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most citedSloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

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astro-ph.SR2026

A Probabilistic Framework for Population Studies of the Solar Neighborhood: Application to SDSS-V and Gaia

Ilija Medan, Keivan G. Stassun, Zachary Way +8

Studies of the Solar Neighborhood require spectroscopic follow-up of stars identified in astrometric surveys to fully characterize their physical properties. The SDSS-V Solar Neigh…

astro-ph.SR2026

Pre-main Sequence B Stars Surrounding the Orion Nebula

P. H. F. B. Braz, A. Roman-Lopes, W. J. B. Corradi +6

Pre-main sequence (PMS) early-type stars are rare due to their rapid evolution. Confirming PMS B stars is accordingly valuable for constraining higher mass star formation scenarios…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

A search for new symbiotic stars in the Milky Way: Using machine learning techniques applied to photometric databases

V. Contreras Rojas, M. Jaque Arancibia, C. E. Ferreira Lopes +8

Symbiotic stars (SySts) are interacting binaries composed of a red giant transferring material to a hot compact star, typically a white dwarf. Although only about 300 systems are c…

astro-ph.SR2025

Astrophotometric search for massive stars in the Milky way. Confronting Random Forest predictions with available spectroscopy

N. Monsalves, A. Bayo, M. Jaque Arancibia +4

Massive stars play a significant role in different branches of astronomy, from shaping the processes of star and planet formation to influencing the evolution and chemical enrichme…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 10 cited

The Alma catalogue of OB stars. III. A cross-match with Gaia DR3 and an extension based on new spectral classifications

M. Pantaleoni González, J. Maíz Apellániz, R. H. Barbá +4

We present the third installment of the Alma Luminous Star (ALS) catalogue, aimed at creating the most comprehensive and clean sample of Galactic massive stars. This update extends…

astro-ph.SR2025

The OVz stars in NGC 346: distribution, stellar parameters and insights into low-metallicity effects

Leidy Arango, Julia Arias, Gonzalo Holgado +3

OVz stars are identified by their optical spectra, in which the He II 4686 absorption line is stronger than any other He line. This spectral characteristic suggests that these star…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Searching for lambda Boo stars in binary systems

J. Alacoria, C. Saffe, A. Collado +7

Our goal is to find new candidate lambda Boo stars that belong to binary systems. A detailed abundance determination of some candidates could confirm their true lambda Boo nature,…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

Non-thermal radio emission in Sakurai's Object

Marcin Hajduk, Peter A. M. van Hoof, Albert A. Zijlstra +5

The very late thermal pulse (VLTP) affects the evolution of 20\% of 1--8\, stars, repeating the last phases of the red giant within a few years and leading t…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 36 cited

A magnetic massive star has experienced a stellar merger

A. J. Frost, H. Sana, L. Mahy +13

Massive stars (those larger than 8 solar masses at formation) have radiative envelopes that cannot sustain a dynamo, the mechanism that produces magnetic fields in lower-mass stars…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 3 cited

Near-infrared spectroscopic characterisation of Gaia ultra-cool dwarf candidates; Spectral types and peculiarities

T. Ravinet, C. Reylé, N. Lagarde +10

Context: The local census of very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs is crucial to improving our understanding of the stellar-substellar transition and their formation history. These…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 11 cited

Disentangling the origin of chemical differences using GHOST

C. Saffe, P. Miquelarena, J. Alacoria +8

Aims. We explore different scenarios to explain the chemical difference found in the remarkable giant-giant binary system HD 138202 + CD-30 12303. For the first time, we suggest ho…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Sapaki: Galactic O3If* star possibly born in isolation

M. S. Zarricueta Plaza, A. Roman-Lopes, D. Sanmartim

Context: The study of high-mass stars found to be isolated in the field of the Milky Way may help to probe the feasibility of the core-accretion mechanism in the case of massive st…

astro-ph.SR2023

A speckle search for the outer companion of KIC 9832227

Ricardo Salinas, Steve B. Howell

We present Gemini-N/'Alopeke speckle observations of KIC 9832227, a system originally predicted to become a red nova. The diffraction limited observations do not find an outer comp…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 4 cited

Pre-main Sequence Brackett Emitters in the APOGEE DR17 Catalog: Line Strengths and Physical Properties of Accretion Columns

Hunter Campbell, Elliott Khilfeh, Kevin R. Covey +21

Very young (t 10 Myrs) stars possess strong magnetic fields that channel ionized gas from the interiors of their circumstellar discs to the surface of the star. Upon imp…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 4 cited

Are Am stars and hot-Jupiter planets related?

C. Saffe, J. Alacoria, P. Miquelarena +8

Am stars are often components of short-period binary systems, where tidal interactions would result in low rotational velocities and help to develop the chemical peculiarities obse…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 20 cited

Abundance analysis of APOGEE spectra for 58 metal-poor stars from the bulge spheroid

R. Razera, B. Barbuy, T. C. Moura +19

The central part of the Galaxy host a multitude of stellar populations, including the spheroidal bulge stars, stars moved to the bulge through secular evolution of the bar, inner h…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 133 cited

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products

G. Gilmore, S. Randich, C. C. Worley +165

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100,000 stars, including large representat…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 58 cited

The IACOB project. VII. The rotational properties of Galactic massive O-type stars revisited

G. Holgado, S. Simón-Díaz, A. Herrero +1

Stellar rotation is of key importance for the formation process, evolution, and final fate of massive stars. In this paper we review results from the study of the spin rate propert…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 3 cited

The outer orbit of the high-mass stellar triple system Herschel 36 determined with the VLTI

J. Sanchez-Bermudez, C. A. Hummel, J. Díaz-López +8

Multiplicity is a ubiquitous characteristic of massive stars. Multiple systems offer us a unique observational constraint on the formation of high-mass systems. Herschel 36 A is a…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 6 cited

Testing the accretion scenario of lambda Boo stars

J. Alacoria, C. Saffe, M. Jaque Arancibia +5

Our aim is to test the accretion scenario of lambda Boo stars. This model predicts that a binary system with two early-type stars passing through a diffuse cloud should both displa…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 51 cited

Stellar Rotation of T Tauri stars in the Orion Star-Forming Complex

Javier Serna, Jesús Hernández, Marina Kounkel +14

We present a large-scale study of stellar rotation for T Tauri stars in the Orion Star-Forming Complex. We use the projected rotational velocity () estimations reported b…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 3 cited

Fundamental parameters of the massive eclipsing binary HM1 8

Cinthya N. Rodríguez, Gabriel A. Ferrero, Omar G. Benvenuto +5

We present a comprehensive study of the massive binary system HM1~8, based on multi-epoch high resolution spectroscopy, -band photometry and archival X-ray data. Spectra from th…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 9 cited

The winking eye of a very massive star: WR 21a revealed as an eclipsing binary by TESS

Rodolfo H. Barbá, Roberto C. Gamen, Pablo Martín-Ravelo +2

WR~21a was known as a massive spectroscopic binary composed of an O2.5 If*/WN6ha primary and an O3 V((f*))z secondary. Although a minimum value, the mass estimated for the primary…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 25 cited

MONOS.II. Orbit review and analysis for 35 single-lined spectroscopic binary systems and candidates

E. Trigueros Páez, R. H. Barbá, I. Negueruela +3

[ABRIDGED] AIMS: The MONOS project is collecting information and studying O-type spectroscopic binaries with delta > -20 deg. In this 2nd paper, we tackle the study of the 35 singl…