9 papers
On the Eccentricity Distribution and Tidal Evolution of Transiting Brown Dwarfs
Thiago Ferreira, Malena Rice
Brown dwarfs on short-period orbits populate an intermediate regime between hot Jupiters and tight stellar binaries, lying at the intersection of possible evolutionary avenues. The…
Red-Giant Asteroseismology of Low-Mass Population III Stars
Thiago Ferreira, Earl P. Bellinger, Ebraheem Farag +1
Low-mass stars from the first epoch of star formation may still persist in the Milky Way and its satellite dwarf galaxies today; however, their detection is confounded by surface p…
Evolution of Low-Mass Population III Stars: Convection, Mass Loss, Nucleosynthesis, and Neutrinos
Thiago Ferreira, Earl P. Bellinger, Ebraheem Farag +1
The first stars likely formed from pristine clouds, marking a transformative epoch after the dark ages by initiating reionisation and synthesising the first heavy elements. Among t…
Giant Planets and Eccentric Orbits Are Common Around Galactic Thick Disc Stars
Thiago Ferreira, Jhon Yana Galarza, Henrique Reggiani +15
Planet formation in the Galactic thick disc is expected to be inefficient---low solid reservoirs, short disc lifetimes, and harsh irradiation environments should conspire to inhibi…
Extreme Lithium Depletion in Solar Twins: Challenging Non-Standard Mixing Models
Isabelle Winnick, Jhon Yana Galarza, Henrique Reggiani +12
Lithium (Li) is a powerful tracer of stellar mixing, gradually depleted in solar twins by non-standard transport below the convective zone. Here, we identify six new solar twins wi…
HIP 8522: A Puzzling Young Solar Twin with the Lowest Detected Lithium
Jhon Yana Galarza, Diego Lorenzo-Oliveira, Thiago Ferreira +8
We present HIP 8522, a young solar twin with the lowest detected lithium, potentially a field blue straggler or the result of episodic early accretion. Its stellar parameters ($T_{…
Detailed abundances of the planet-hosting TOI-1173 A/B system: Possible evidence of planet engulfment in a very wide binary
Jhon Yana Galarza, Henrique Reggiani, Thiago Ferreira +7
Over the last decade, studies of large samples of binary systems identified chemical anomalies, and showed that they might be attributed to planet formation or planet engulfment. H…
TOI-1173 A : The First Inflated Super-Neptune in a Wide Binary System
Jhon Yana Galarza, Thiago Ferreira, Diego Lorenzo-Oliveira +8
Among Neptunian mass exoplanets ( M), puffy hot Neptunes are extremely rare, and their unique combination of low mass and extended radii implies very low density ($…
A Benchmark White Dwarf-Ultracool Dwarf Wide Field Binary
Thiago Ferreira, Roberto K. Saito, Dante Minniti +8
We present the discovery and multi-wavelength characterisation of VVV J1438-6158 AB, a new field wide-binary system consisting of a 4.6(+5.5-2.4) Gyr and Teff = 9500+/-125 K DA whi…