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10 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Disco in the Dust: Reflected light at the bow shock around Betelgeuse's companion explains its observed luminosity

Jared A. Goldberg, Meridith Joyce, Anna J. G. O'Grady +6

Recent detections of Orionis B, the putative companion to Betelgeuse, have been reported using multiple instruments and techniques. These include, most recently, a detect…

astro-ph.SR2026

Custom Colors: A Module for Computing Synthetic Photometry On-the-Fly in Stellar Evolution Calculations, Integrated with MESA and Usable with Other Stellar Evolution Codes

Niall Miller, Meridith Joyce, Philip Mocz

Stellar evolution simulations predict physical quantities such as luminosity, whereas broadband photometric observations measure flux in specific bandpasses; converting the predict…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Milky Way Bulge Extra-Tidal Star Survey: NGC 6569

Joanne Hughes, Andrea Kunder, Kevin Covey +25

We present spectroscopic evidence for tidal debris associated with the bulge globular cluster NGC 6569, based on medium-resolution (R ~ 11,000) Anglo-Australian Telescope spectra o…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Two-infall Model Revisited: Constraints on Milky Way Bulge Assembly from >30,000 Galactic Chemical Evolution Models and Machine Learning

Niall Miller, Meridith Joyce, Christian I. Johnson +4

We constrain the formation history of the Milky Way bulge using a two-infall galactic chemical evolution (GCE) algorithm implemented in the N'OMEGA+ code. We recover a best-fit sce…

astro-ph.SR2025

Stranger Things: A Grid-based Survey of Strange Modes in Post-Main Sequence Models

D. Tarczay-Nehéz, L. Molnár, M. Joyce

We present a systematic survey of strange mode pulsations in Cepheids using MESA and for the linear stability analysis, MESA RSP. Our model grid spans in mass and […

astro-ph.SR2025

Betelgeuse's Buddy: X-Ray Constraints on the Nature of Ori B

Anna J. G. O'Grady, Brendan O'Connor, Jared A. Goldberg +8

The d Long Secondary Period of Betelgeuse's optical lightcurve and radial velocity motivated the prediction of a low-mass stellar companion, expected to be at maximal a…