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astro-ph.SR2026

Cyclic light variations and accretion disk evolution in the LMC eclipsing binary OGLE-LMC-DPV-062

R. E. Mennickent, G. Djurašević, J. A. Rosales +4

Many intermediate-mass close binaries exhibit photometric cycles longer than their orbital periods, likely related to accretion-disk variability. Previous studies indicate that his…

astro-ph.SR2026

Reconstruction of Cepheid Radial Velocity Curves from the shape of the V-band Light Curves

V. Hocdé, P. Moskalik, N. Nardetto +17

This paper aims to develop the first method to reconstruct the shape of the RV curves of short-period fundamental-mode Cepheids, based exclusively on their pulsation period and the…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 2 cited

Surface brightness-colour relations of Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds classical Cepheids based on Gaia magnitudes

M. C. Bailleul, N. Nardetto, V. Hocdé +12

Aims: We derive SBCRs for classical Cepheids in the Milky Way and in the Magellanic Clouds using the photometric data available in the Gaia database, and we quantify the metallicit…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

RR Lyrae stars with variable mean magnitudes

Gergely Hajdu, Johanna Jurcsik, Márcio Catelan +6

Context. A number of RR Lyrae stars show variable mean magnitudes in the OGLE survey light curves of the Galactic bulge. Hitherto this phenomenon was not studied, as it was general…

astro-ph.SR2025

Distance to the Globular Cluster M 3 from the Infrared Surface Brightness Technique applied to RR Lyrae stars

Bartłomiej Zgirski, Wolfgang Gieren, Grzegorz Pietrzyński +10

The Infrared Surface Brightness (IRSB) technique is a specific application of the Baade-Wesselink method. Given a proper calibration, well covered optical and near-infrared photome…

astro-ph.SR2025

Unveiling the Variability and Chemical Composition of AL Col

Surath C. Ghosh, Santosh Joshi, Samrat Ghosh +9

Using \tess\ short-cadence (120\,s) SAP flux, we identified a rotational frequency of 0.09655\, (\,d). Wavelet analysis reveals that while…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Period-Luminosity Relations for Galactic Type II Cepheids in the Sloan bands

W. Narloch, G. Hajdu, G. Pietrzynski +7

Type II Cepheids (T2Ceps), alongside RR Lyrae stars, serve as important distance indicators for old population II stars due to their period-luminosity (PL) relations. However, stud…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

Testing and Combining Transient Spectral Classification Tools on 4MOST-like Blended Spectra

Andrew Milligan, Isobel Hook, Christopher Frohmaier +15

With the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) expected to provide an influx of transient spectra when it begins observations in early 2026 we consider the potential…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

Multiplicity of Galactic Cepheids from long-baseline interferometry V. High-accuracy orbital parallax and mass of SU Cygni

A. Gallenne, N. R. Evans, P. Kervella +23

Cepheid masses are particularly necessary to help solving the mass discrepancy, while independent distance determinations provide crucial test of the period-luminosity relation and…

astro-ph.SR2024

Precise physical parameters of three late-type eclipsing binary giant stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

G. Rojas García, D. Graczyk, G. Pietrzyński +17

Detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) allow for the possibility of precise characterization of its stellar components. They offer a unique opportunity to derive their physical paramet…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 10 cited

Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of A-type stars: Long-term evolution of core dynamo cycles

J. P. Hidalgo, P. J. Käpylä, D. R. G Schleicher +2

Early-type stars have convective cores due to a steep temperature gradient produced by the CNO cycle. These cores can host dynamos, and the generated magnetic fields can be relevan…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 4 cited

The Infrared Surface Brightness technique applied to RR Lyrae stars from the solar neighborhood

Bartłomiej Zgirski, Wolfgang Gieren, Grzegorz Pietrzyński +9

The Baade-Wesselink method allows us to estimate distances to individual pulsating stars. Accurate geometric parallaxes obtained by the Gaia mission serve us in the calibration of…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 4 cited

Astrometric and photometric characterization of Tel B combining two decades of observations

P. H. Nogueira, C. Lazzoni, A. Zurlo +11

Tel is an 18 Myr system with a 2.09 M A-type star and an M7-M8 brown dwarf companion, Tel B, separated by 4.2'' (208 au). High-contrast imaging campaigns over 20…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 4 cited

Non-evolutionary effects on period change in Magellanic Cepheids I. New binary systems revealed from Light Travel Time Effect

Rajeev Singh Rathour, Gergely Hajdu, Radosław Smolec +5

Period change studies give a window to probe into the evolution and dynamics of Cepheids. While evolutionary period changes have been well studied both observationally and theoreti…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 8 cited

Cepheids with giant companions. II. Spectroscopic confirmation of nine new double-lined binary systems composed of two Cepheids

Bogumił Pilecki, Ian B. Thompson, Felipe Espinoza-Arancibia +13

Binary Cepheids with giant companions are crucial for studying the physical properties of Cepheid variables, providing the best means to measure their masses. Systems composed of t…

astro-ph.SR2024

The Baade-Wesselink projection factor of RR Lyrae stars -- Calibration from OHP/SOPHIE spectroscopy and Gaia DR3 parallaxes

Garance Bras, Pierre Kervella, Boris Trahin +10

The application of the parallax of pulsation (PoP) technique to determine distances of pulsating stars implies the use of a scaling parameter, the projection factor (p-factor), req…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

Long-period maser-bearing Miras in the Galactic center: period-luminosity relations and extinction estimates

M. O. Lewis, R. Bhattacharya, L. O. Sjouwerman +5

We establish a sample of 370 Mira variables that are likely near the Galactic center (GC). The sources have been selected from the OGLE and BAaDE surveys based on their sky coordin…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 14 cited

New Near-Infrared Period-Luminosity-Metallicity Relations for Galactic RR Lyrae Stars Based on Gaia EDR3 Parallaxes

Bartłomiej Zgirski, Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Marek Górski +13

We present new period-luminosity and period-luminosity-metallicity relations for Galactic RR Lyrae stars based on a sample of 28 pulsators located at distances up to kpc from…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Effects of the centrifugal force in stellar dynamo simulations

Felipe H. Navarrete, Petri J. Käpylä, Dominik R. G. Schleicher +1

The centrifugal force is often omitted from simulations of stellar convection either for numerical reasons or because it is assumed to be weak compared to the gravitational force.…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 24 cited

The Araucaria project: High-precision orbital parallaxes and masses of binary stars. I. VLTI/GRAVITY observations of ten double-lined spectroscopic binaries

A. Gallenne, A. Mérand, P. Kervella +4

We aim to measure very precise and accurate model-independent masses and distances of detached binary stars. Precise masses at the % level are necessary to test and calibrate…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 8 cited

V4142 Sgr: a Double Periodic Variable with an accretor surrounded by the accretion-disk's atmosphere

J. A. Rosales, R. E. Mennickent, G. Djurašević +4

Context: A detailed study of the close interacting binary V4142\,Sgr based on photometric and spectroscopic analysis is presented.This system belongs to the enigmatic class of Algo…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

A CCD Search for Variable Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 6611

G. Michalska, Z. Kołaczkowski, R. Leiton +4

We present the results of the variability survey in the young open cluster NGC 6611 based on observations obtained during 34 nights spanning one year. In total, we found 9…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 32 cited

The Evolution of Protostellar Outflow Cavities, Kinematics, and Angular Distribution of Momentum and Energy in Orion A: Evidence for Dynamical Cores

Cheng-Han Hsieh, Héctor G. Arce, Zhi-Yun Li +13

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of the 10 kAU environment surrounding 21 protostars in the Orion A molecular cloud tracing outflows. Our…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 14 cited

HARPS-N high spectral resolution observations of Cepheids II. The impact of the surface-brightness color relation on the Baade-Wesselink projection factor of eta Aql

N. Nardetto, W. Gieren, J. Storm +16

The Baade-Wesselink (BW) method of distance determination of Cepheids is used to calibrate the distance scale. Various versions of this method are mainly based on interferometry an…