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7 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Core: Calibrating Massive Star Models against Galactic OB-type Stars

Thibault Lechien, Selma E. de Mink, Stephen Justham +3

The evolution of massive stars above 8 M depends critically on the amount of mixing above the convective core during the main sequence. However, current models typically ex…

physics.gen-ph2026

Multiplicity of Massive Stars at Low Metallicity: Early Results from the BLOeM Campaign

T. Shenar, J. Bodensteiner, M. Abdul-Masih +73

The BLOeM campaign presents the first large‑scale spectroscopic survey of 929 massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, revealing a high intrinsic binary fraction (>70%) among m…

astro-ph.SR2026

SpecFANN: Spectral Fitting via Artificial Neural Networks I. A deep learning based fastwind emulator and fitting suite

M. Abdul-Masih, C. Hawcroft, T. Lechien +14

The importance of massive stars cannot be overstated: they are powerful probes of the early universe, play a vital role in the chemical and mechanical evolution of their host envir…

astro-ph.HE2026

Multipolar Magnetic-Field Inference for PSR J0740+6620 with Neural-Network-Accelerated NICER Pulse-Profile Modeling

Farhana Taiyebah, Constantinos Kalapotharakos, Greg Olmschenk +6

We investigate the multipolar surface magnetic-field structure of the high-mass millisecond pulsar PSR J0740+6620 using the 32-bin bolometric NICER pulse profile of Dittmann et al.…

astro-ph.HE2026

Disentangling the Galactic binary zoo: Machine learning classification of stellar remnant binaries in LISA data

Irwin Khai Cheng Tay, Valeriya Korol, Thibault Lechien

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open a new observational window in the millihertz gravitational-wave band, enabling the detection of tens of thousands of compact…

astro-ph.HE2025

Pioneering High-Speed Pulsar Parameter Estimation Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Greg Olmschenk, Emily Broadbent, Constantinos Kalapotharakos +5

Accurate thermal emission models of neutron stars are essential for constraining the dense matter equation of state. However, incorporating realistic magnetic field structures is c…