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20242026
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9 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

[C/N] Ages and Extra-Mixing for [Fe/H] <- 0.5: Insights from the LMC and SMC

Yuxi Lu, John D. Roberts, Joshua T. Povick +4

The [C/N]-age relation has become a powerful tool for reconstructing the formation history of the Milky Way (MW), providing the largest age sample for field giant stars. However, a…

astro-ph.SR2026

Checking It Twice: Using [C/N]-Masses and Asteroseismic Masses as a Diagnostic of Mass Loss and Transfer on the RGB

John D. Roberts, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Jennifer A. Johnson +1

The surface [C/N] of red giants is correlated with birth mass, but not directly impacted by mass loss. Exploiting this, we compare asteroseismic masses of red giants with the same…

astro-ph.SR2025

Untangling the Sources of Abundance Dispersion in Low-metallicity Stars II: Neutron Capture Elements

Emily J. Griffith, Marissa Blum, David H. Weinberg +4

We present the abundances of 23 elements, including 11 heavy elements (Cu, Zn, Sr, Y, Zr, Ba, La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Eu) for up to 86 metal-poor (-2 < [Fe/H] < -1) subgiants. We use KORG,…

astro-ph.GA2025

Spectroscopic Follow-up of Young High- Dwarf Star Candidates: Still Likely Genuinely Young

Yuxi Lu, Catherine Manea, Maryum Sayeed +9

The question of whether genuinely young high- stars exist has been discussed for over a decade since their discovery from asteroseismology of giant stars as it is challenging t…

astro-ph.EP2025

The Multiband Imaging Survey for High-Alpha PlanetS (MISHAPS) I: Preliminary Constraints on the Occurrence Rate of Hot Jupiters in 47 Tucanae

Alison L. Crisp, Jonas Klüter, Marz L. Newman +14

The first generation of transiting planet searches in globular clusters yielded no detections, and in hindsight, only placed occurrence rate limits slightly higher than the measure…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Data-Driven M Dwarf Model and Detailed Abundances for 17,000 M Dwarfs in SDSS-V

Aida Behmard, Melissa K. Ness, Andrew R. Casey +6

The cool temperatures of M dwarf atmospheres enable complex molecular chemistry, making robust characterization of M dwarf compositions a long-standing challenge. Recent modificati…