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20242026
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9 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Evolution of wide O star binaries through their LBV stage. Population synthesis with mass-ejection-driven orbital evolution

Xiao-Tian Xu, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Norbert Langer +6

Context. Long-period Wolf-Rayet (WR) star binaries produced by mass transfer are predicted to be abundant, but are observationally rare. This yields constraints on the evolution of…

astro-ph.SR2026

Asteroseismic rotation rates of hot subdwarf B stars hint at transient accretion from leftover common envelope matter

Facundo D. Moyano, Hongwei Ge, Zhanwen Han +6

Asteroseismology enabled measuring the rotation rate in the deep stellar interiors of stars across several evolutionary phases, advancing the theory of angular momentum transport i…

astro-ph.SR2026

Formation of black holes from He stars

Gang Long, Bo Wang, Philipp Podsiadlowski +5

Massive He stars are potential candidates of type Ib/c supernova (SN) progenitors. Understanding their final fates remains a key issue in astrophysics. In this work, we investigate…

astro-ph.HE2026

Pulsations change the structures of massive stars before explosion: interpreting SN 2023ixf and SN 2024ggi

Eva Laplace, Vincent A. Bronner, Fabian R. N. Schneider +1

Massive red supergiants (RSGs) are known to become hydrodynamically unstable before they explode. Still, the vast majority of supernova (SN) models assume RSG progenitors in hydros…

astro-ph.HE2025

Supernova-induced binary-interaction-powered supernovae: a model for SN2022jli

Ryosuke Hirai, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Peter Hoeflich +4

We present 3D hydrodynamical modelling of supernova-induced binary-interaction-powered supernovae; a scenario proposed for the peculiar type Ic supernova SN2022jli. In this scenari…

astro-ph.HE2025

New gravitational-wave data support a bimodal black-hole mass distribution

R. Willcox, F. R. N. Schneider, E. Laplace +7

Detailed stellar evolution and supernova models yield a bimodal black-hole mass distribution with a narrow peak around 10 solar masses from stars within a narrow range of progenito…