3 papers
astro-ph.SR2026
A Not-So-Compact Companion: Massive, Oversize White Dwarf in a Post-Common Envelope Eclipsing Binary
Erin M. Motherway, Evan Linck, Robert D. Mathieu +5
We provide a detailed characterization of 2M07515777+1807352, a post-common envelope eclipsing binary system with a 10.3 d, nearly, but not quite, circular orbit (e = 0.02). This s…
astro-ph.SR2025
Blue Stragglers and Friends: Initial Evolutionary Pathways in Close Low-Mass Binaries: Literature Review
Robert D. Mathieu, Onno R. Pols
The scope of this literature review is observations of the products of first-stage evolution for binaries having components with M < 2 . A taxonomy for these products comp…
astro-ph.SR2025
Rotationally Driven Ultraviolet Emission of Red Giant Stars II. Metallicity, Activity, Binarity and Sub-subgiants
Don Dixon, Keivan G. Stassun, Robert D. Mathieu +2
Red Giant Branch (RGB) stars are overwhelmingly observed to rotate very slowly compared to main-sequence stars, but a few percent of them show rapid rotation and high activity, oft…