7 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…