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most citedHigh mass function ellipsoidal variables in the Gaia Focused Product Release: searching for black hole candidates in the binary zoo

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astro-ph.SR2026

Precise and Accurate Mass and Radius Measurements of Thirty Galactic Metal-Poor Stars in Detached Eclipsing Binaries

D. M. Rowan, K. Z. Stanek, C. S. Kochanek +4

Detached eclipsing binaries have long served as fundamental benchmarks for making direct comparisons with stellar models. By combining the light curve and radial velocity orbit of…

astro-ph.SR2026

Astronomical Cardiology II: A Search For Heartbeat Stars Using APOGEE and TESS

Jowen Callahan, D. M. Rowan, C. S. Kochanek +1

Stellar binaries in short-period, highly eccentric systems with significant tidal deformations near pericenter, also known as heartbeat stars, are a laboratory for studying dynamic…

astro-ph.SR2026

PANTERA. I. Hunting for the Most Metal-Rich Stars in the Solar Neighborhood with High-Resolution Spectroscopy

Serat M. Saad, D. M. Rowan, K. Z. Stanek +4

We present PANTERA (Project for Astrophysical Nucleosynthesis and Targeted Exploration of metal-Rich Abundances), a high-resolution spectroscopic survey of the most metal-rich star…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

ASASSN-24fw: An 8-month long, 4.1 mag, optically achromatic and polarized dimming event

R. Forés-Toribio, B. JoHantgen, C. S. Kochanek +20

We discuss ASASSN-24fw, a 13th-magnitude star that optically faded by mag starting in September 2024 after over a decade of quiescence in ASAS-SN. The dimmimg…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Astronomical Cardiology: A Search For Heartbeat Stars Using and

Jowen Callahan, D. M. Rowan, C. S. Kochanek +1

Heartbeat stars are a subclass of binary stars with short periods, high eccentricities, and phase-folded light curves that resemble an electrocardiogram. We start from the $\textit…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

A Systematic Search for Big Dippers in ASAS-SN

B. JoHantgen, D. M. Rowan, R. Forés-Toribio +6

Dipper stars are extrinsically variable stars with deep dimming events due to extended, often dusty, structures produced by a wide range of mechanisms such as collisions, protoplan…