5 papers
V407 Vul: a triple star system with an AM CVn detectable by gravitational wave observatories
James Munday, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Nicole Reindl +23
The AM CVn class includes mass transferring, ultra-compact double white dwarf binaries with orbital periods on the timescale of minutes. A long-standing puzzle is that none of the…
Discovery of the first outbursting hot subdwarf binary: ZTF J0007+4804
E. Stringer, T. Kupfer, K. Deshmukh +10
Hot subdwarf binaries with white dwarf companions with orbital periods of less than two hours are progenitor candidates for massive single white dwarfs as well as a variety of ther…
Spectroscopic follow-up of hot subdwarf variables found in ZTF -- Atmospheric and fundamental properties of radial-mode sdB pulsators
Corey W. Bradshaw, Thomas Kupfer, Alekzander R. Kosakowski +2
Hot subdwarf variables (sdBVs) that display large-amplitude (1%), short-period variability, as a result of radial-mode pulsations, have recently become objects of interest as th…
New Level Resolved Ground and Excited State Pb III, IV, V & VI Photoionization Cross Sections for Heavy Metal Subdwarf Modeling
David J. Dougan, Matti Dorsch, Laura J. A. Scott +3
High abundances of various lead (Pb) species have been identified in the spectra of many Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars and O- and B-type subdwarfs (sdO/B). Additional atomic…
A New LISA-Detectable Type Ia Supernova Progenitor in the Southern Sky: SMSS J1138-5139
Alekzander Kosakowski, Matti Dorsch, Warren R. Brown +3
We present the discovery and analysis of a nearby eclipsing ultra-compact accreting binary at coordinates 11:38:10.91 51:39:49.15 (SMSS J11385139), the first well-constrained…