12 papers
The unique capabilities of HST for stellar physics: Probing Atmospheric Structure, Chromospheres, and Mass Loss of Evolved Stars
Maryam Saberi, Graham Harper, Jacco Th. van Loon +10
Evolved stars are among the primary sources of chemical enrichment and dust production in galaxies. During the giant phases, stars return a substantial fraction of their mass to th…
The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies-VIII. A Census of Long-Period Variable Stars across the Andromeda Dwarf Satellite System
Hedieh Abdollahi, Atefeh Javadi, Jacco Th. van Loon +6
We present a comprehensive catalog, in the Sloan and Harris filters, of long-period variable (LPV) stars in the spheroidal dwarf satellites of the Andromeda galaxy, based o…
Metallicity Effects on Machine Learning Classification of Dusty Stellar Sources in the Magellanic Clouds
Sepideh Ghaziasgar, Mahdi Abdollahi, Atefeh Javadi +4
Differences in metallicity between the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) offer an opportunity to examine whether environmental metallicity affects t…
Comparison of Photometric and Spectroscopic Labels in Classifying Dusty Stellar Sources Using Machine Learning in the Magellanic Clouds
Sepideh Ghaziasgar, Mahdi Abdollahi, Atefeh Javadi +4
Dusty stellar sources, including young stellar objects (YSOs) and evolved stars such as oxygen- and carbon-rich AGBs (OAGBs, CAGBs), red supergiants (RSGs), and post-AGB stars (PAG…
Long-period variable stars in NGC 147 and NGC 185-II. Their dust production
Hamidreza Mahani, Atefeh Javadi, Jacco van Loon +6
This study presents a comparative analysis of mass-loss and dust-production rates in the dwarf galaxies NGC 147 and NGC 185, focusing on long-period variables (LPVs) and pulsating…
Discovery of SiC and Iron Dust Around AGB Stars in the very Metal-Poor Sextans A Dwarf Galaxy with JWST: Implications for Dust Production at High Redshift
M. L. Boyer, G. C. Sloan, A. Nanni +23
Low-resolution infrared spectroscopy from JWST confirms the presence of SiC and likely metallic iron dust around asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the Sextans A dwarf galaxy,…