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most citedDiscovery of hot subdwarfs with extremely high carbon and oxygen abundances

19 citations · 50 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

A 500 pc volume-limited sample of hot subluminous stars III. The short-period binary population

H. Dawson, M. Dorsch, J. Munday +16

Hot subdwarf stars of spectral types O and B (sdO/B) in binaries form as products of substantial mass loss near the tip of the red giant branch and offer powerful constraints on bi…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Stars on the ascending helium giant branch I. From white dwarf merger to helium giant: the evolutionary state of the rapidly rotating hot subdwarf HE 1518-0948

M. Pritzkuleit, M. Dorsch, M. M. Miller Bertolami +3

Hot subdwarf stars with masses above ascend the helium giant branch after the end of core helium burning, before entering the white dwarf cooling track or exploding a…

astro-ph.SR2026

Two hot pre-white dwarfs inside the red-giant-branch planetary nebula Pa 13 -- Double core evolution or common envelope-induced rejuvenation?

Nicole Reindl, David Jones, Todd Hillwig +4

Close binary central stars of PNe offer a unique window for investigating the conditions immediately following the ejection of a common envelope (CE). Double eclipsing and double-l…

astro-ph.SR2026

The massive hot subdwarf binary LAMOST J065816.72+094343.1

F. Mattig, B. N. Barlow, D. Liu +9

Massive short-period binaries involving hot subdwarf stars (sdO/Bs) are rare but important to constraining pathways for binary star evolution. Moreover, some of the most promising…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 7 cited

A 500 pc volume-limited sample of hot subluminous stars II. Atmospheric parameters, mass distribution, and kinematics

H. Dawson, M. Dorsch, S. Geier +30

We present a quantitative spectroscopic and kinematic analysis of a volume-complete sample of hot subluminous stars within 500 pc of the Sun, assembled using accurate parallax meas…

astro-ph.SR2025

The twin red giant branch system BD+20 5391 A case study of low-mass double-core evolution

M. Kurpas, M. Dorsch, S. Geier +12

Understanding interactions of binary systems on the red giant branch is crucial to understanding the formation of compact stellar remnants such as helium-core white dwarfs (He-WDs)…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

Where are the binaries? -- Searching for blue horizontal-branch stars in binary systems in the inner Galactic Halo

R. Culpan, M. Dorsch, I. Pelisoli +14

Blue horizontal-branch (BHB) stars are evolved low-mass objects that have completed their core hydrogen burning main-sequence (MS) stage and have lost significant mass during the r…

astro-ph.SR2024

Three new hot hydrogen-deficient pre-white dwarfs

Klaus Werner, Nicole Reindl, Max Pritzkuleit +1

We have detected three new hydrogen-deficient (H < 0.001 mass fraction) pre-white dwarfs (WDs) with helium-dominated atmospheres. The first object is a relatively cool PG1159 star…

astro-ph.SR2024

A 500 pc volume-limited sample of hot subluminous stars I. Space density, scale height, and population properties

H. Dawson, S. Geier, U. Heber +25

We present the first volume-limited sample of spectroscopically confirmed hot subluminous stars out to 500 pc, defined using the accurate parallax measurements from the {\em Gaia}…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 19 cited

The bright blue side of the night sky: Spectroscopic survey of bright and hot (pre-) white dwarfs

Nicole Reindl, Ramazan Islami, Klaus Werner +10

We report on the spectroscopic confirmation of 68 new bright ( mag) and blue (pre-)white dwarfs (WDs). This finding has allowed us to almost double the number of the h…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 19 cited

Discovery of hot subdwarfs with extremely high carbon and oxygen abundances

Klaus Werner, Nicole Reindl, Stephan Geier +1

Helium rich subdwarf O stars (sdOs) are hot compact stars in a pre-white dwarf evolutionary state. Most of them have effective temperatures and surface gravities in the range Teff…