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astro-ph.SR2026

Characterizing bright Scuti pulsators using TESS light curves:II. Pulsation amplitude and energy distributions

Prasad Mani, Timothy Bedding, Simon Murphy +2

Pulsations in Scuti stars exhibit a wide range of excited frequencies and amplitudes, but the underlying principles governing their amplitude distribution remain unclear. We re…

astro-ph.SR2026

Ejecta clumps revealed by study of reverse-shocked ejecta through MUSE integral field spectroscopy of SNR 0509-67.5

Priyam Das, Ivo Seitenzahl, J. Martin Laming +3

We report the discovery of a spatially resolved clumpy ejecta structure in the reverse-shocked ejecta of SNR 0509-67.5, revealed through multiple faint and broad forbidden coronal…

astro-ph.SR2026

Deep MUSE observations of SNR 0509-67.5 reveal a double degenerate merger progenitor

Priyam Das, Ivo R. Seitenzahl, Gilles Ferrand +5

Deep MUSE observations of SNR 0509-67.5 reveal that the coronal [Fe\,\textsc{xiv}] 5303 emission line appears with either one or two velocity components across the entire…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Scuti pulsator occurrence as a function of age, , rotation, and metallicity

Ian Berry, Daniel Huber, Yaguang Li +3

Many A- and F- type stars do not display Scuti pulsations, despite being located within the instability strip. We use photometry from the TESS Mission to discover and study …

astro-ph.SR2026

Population synthesis of delta Scuti stars: the instability strip, period-luminosity relation, and large-separation distribution

Simon J. Murphy, Anuj Gautam

Interpreting the observed properties of intermediate-mass stars requires accounting for rotation, binarity, intrinsic population diversity, and measurement uncertainty. We combine…

astro-ph.SR2026

Wildly Oscillating Stars -- Unexplained dense ridge-like frequency agglomerations in A and F type pulsators

V. Antoci, J. Labadie-Bartz, M. Swiech +14

We investigate the origin of the dense, ridge-like frequency clusters observed in a subset of A and F type pulsating stars, which we refer to as `wildly oscillating' stars (WOS). T…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 2 cited

Helium emission from Balmer-dominated shocks in Type Ia supernova remnants provides constraints to their progenitor systems

Priyam Das, Ivo Rolf Seitenzahl, Parviz Ghavamian +4

Balmer-dominated shocks in Type Ia supernova remnants offer powerful probes into collisionless shock physics and hints towards supernova progenitor environments. Prior studies focu…

astro-ph.SR2025

Discovery of 79 Scuti Stars in NGC 3532 Suggests a Decrease of Pulsator Occurrence with Age

Ian Berry, Daniel Huber, Yaguang Li +3

Many A-F type stars do not display Scuti pulsations, despite being located within the instability strip. Open clusters provide a unique opportunity to study Scuti pulsation…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Characterizing bright Scuti pulsators using TESS lightcurves

Prasad Mani, Timothy R. Bedding, Mara Bernizzoni +2

We present a study of bright, young Scuti stars near the zero-age main sequence using TESS light curves and Gaia DR3 data. From a sample of 2041 stars with G<7 and $G_{BP}-G_{R…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

Modelling Scuti pulsations: A new grid of p, g, and f modes across pre-main-sequence to post-main-sequence evolution

Anuj Gautam, Simon J. Murphy, Timothy R. Bedding

Space-based photometry reveals regular high-frequency patterns in many young Scuti stars. These pulsations provide a powerful means of inferring stellar properties, particularl…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS

Hans Kjeldsen, Timothy R. Bedding, Yaguang Li +28

We present time-series radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and, for the first time, SONG-Australia. We also analyse a s…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

The Scuti stars of the Cep--Her Complex. I: Pulsator fraction, rotation, asteroseismic large spacings, and the relation

Simon J. Murphy, Timothy R. Bedding, Anuj Gautam +2

We identify delta Scuti pulsators amongst members of the recently-discovered Cep--Her Complex using light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). We use Gaia…

astro-ph.SR2024

Realistic Uncertainties for Fundamental Properties of Asteroseismic Red Giants and the Interplay Between Mixing Length, Metallicity and

Yaguang Li, Timothy R. Bedding, Daniel Huber +8

Asteroseismic modelling is a powerful way to derive stellar properties. However, the derived quantities are limited by built-in assumptions used in stellar models. This work presen…

astro-ph.SR2024

Oscillation Frequencies of Moderately Rotating Delta Scuti Stars: Asymmetric Mode Splittings Due to Non-spherical Distortion

Zhao Guo, Timothy R. Bedding, A. A. Pamyatnykh +5

We find that the observed pressure-mode rotational splittings of slowly/moderately rotating Delta Scuti stars and Beta Cephei stars mostly have a positive asymmetry. That is, the l…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

A New Catalog of 100,000 Variable \emph{TESS} A-F Stars Reveals a Correlation Between Scuti Pulsator Fraction and Stellar Rotation

Keyan Gootkin, Marc Hon, Daniel Huber +3

δ Scuti variables are found at the intersection of the classical instability strip and the main sequence on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. With space-based photometry providing m…

astro-ph.SR2024

The Hybrid Debris Disk Host Star HD 21997 is a High-Frequency Delta Scuti Pulsator

Aldo G. Sepulveda, Timothy R. Bedding, Simon J. Murphy +3

HD 21997 is host to a prototypical "hybrid" debris disk characterized by debris disk-like dust properties and a CO gas mass comparable to a protoplanetary disk. We use Transiting E…

astro-ph.SR2024

Low-amplitude solar-like oscillations in the K5 V star Indi A

Mia S. Lundkvist, Hans Kjeldsen, Timothy R. Bedding +17

We have detected solar-like oscillations in the mid K-dwarf Indi A, making it the coolest dwarf to have measured oscillations. The star is noteworthy for harboring a…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 28 cited

Asteroseismology of the young open cluster NGC 2516 I: Photometric and spectroscopic observations

Gang Li, Conny Aerts, Timothy R. Bedding +8

Asteroseismic modelling of isolated star presents significant challenges due to the difficulty in accurately determining stellar parameters, particularly the stellar age. These cha…

astro-ph.SR2023

Asteroseismology applied to constrain structure parameters of δ Scuti stars

Subrata Kumar Panda, Siddharth Dhanpal, Simon J. Murphy +2

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool to probe the structure of stars. Space-borne instruments like CoRoT, Kepler and TESS have observed the oscillations of numerous stars, among whi…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 17 cited

TIC 308396022: a Scuti-- Doradus hybrid with large-amplitude radial fundamental mode and regular g-mode period spacing

Tao-Zhi Yang, Zhao-Yu Zuo, Gang Li +3

We analyse the pulsating behaviour of TIC 308396022 observed by the TESS mission. The star is a high-amplitude Sct star (HADS) that shows a very rich amplitude spectrum using t…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 35 cited

TESS Cycle 1 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data

D. L. Holdsworth, M. S. Cunha, D. W. Kurtz +41

We present the results of a systematic search for new rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) stars using the 2-min cadence data collected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 26 cited

Tango of celestial dancers: A sample of detached eclipsing binary systems containing g-mode pulsating components. A case study of KIC9850387

S. Sekaran, A. Tkachenko, M. Abdul-Masih +9

Eclipsing binary systems with components that pulsate in gravity modes ( modes) allow for simultaneous and independent constraints of the chemical mixing profiles of stars. We a…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 114 cited

Very regular high-frequency pulsation modes in young intermediate-mass stars

Timothy R. Bedding, Simon J. Murphy, Daniel R. Hey +33

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool for probing the internal structures of stars by using their natural pulsation frequencies. It relies on identifying sequences of pulsation modes…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 57 cited

Pulsation versus metallicism in Am stars as revealed by LAMOST and WASP

B. Smalley, V. Antoci, D. L. Holdsworth +13

We present the results of a study of a large sample of A and Am stars with spectral types from LAMOST and light curves from WASP. We find that, unlike normal A stars, Sct pulsa…