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most citedA spectroscopic and kinematic survey of fast hot subdwarfs

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16 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Intermediate-mass runaway and hypervelocity star candidates in DESI DR1

Aakash Bhat, Matti Dorsch, Ulrich Heber +2

Runaway stars ejected from the Galactic disc span a range of velocities, with two extreme regimes of particular interest. Hyper-runaway stars reach velocities approaching the local…

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

Toward 3D orbits of wide sdO/B binaries I. Six composite systems spatially resolved with VLTI/GRAVITY

K. Deshmukh, S. Geier, H. Sana +7

Hot subdwarf stars (sdO/Bs) are widely considered to be products of binary evolution. A significant fraction of them are found in long-period or wide binaries ( d) with main…

astro-ph.IM2026

Studying hot evolved stars with ultraviolet spectroscopy

Stephan Geier, Nicole Reindl, Matti Dorsch +7

Hot evolved stars are key objects to reconstruct the various evolutionary pathways of Sun-like stars, to probe binary interactions and the physics of supernovae. They serve as powe…

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★ 1 cited

Discovery of a runaway star likely ejected by a Type Iax Supernova

A. Bhat, M. Hollands, M. Dorsch +5

Over the past decade, runaway stars have been identified, believed to originate either as surviving donors of Type Ia supernovae or as partially deflagrated accretors producing Typ…

astro-ph.SR2026

Spectral evolution of hot hybrid white dwarfs: II. Photometry

Semih Filiz, Nicole Reindl, David Jones +4

We present a photometric analysis of 19 DA and 13 DAO white dwarfs (WDs) with effective temperatures exceeding 60 kK, building on the spectral analysis reported in the first paper…

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.SR2025★ 5 cited

The binary fraction of Blue Horizontal-Branch (BHB) Stars

Yanjun Guo, Kun Chen, Zhenwei Li +6

Blue horizontal-branch (BHB) stars are old, low-mass, metal-poor stars that serve as important tracers of the Galactic halo structure, kinematics, and evolution.Understanding their…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

How an overweight and rapidly rotating PG 1159 star in the Galactic halo challenges evolutionary models

Nina Mackensen, Nicole Reindl, Klaus Werner +2

PG 1159 stars are thought to be progenitors of the majority of H-deficient white dwarfs. Their unusual He-, C-, and O-dominated surface composition is typically believed to result…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

The -processes nucleosynthesis during the formation of He-rich hot-subdwarf stars

T. Battich, M. M. Miller Bertolami, A. Weiss +3

It has been shown that proton ingestion episodes can happen in the formation of hot-subdwarf stars, and that neutron-capture processes are possible in those cases. Moreover, some h…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 11 cited

A spectroscopic and kinematic survey of fast hot subdwarfs

S. Geier, U. Heber, A. Irrgang +19

Hot subdwarfs (sdO/B) are the stripped helium cores of red giants formed by binary interactions. Close hot subdwarf binaries with massive white dwarf companions have been proposed…