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COBALT-BLUE: a fast and accurate model for gravitational self-lensing binary systems
Danny J. Dixon, Adam Ingram, Matthew J. Middleton +5
We present COBALT-BLUE, a fast public model for the optical light curve of a luminous star in a non-accreting binary with a compact object. The model includes gravitational self-le…
Synthetic Population of Binary Cepheids. II. The effect of companion light on the extragalactic distance scale
Paulina Karczmarek, Gergely Hajdu, Grzegorz Pietrzyński +5
Because of their period-luminosity relation (PLR), classical Cepheids play a key role in the calibration of the extragalactic distance scale and the determination of the Hubble-Lem…
Synthetic population of binary Cepheids. I. The effect of metallicity and initial parameter distribution on characteristics of Cepheids' companions
Paulina Karczmarek, Radosław Smolec, Gergely Hajdu +5
The majority of classical Cepheids are binary stars, yet the contribution of companions' light to the total brightness of the system has been assumed negligible and lacked a thorou…
The impact of precession on the observed population of ULXs
Norman Khan, Matthew. J. Middleton, Grzegorz Wiktorowicz +3
The discovery of neutron stars powering several ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) raises important questions about the nature of the underlying population. In this paper we build…
Thermally driven winds in ULXs
Matthew Middleton, Nick Higginbottom, Christian Knigge +2
The presence of radiatively driven outflows is well established in ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs). These outflows are optically thick and can reprocess a significant fraction o…
Predicting the self-lensing population in optical surveys
Grzegorz Wiktorowicz, Matthew Middleton, Norman Khan +3
The vast majority of binaries containing a compact object and a regular star spend most of their time in a quiescent state where no strong interactions occur between components. De…