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most citedThe Dependence of Theoretical Synthetic Spectra on -enhancement in Young, Binary Stellar Populations

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astro-ph.SR2026

Re-calibrated analytic stellar evolution formulae for the main sequence: Extension to massive stars and variations in

Conor M Byrne, Elizabeth R Stanway, Jan J Eldridge

Analytic formulae are an efficient way to approximate the evolution of a star of a given mass and chemical composition, and are widely used in the literature to compute large grids…

astro-ph.SR2026

Direct detections of white dwarfs in four WD+dM post-common envelope binaries within 20 pc

Mairi W. O'Brien, David J. Wilson, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay +5

Characterising post-common envelope binaries (PCEBs) containing a white dwarf and a main-sequence companion is essential for improving theories of binary evolution. This paper pres…

astro-ph.SR2025

Helium-burning blue large-amplitude pulsators: A Population Study with BPASS

Zhengyang Zhang, Conor M. Byrne, Chengyuan Wu +1

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are a class of radially pulsating stars with effective temperatures ranging from 20,000 to 35,000 K and pulsation periods between 7 and 75 mi…

astro-ph.SR2025

Comparison of methods used to derive the Galactic star formation history from white dwarf samples

Emily K. Roberts, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Mairi W. O'Brien +4

We compare three methods of deriving the local Galactic star formation history, using as a benchmark the Gaia-defined 40 pc white dwarf sample, currently the largest volume complet…

astro-ph.SR2024

Spectroscopic diagnostics of lead stratification in hot subdwarf atmospheres

L. J. A. Scott, C. S. Jeffery, C. M. Byrne +1

Heavy metal subdwarfs are a class of hot subdwarfs with very high abundances of heavy elements, typically around 10 000 times solar. They include stars which are strongly enhanced…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 80 cited

The Dependence of Theoretical Synthetic Spectra on -enhancement in Young, Binary Stellar Populations

C. M. Byrne, E. R. Stanway, J. J. Eldridge +2

The enhancement of elements such as oxygen is an important phase in the chemical evolution of the early Universe, with nebular material becoming enriched in these elements soon…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 27 cited

Binary evolution pathways of Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators

C. M. Byrne, E. R. Stanway, J. J. Eldridge

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are a recently discovered class of pulsating star, believed to be proto-white dwarfs, produced by mass stripping of a red giant when it has a…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 35 cited

Pulsation in faint blue stars

Conor M. Byrne, C. Simon Jeffery

Following the discovery of blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) by the OGLE survey, additional hot, high-amplitude pulsating stars have been discovered by the Zwicky Transient Fa…

astro-ph.SR2018

Post-common envelope binary stars: Radiative Levitation and Blue Large- Amplitude Pulsators

Conor Byrne, Simon Jeffery

Following the recent discovery of a new class of pulsating star, the blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs), pulsation stability analysis was carried out on evolutionary models of…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 35 cited

Post-common-envelope binary stars, radiative levitation, and blue large-amplitude pulsators

Conor M. Byrne, C. Simon Jeffery

Following the discovery of blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs), single star evolu- tion models of post red giant branch stars that have undergone a common envelope (CE) ejection…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 25 cited

The effects of diffusion in hot subdwarf progenitors from the common envelope channel

Conor M. Byrne, C. Simon Jeffery, Christopher A. Tout +1

Diffusion of elements in the atmosphere and envelope of a star can drastically alter its surface composition, leading to extreme chemical peculiarities. We consider the case of hot…