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astro-ph.SR2026

Multiplicity of Cool Stars and their Evolution

Matthew I. Swayne, Leen Decin, Theo Khouri +12

Making up a sizeable portion of the galactic census, stellar multiples are experiencing a renaissance. Enabling the study of multiple strands of the study of cool stars, stellar mu…

astro-ph.SR2026

Testing the reliability of magnetic field strength measurements for M dwarfs

I. Amateis, O. Kochukhov, A. Hahlin

M dwarfs host strong magnetic fields that can be measured using several complementary techniques. However, the impact of key methodological choices on Zeeman broadening diagnostics…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 2 cited

Asteroseismic modelling of main-sequence solar-like stars and Kepler exoplanet host stars with the FICO procedure I. Catalogue of fundamental stellar properties

Jérôme Bétrisey, Daniel R. Reese, Camilla Pezzotti +2

We present detailed asteroseismic modelling of 95 main-sequence solar-like stars and Kepler exoplanet host stars using the FICO procedure, a three-step method that combines forward…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Theoretical Study of the Structure and Elemental Abundances of HD 20794

Mrinmay Medhi, Mami Deka, Krishna Saha +2

HD~20794 is a nearby, bright, metal-poor G-type dwarf hosting a compact planetary system, including a super-Earth near the habitable zone. Its low stellar activity and the availabi…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Magnetic field measurements in a sample of Class I and flat-spectrum protostars observed with SPIRou

L. Drouglazet, E. Alecian, A. Sousa +27

Magnetic fields play a crucial role throughout stellar evolution, regulating angular momentum, channelling accretion, and launching jets and outflows. While the magnetic properties…

astro-ph.SR2026

Spectropolarimetric Constraints on the Maunder Minimum Analog HD 166620: Evidence for Weakened Magnetic Braking

Federica Chiti, Jennifer L. van Saders, Oleg Kochukhov +1

We present the first spectropolarimetric time-series analysis of the Maunder Minimum analog HD 166620, using 12 nights of data from CFHT/SPIRou and a single epoch from CFHT/ESPaDOn…

astro-ph.SR2026

Anti-Solar Differential Rotation May Have Revived Magnetic Braking in the Subgiant 31 Aquilae

Travis S. Metcalfe, Jennifer L. van Saders, Thomas R. Ayres +16

Recent observations have shown that sufficiently slow rotation disrupts the organization of large-scale magnetic field in older main-sequence stars, leading to weakened magnetic br…

astro-ph.SR2026

Gaia FGK Benchmark Stars: Selecting Infrared Lines for Abundance Determination

Scarlet Elgueta, Paula Jofré, Claudia Aguilera-Gómez +7

The advent of new and more powerful infrared spectrographs has significantly motivated the advancement of the study of atomic and molecular line lists and stellar atmosphere models…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

The stellar activity-rotation-age relationship under the lens of asteroseismology

C. Pezzotti, J. Bétrisey, G. Buldgen +6

In low-mass stars, the connection between magnetic activity, rotation period, and age provides key insights into the functioning of dynamos. Fully understanding the activity-rotati…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

High-angular-resolution ALMA imaging of the inhomogeneous dynamical atmosphere of the asymptotic giant branch star W Hya

K. Ohnaka, K. T. Wong, G. Weigelt +1

We present high-angular-resolution imaging of the asymptotic giant branch star W Hya with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to probe the dynamics and chemistr…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

Evidence for the Keplerian orbit of a close companion around a giant star

Mats Esseldeurs, Leen Decin, Joris De Ridder +31

Close companions influence stellar evolution through tidal interactions, mass transfer, and mass loss effects. While such companions are detected around young stellar objects, main…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Abundance Analysis of Chemically Depleted Post-AGB/Post-RGB Binaries with Faint Discs

Maksym Mohorian, Devika Kamath, Meghna Menon +4

Post-AGB and post-RGB binaries with stable circumbinary discs provide key insights into late stellar and disc evolution, revealing how binary interactions shape disc structure and…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

s-process Enriched Post-AGB Star J003643.94-723722.1 in the SMC with an Extreme C/O Ratio and the First Precise Detection of Lead

Meghna Menon, Devika Kamath, Maksym Mohorian +6

Post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) stars are exquisite tracers of s-process nucleosynthesis via their surface abundances. We present a comprehensive analysis of J003643.947…

astro-ph.SR2025

Discovery of the pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary MML 48

Y. Gómez Maqueo Chew, L. Hebb, H. C. Stempels +12

We present the discovery of the eclipsing binary MML 48, which is a member of Upper Centaurus Lupus, has an associated age of 16 Myr, and is composed of two young, low-mass stars.…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Chemical abundances and doppler imaging of the Ap Si/He-wk star HD 100357

Athul Dileep, Santosh Joshi, Sofya Alexeeva +11

We present the results of time-resolved photometry, abundance analysis and Doppler imaging of an Ap star, HD 100357. The {\it TESS} photometry revealed rotational modulation with a…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Frequency separation ratios do not suppress magnetic activity effects in solar-like stars

Jérôme Bétrisey, Anne-Marie Broomhall, Sylvain N. Breton +3

Magnetic activity effects are typically neglected in asteroseismic modelling of solar-type stars, presuming that these effects can be accounted for in the parametrisation of the su…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 11 cited

Homogeneous Stellar Atmospheric Parameters and 22 Elemental Abundances for FGK Stars Derived From LAMOST Low-resolution Spectra with DD-Payne

Meng Zhang, Maosheng Xiang, Yuan-Sen Ting +11

A deep understanding of our Galaxy desires detailed decomposition of its stellar populations via their chemical fingerprints. This requires precise stellar abundances of many eleme…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Charting circumstellar chemistry of carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars. II. Abundances and spatial distributions of CS

R. Unnikrishnan, M. Andriantsaralaza, E. De Beck +9

The circumstellar envelopes (CSEs) of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars harbour a rich variety of molecules and are sites of complex chemistry. Our current understanding of the c…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Extremely asymmetric bipolar magnetic field of the Bp star HD 57372

Oleg Kochukhov

Fossil magnetic fields of early-type stars are typically characterised by symmetric or slightly distorted oblique dipolar surface geometries. Contrary to this trend, the late-B mag…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Gaia FGK Benchmark Stars: spectral library, metallicities and abundances of and Fe-peak elements of the third version

L. Casamiquela, C. Soubiran, P. Jofré +14

The accurate determination of chemical abundances in stars plays a pivotal role in understanding stellar structure and evolution, nucleosynthesis, and the chemical enrichment histo…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 12 cited

Revisiting inelastic Cu+H collisions and the non-LTE Galactic evolution of copper

S. Caliskan, A. M. Amarsi, M. Racca +4

The Galactic evolution of copper remains poorly understood, partly due to the strong departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) affecting Cu I lines. A key source of unc…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Main Sequence CH-star in the globular cluster M55 (NGC 6809)

G. S. Da Costa, T. Nordlander

Spectra have been obtained with multi-fibre instrument 2dF on the Anglo-Australian Telescope of 89 candidate main sequence stars in the globular cluster M55 (NGC 6809). Radial velo…

astro-ph.SR2025

Tracing Chemical Depletion in Evolved Binaries Hosting Second-Generation Transition Discs

Maksym Mohorian, Devika Kamath, Meghna Menon +4

The mechanisms responsible for chemical depletion across diverse astrophysical environments are not yet fully understood. In this paper, we investigate chemical depletion in post-A…

astro-ph.SR2025

New submillimetre HCN lasers in carbon-rich evolved stars

W. Yang, K. T. Wong, H. Wiesemeyer +6

Strong laser emission from hydrogen cyanide (HCN) at 805 and 891 GHz has been discovered towards carbon-rich (C-rich) AGB stars, originating from the Coriolis-coupled system betwee…