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most citedA multiphase study of theoretical and observed light curves of classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds

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18 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Large Magellanic Cloud Globular Clusters in the Near-infrared. I. RR Lyrae in Reticulum

Anupam Bhardwaj, Susmita Das, Prashant Nishad +10

Reticulum is an old, metal-poor, and sparsely populated globular cluster in the outer regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and hosts a rich population of RR Lyrae stars. Bei…

astro-ph.SR2026

Photometric metallicity of Galactic RR Lyrae stars in the Gaia DR3 era

Mahiguhappriya Prakash, Susmita Das, Harinder P. Singh +1

We present a new, calibrated -band relationship between pulsation period , Fourier parameter , and metallicity [Fe/H] for galactic RR Lyrae stars from the Gaia survey…

astro-ph.SR2026

Stellar Variability and Distance Indicators in the Near-infrared in Nearby Galaxies. II. Pulsating Stars in the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal

Chow-Choong Ngeow, Anupam Bhardwaj, Prashant Nishad +1

We present homogeneous, near-infrared ( bands) time-series observations of the classical Carina dwarf Spheroidal (dSph) galaxy to determine accurate and precise distances us…

astro-ph.SR2025

Type II Cepheids: Period-Luminosity-Metallicity relations for the Population II distance scale

Susmita Das, Anupam Bhardwaj, Marcella Marconi

Type II Cepheids are a class of pulsating variable stars that play a critical role in our understanding of stellar evolution, distance measurement and tracing the structure and kin…

astro-ph.GA2025

Multiwavelength study of observed and predicted pulsation properties of First overtone Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds

Kerdaris Kurbah, Shashi M. Kanbur, Sukanta Deb +4

We present a detailed analysis of the light curves and pulsation properties of First Overtone (FO) Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) obtained using observations and predictio…

astro-ph.SR2025

Variable stars in Galactic globular clusters II. Population II Cepheids

Mauricio Cruz Reyes, Richard I. Anderson, Susmita Das

We identified a sample of 88 bona fide Population II Cepheids (henceforth referred to as Cepheids) and 44 candidates in Galactic globular clusters (GCs). Seventy-eight of the Cephe…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

A theoretical framework for BL Her stars IV. New period-luminosity relations in the Rubin-LSST filters

Susmita Das, László Molnár, Róbert Szabó +5

We present new theoretical light curves in the Rubin-LSST filters for a fine grid of BL Her models computed using MESA-RSP. We also derive new theoretical period-luminosity (PL) an…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 4 cited

A theoretical framework for BL Her stars III. A case study: Robust light curve optimisation in the LMC

Susmita Das, László Molnár, Gábor B. Kovács +8

We carry out an extensive light curve comparison of BL Her stars using observations from Gaia DR3 and stellar pulsation models computed using MESA-RSP with the goal to obtain the b…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

New theoretical instability regions, period-luminosity relations and masses for blue large-amplitude pulsators

Susmita Das, Daniel Jadlovský, László Molnár

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a recently discovered group of hot pulsating stars whose evolutionary status remains uncertain. Their supposed progenitors are either $\s…

astro-ph.SR2024

Bridging theory and observations in stellar pulsations: The impact of convection and metallicity on the instability strips of Classical and Type-II Cepheids

Mami Deka, Earl P. Bellinger, Shashi M. Kanbur +5

The effect of metallicity on the theoretical and empirical period-luminosity (PL) relations of Cepheid variables is not well understood and remains a highly debated issue. Here, we…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

A theoretical framework for BL Her stars -- II. New period-luminosity relations in the Gaia passbands

Susmita Das, László Molnár, Shashi M. Kanbur +6

We present new theoretical period-luminosity (PL) and period-Wesenheit (PW) relations for a fine grid of convective BL Her, the shortest period T2Cs, models computed using MESA-RSP…

astro-ph.GA2023

A multiphase study of classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds- Models and Observations

Kerdaris Kurbah, Shashi M. Kanbur, Sukanta Deb +5

This work presents the study of multiphase relations of classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds for short periods (log P < 1) and long periods (log P > 1). From the analysis, i…

astro-ph.SR2023

A study of the stellar photosphere-hydrogen ionization front interaction in Scuti stars

Mami Deka, Shashi M. Kanbur, Sukanta Deb +1

Pulsating variable Scuti stars are intermediate-mass stars with masses in the range of and spectral types between and . They can be found at the inte…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

Correlated Short-Timescale Hard-Soft X-ray Variability of the Blazars Mrk 421 and 1ES 1959+650 using

Susmita Das, Ritaban Chatterjee

We study simultaneous soft ( keV) and hard ( keV) X-ray light curves at a total of eight epochs during of two TeV blazars Mrk 421 and 1ES 1959+650 ob…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 5 cited

Predicting light curves of RR Lyrae variables using artificial neural network based interpolation of a grid of pulsation models

Nitesh Kumar, Anupam Bhardwaj, Harinder P. Singh +4

We present a new technique to generate the light curves of RRab stars in different photometric bands ( and bands) using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). A pre-computed grid…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

A multiphase study of theoretical and observed light curves of classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds

Kerdaris Kurbah, Sukanta Deb, Shashi M. Kanbur +5

We present an analysis of the theoretical and observed light curve parameters of the fundamental mode (FU) classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds in - and - photometric…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 6 cited

Period-Colour and Amplitude-Colour relations for OGLE- Scuti stars in the Galactic Bulge and LMC

Mami Deka, Shashi M. Kanbur, Sukanta Deb +4

We present an analysis on the behaviour of the Galactic bulge and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Scuti stars in terms of period-colour and amplitude-colour (PCAC) relations a…

astro-ph.SR2018

Time-series analyses of Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables in the wide-field variability surveys

A. Bhardwaj, S. M. Kanbur, M. Marconi +5

We discuss time-series analyses of classical Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds at multiple wavelengths. We adopt the Fourier decomposition meth…