2 papers
astro-ph.SR2026
No country for old stars -Spectroscopic confirmation of the first intermediate-age RR Lyrae in the open cluster Trumpler 5
Valentina D'Orazi, Cecilia Mateu, Giuliano Iorio +13
RR Lyrae stars are widely considered tracers of ancient (greater than 10 Gyr), metal-poor stellar populations. However, recent kinematic and photometric studies suggest the existen…
astro-ph.SR2026
Testing models for fully and partially stripped low-mass stars with Gaia: Implications for hot subdwarfs, binary RR Lyrae, and black hole impostors
Pranav Nagarajan, Kareem El-Badry, Alexey Bobrick +4
When low-mass ( ) red giants lose their envelopes to a companion just before the helium flash, the resulting mass transfer can produce binaries hosting hot s…