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Astronomy as a Field: A Guide for Aspiring Astrophysicists
Ava Polzin, Yasmeen Asali, Sanah Bhimani +25
This book was created as part of the SIRIUS B VERGE program to orient students to astrophysics as a broad field. The 2023-2024 VERGE program and the printing of this book is funded…
Detecting Detached Black Hole binaries through Photometric Variability
Chirag Chawla, Sourav Chatterjee, Neev Shah +1
Understanding the connection between the properties of black holes (BHs) and their progenitors is interesting in many branches of astrophysics. Discovering BHs in detached orbits w…
The Q Branch Cooling Anomaly Can Be Explained by Mergers of White Dwarfs and Subgiant Stars
Ken J. Shen, Simon Blouin, Katelyn Breivik
Gaia's exquisite parallax measurements allowed for the discovery and characterization of the Q branch in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, where massive C/O white dwarfs (WDs) pause…
Cataclysmic variables are a key population of gravitational wave sources for LISA
S. Scaringi, K. Breivik, T. B. Littenberg +3
The gravitational wave (GW) signals from the Galactic population of cataclysmic variables (CVs) have yet to be carefully assessed. Here we estimate these signals and evaluate their…
Young Star Clusters Dominate the Production of Detached Black Hole-Star Binaries
Ugo Niccolò Di Carlo, Poojan Agrawal, Carl L. Rodriguez +1
The recent discovery of two detached black hole-star (BH-star) binaries from Gaia's third data release has sparkled interest in understanding the formation mechanisms of these syst…
Many Roads Lead to Lithium: Formation Pathways For Lithium-Rich Red Giants
Maryum Sayeed, Melissa K. Ness, Benjamin T. Montet +8
Stellar models predict that lithium (Li) inside a star is destroyed during the first dredge-up phase, yet 1.2% of red giant stars are Li-rich. We aim to uncover possible origins of…