Intermediate-Mass Stripped Stars in the Magellanic Clouds: Forward Modeling the Observed Population Discovered Via UV Excess

Lisa Blomberg, Kareem El-Badry, Bethany Ludwig +2

Stripped stars are hot, helium-rich stars formed when binary interactions remove a star's hydrogen envelope. While low-mass ($\lesssim 1M_{\odot }$) and high-mass ($\gtrsim 8 M_\odot…