dwarfs and gas giant planets are expected to contain the phosphine molecule, PH However, previous observations have shown much lower ab…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Conversion and Damping of Nonaxisymmetric Internal Gravity Waves in Magnetized Stellar Cores

Cy S. David, Daniel Lecoanet, Pascale Garaud

Magnetism is thought to play an important role in the evolution and dynamics of stars, though little is known about magnetic fields deep within stellar interiors. A promising avenu…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 11 cited

The Demographics of Binary Companions to Stripped-Envelope Supernovae: Confronting Observations with Population Synthesis

E. Zapartas, O. D. Fox, J. Su +15

Stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe) mark the deaths of massive stars without hydrogen-rich envelopes. Most SESNe likely originate from binary systems where a companion stripped th…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 15 cited

The Formation of Black Holes in Non-interacting, Isolated Binaries. Gaia Black Holes as Calibrators of Stellar Winds From Massive Stars

Matthias U. Kruckow, Jeff J. Andrews, Tassos Fragos +10

Context. The black holes discovered using Gaia, especially Gaia BH1 and BH2, have low mass companions of solar-like metallicity in wide orbits. For standard isolated binary evoluti…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 29 cited

The cool brown dwarf Gliese 229 B is a close binary

Jerry W. Xuan, A. Mérand, W. Thompson +76

Owing to their similarities with giant exoplanets, brown dwarf companions of stars provide insights into the fundamental processes of planet formation and evolution. From their orb…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 3 cited

Emulators for stellar profiles in binary population modeling

Elizabeth Teng, Ugur Demir, Zoheyr Doctor +14

Knowledge about the internal physical structure of stars is crucial to understanding their evolution. The novel binary population synthesis code POSYDON includes a module for inter…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 12 cited

Magnetic Fields of M Dwarfs from the Pleiades Open Cluster

Fabio Wanderley, Katia Cunha, Oleg Kochukhov +10

Average magnetic field measurements are presented for 62 M-dwarf members of the Pleiades open cluster, derived from Zeeman-enhanced Fe I lines in the H-band. An MCMC methodology wa…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 4 cited

Jet formation in post-AGB binaries: Confronting cold magnetohydrodynamic disc wind wind models with observations

Toon De Prins, Hans Van Winckel, Jonathan Ferreira +4

Aims: We consider cold self-similar magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disc wind solutions to describe jets that are launched from the circumcompanion accretion discs in post-AGB binaries.…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 18 cited

Rotation and Abundances of the Benchmark Brown Dwarf HD 33632 Ab from Keck/KPIC High-resolution Spectroscopy

Chih-Chun Hsu, Jason J. Wang, Jerry W. Xuan +24

We present the projected rotational velocity and molecular abundances for HD 33632 Ab obtained via Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer high-resolution spectroscopy. HD 33632 Ab is…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

The story of SN 2021aatd -- a peculiar 1987A-like supernova with an early-phase luminosity excess

T. Szalai, R. Könyves-Tóth, A. P. Nagy +20

There is a growing number of peculiar events that cannot be assigned to any of the main supernova (SN) classes. SN 1987A and a handful of similar objects, thought to be explosive o…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 17 cited

Fresh view of the hot brown dwarf HD 984 B through high-resolution spectroscopy

J. C. Costes, J. W. Xuan, A. Vigan +26

Context. High-resolution spectroscopy has the potential to drive a better understanding of the atmospheric composition, physics, and dynamics of young exoplanets and brown dwarfs,…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 15 cited

An efficient tidal dissipation mechanism via stellar magnetic fields

Craig D. Duguid, Nils B. de Vries, Daniel Lecoanet +1

Recent work suggests that inwardly propagating internal gravity waves (IGWs) within a star can be fully converted to outward magnetic waves (MWs) if they encounter a sufficiently s…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 12 cited

Flaring Stars in a Non-targeted mm-wave Survey with SPT-3G

C. Tandoi, S. Guns, A. Foster +96

We present a flare star catalog from four years of non-targeted millimeter-wave survey data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The data were taken with the SPT-3G camera and cove…

astro-ph.SR2023

CD-27 11535: Evidence for a Triple System in the Pictoris Moving Group

Andrew D. Thomas, Eric L. Nielsen, Robert J. De Rosa +20

We present new spatially resolved astrometry and photometry of the CD-27 11535 system, a member of the Pictoris moving group consisting of two resolved K-type stars on a …

astro-ph.SR2023★ 28 cited

Asteroseismology of the young open cluster NGC 2516 I: Photometric and spectroscopic observations

Gang Li, Conny Aerts, Timothy R. Bedding +8

Asteroseismic modelling of isolated star presents significant challenges due to the difficulty in accurately determining stellar parameters, particularly the stellar age. These cha…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 18 cited

Age-dating the young open cluster UBC 1 with g-mode asteroseismology, gyrochronology, and isochrone fitting

D. J. Fritzewski, T. Van Reeth, C. Aerts +3

UBC 1 is an open cluster discovered in Gaia data and located near the edge of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite's (TESS) continuous viewing zone. We aim to provide age cons…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 15 cited

VLTI/GRAVITY Observations and Characterization of the Brown Dwarf Companion HD 72946 B

W. O. Balmer, L. Pueyo, T. Stolker +96

Tension remains between the observed and modeled properties of substellar objects, but objects in binary orbits, with known dynamical masses can provide a way forward. HD 72946 B i…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 12 cited

Investigating Mass Segregation of the Binary Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 6819

Claire Zwicker, Aaron M. Geller, Anna C. Childs +2

We search for mass segregation in the intermediate-aged open cluster NGC 6819 within a carefully identified sample of probable cluster members. Using photometry from the Gaia, 2MAS…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 13 cited

Tracing the Origins of Mass Segregation in M35: Evidence for Primordially Segregated Binaries

Erin Motherway, Aaron M. Geller, Anna C. Childs +2

M35 is a young open cluster and home to an extensive binary population. Using Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS, and 2MASS photometry with the Bayesian statistical software, BASE-9, we derive p…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 14 cited

Multidimensional Simulations of Core Convection

Daniel Lecoanet, Philipp V. F. Edelmann

The cores of main sequence intermediate- and high-mass stars are convective. Mixing at the radiative-convective boundary, waves excited by the convection, and magnetic fields gener…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 31 cited

The photometric variability of massive stars due to gravity waves excited by core convection

Evan H. Anders, Daniel Lecoanet, Matteo Cantiello +8

Massive stars die in catastrophic explosions, which seed the interstellar medium with heavy elements and produce neutron stars and black holes. Predictions of the explosion's chara…