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astro-ph.SR2026

Open Clusters as Laboratories for Cool Star Evolution: Highlights from the Cool Stars 23 Splinter Session

Deepak Chahal, Beatrice Caccherano, Edward Gillen +16

Open clusters remain among the most powerful laboratories for calibrating how fundamental stellar properties such as rotation, magnetic activity, surface chemistry, and internal st…

astro-ph.SR2026

BLG723.31.34651 as an eclipsing Roche lobe-filling sdOB+WD binary

Alekzander Kosakowski, Charles E. Derbyshire, Sydney Jetton +1

We present a detailed observational analysis of BLG723.31.34651, the fourth reported eclipsing member of the class of Roche lobe-filling hot subdwarfs, using time series spectrosco…

astro-ph.SR2026

Discovery of the first outbursting hot subdwarf binary: ZTF J0007+4804

E. Stringer, T. Kupfer, K. Deshmukh +10

Hot subdwarf binaries with white dwarf companions with orbital periods of less than two hours are progenitor candidates for massive single white dwarfs as well as a variety of ther…

astro-ph.SR2026

BlackGEM observations of compact pulsating stars: Mode identification for the DOV PG 1159-035 using multi-colour photometry

P. Ranaivomanana, C. Johnston, M. Uzundag +10

While space-based telescopes offer unparalleled precision for asteroseismology, ground-based observations remain crucial for identifying compact pulsator candidates and enabling th…

astro-ph.SR2026

Spectroscopic follow-up of hot subdwarf variables found in ZTF -- Atmospheric and fundamental properties of radial-mode sdB pulsators

Corey W. Bradshaw, Thomas Kupfer, Alekzander R. Kosakowski +2

Hot subdwarf variables (sdBVs) that display large-amplitude (1%), short-period variability, as a result of radial-mode pulsations, have recently become objects of interest as th…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Gaia20fnr: A binary-lens microlensing event with full orbital motion revealed by four space telescopes

M. Wicker, Ł. Wyrzykowski, M. Hundertmark +49

The microlensing event Gaia20fnr is a long-duration, non-caustic-crossing binary-lens event at high Galactic latitude. Triggered by a photometric rise detected by the Gaia space mi…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Circini: A massive hierarchical triple system with an eclipsing binary

J. Švrčková, P. Harmanec, R. Klement +6

Circini is known to be a massive multiple system containing a 3.9 d inner eclipsing binary in a slightly elliptical orbit exhibiting slow apsidal motion and a distant tertiary…

astro-ph.SR2025

An extremely fast fading population II dwarf nova candidate: caught spectroscopically on the rise

Natasha Van Bemmel, Jielai Zhang, Jeff Cooke +14

We present AT2022kak, a rapidly evolving optical transient discovered by the KiloNova and Transients Program (KNTraP). This interesting burst exhibited extremely fast evolution, wi…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Improved thermonuclear rate of Ti(,)V and its astrophysical implication in rp-process

S. Q. Hou, C. Iliadis, M. Pignatari +4

Accurate Ti(,)V reaction rates are crucial for understanding the nucleosynthesis path of the rapid capture process (rp-process) that occurs in X-ray bursts. We…

astro-ph.SR2025

An Improved Atlas of Full-Scan Spectra from ISO/SWS

D. R. Mizuno, T. A. Kuchar, Kathleen E. Kraemer +4

We present an atlas of full-scan spectra from the Short-Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS) aboard the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) after reprocessing and improving an earlier versio…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

The Extended Atlas of Low-resolution Spectra from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite

G. C. Sloan, Kathleen E. Kraemer, K. Volk

We present an updated atlas of spectra from the Low-Resolution Spectrometer (LRS) on the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), which took spectra from 7.67 to 22.73 um with a spe…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

VLTI observations of the Orion Belt stars: I. eps Orionis

Alžběta Oplištilová, Miroslav Brož, Christian A. Hummel +2

Massive stars play a decisive role in the evolution of the Universe. In order to constrain their current state and structure, we need sufficiently complex models, constrained by as…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

Probing the origins. II. Unravelling lithium depletion and stellar motion: Intrinsic stellar properties drive depletion, not kinematics

M. L. L. Dantas, R. Smiljanic, D. Romano +4

In Paper I, we classified a stellar sample from the thin disc with a broad range in metallicity as being churned outward or inward, or blurred/undisturbed. In this paper (Paper II)…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Temporal Changes in the Infrared Spectra of Magellanic Carbon Stars

G. C. Sloan, K. E. Kraemer, B. Aringer +9

The Medium-Resolution Spectrometer on the Mid-Infrared Instrument on JWST obtained spectra of three carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Two of the spectra differ significan…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

A study in scarlet -- II. Spectroscopic properties of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients

G. Valerin, A. Pastorello, E. Mason +65

We investigate the spectroscopic characteristics of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients (ILRTs), a class of elusive objects with peak luminosity between that of classical novae…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 8 cited

A study in scarlet -- I. Photometric properties of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients

G. Valerin, A. Pastorello, A. Reguitti +57

We investigate the photometric characteristics of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients (ILRTs), a class of elusive objects with peak luminosity between that of classi…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 3 cited

Population synthesis of Thorne-Żytkow objects: Rejuvenated donors and unexplored progenitors in the common envelope formation channel

K. Nathaniel, A. Vigna-Gómez, A. Grichener +3

Context. Common envelope evolution of a massive star and a neutron star companion has two possible outcomes: formation of a short-period binary (a potential gravitational wave sour…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 12 cited

Measuring White Dwarf Variability from Sparsely Sampled Gaia DR3 Multi-Epoch Photometry

Maya Steen, J. J. Hermes, Joseph A. Guidry +5

White dwarf stars are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and are essential to understanding stellar evolution. While most white dwarfs are photometrically stable and reliable flux standards…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 22 cited

Solar fusion III: New data and theory for hydrogen-burning stars

B. Acharya, M. Aliotta, A. B. Balantekin +47

In stars that lie on the main sequence in the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram, like our sun, hydrogen is fused to helium in a number of nuclear reaction chains and series, such as the p…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 3 cited

Hot Subdwarfs in Close Binaries Observed from Space III: Reflection Effect Asymmetry Induced by Relativistic Beaming

Brad N. Barlow, Thomas Kupfer, Bryce A. Smith +2

Detailed studies of hot subdwarf B stars with red dwarf or brown dwarf companions can shed light on the effects of binarity on late stellar evolution. Such systems exhibit a strong…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

An Eclipsing 47 minute Double White Dwarf Binary at 400 pc

James Munday, P. -E. Tremblay, J. J. Hermes +20

We present the discovery of the eclipsing double white dwarf (WD) binary WDJ 022558.21-692025.38 that has an orbital period of 47.19 min. Following identification with the Transiti…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 4 cited

General relativistic pulsations of ultra-massive ZZ Ceti stars

Alejandro H. Córsico, S. Reece Boston, Leandro G. Althaus +4

Ultra-massive white dwarf stars are currently being discovered at a considerable rate, thanks to surveys such as the {\it Gaia} space mission. These dense and compact stellar remna…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 2 cited

A search for stellar siblings of the ~ 200 Myr TOI-251b planetary system

Qinghui Sun, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Andrew W. Mann +4

Young planets (< 1 Gyr) are helpful for studying the physical processes occurring at the early stage of planet evolution. TOI-251 b is a recently discovered sub-Neptune orbiting a…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 2 cited

Relativistic Corrections in White Dwarf Asteroseismology

S Reece Boston, Charles R Evans, J Christopher Clemens

With the precision now afforded by modern space-based photometric observations from the retired K2 and current TESS missions, the effects of general relativity (GR) may be detectab…