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An R Coronae Borealis (RCB) star is a rare type of supergiant star that is increasingly thought to be the evolved merger product of two white dwarfs. Recently, many of them have been found distributed in a thin disk structure embedded…

R Coronae Borealis stars (RCBs) are rare, hydrogen-deficient, carbon-rich supergiant variable stars that are likely the evolved merger products of pairs of CO and He white dwarfs. Only 55 RCB stars are known in our galaxy and their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. Tisserand , G. C. Clayton , D. L. Welch , B. Pilecki , L. Wyrzykowski , D. Kilkenny

It is increasingly suspected that the rare R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars - hydrogen-deficient and carbon-rich supergiant stars - are the products of mergers of CO/He white-dwarf binary systems in the intermediate mass regime…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 P. Tisserand , G. C. Clayton , M. S. Bessell , D. L. Welch , D. Kamath , P. R. Wood , P. Wils , Ł. Wyrzykowski , P. Mróz , A. Udalski

We have identified five new R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the Galactic bulge using the MACHO Project photometry database, raising the total number of known Galactic RCB stars to about 40. We have obtained spectra to confirm the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Zaniewski , Geoffrey C. Clayton , D. L. Welch , Karl D. Gordon , D. Minniti , K. H. Cook

EROS 2 (Experience de Recherche d'Objets Sombres) conducted a survey of the SMC between July 1996 and February 2003 in two EROS broad-band colours, V_E and R_E. The photometric data of 4.2 million stars have been searched for behaviour…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Tisserand , J. B. Marquette , J. P. Beaulieu , P. de Laverny

R Coronae Borealis stars (RCBs) are hydrogen-deficient and carbon-rich supergiant stars. They are very rare, as only $\sim50$ are actually known in our Galaxy. Interestingly, RCBs are strongly suspected to be the evolved merger product of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Patrick Tisserand

The R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars are rare hydrogen-deficient, carbon-rich, supergiants, best known for their spectacular declines in brightness at irregular intervals. Efforts to discover more RCB stars have more than doubled the number…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-20 Geoffrey C. Clayton

R Coronae Borealis stars (RCB) are a rare type of evolved carbon-rich supergiant stars that are increasingly thought to result from the merger of two white dwarfs, called the Double degenerate scenario. This scenario is also studied as a…

We report the discovery of two new R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the MACHO project photometry database. The identification of both stars has been confirmed spectroscopically. One is a cool RCB star…

We report the discovery of eight new R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the MACHO project photometry database. The discovery of these new stars increases the number of known RCB stars in the LMC to…

This paper presents the initial results of a multi-site photometric programme to examine the extraordinary behaviour displayed by 18 R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). RCB stars exhibit a unique variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robyn M. Woollands , P. L. Cottrell , A. Udalski

The R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars are rare hydrogen--deficient, carbon--rich supergiants. They undergo extreme, irregular declines in brightness of many magnitudes due to the formation of thick clouds of carbon dust. It is thought that RCB…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Amber Lauer , Emmanouil Chatzopoulos , Geoffrey C. Clayton , Juhan Frank , Dominic C. Marcello

We report the discovery of R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) using the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). RCB stars are rare hydrogen-deficient, carbon-rich supergiant variables, most likely the merger products of…

We present results from a systematic infrared (IR) census of R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the Milky Way, using data from the Palomar Gattini IR (PGIR) survey. R Coronae Borealis stars are dusty, erratic variable stars presumably formed…

R Coronae Borealis stars (RCBs) are cool supergiants that display non-periodic deep dips in brightness. Recently, a group of `Hot RCB stars` has been discovered to be fast evolving across the HR diagram, as these stars leave the RCB region,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Bradley E. Schaefer

The R Coronae Borealis (RCB) variables are rare, hydrogen-deficient, carbon-rich supergiants known for large, erratic declines in brightness due to dust formation. Recently, the number of known RCB stars in the Milky Way and Magellanic…

The study of extended, cold dust envelopes surrounding R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars began with their discovery by IRAS. RCB stars are carbon-rich supergiants characterized by their extreme hydrogen deficiency and for their irregular and…

V532 Oph has been found to be a member of the rare, hydrogen-deficient R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars from new photometric and spectroscopic data reported in this paper. The lightcurve of V532 Oph shows the sudden, deep, irregularly spaced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Geoffrey C. Clayton , D. Kilkenny , P. Wils , D. L. Welch

R Coronae Borealis stars (RCBs) are the best candidates to be the products of white dwarf mergers in the intermediate mass range ($0.4<M_{tot}<1.1$ M$_{\odot}$). After a merger, a He envelope surrounds a CO core, and a short-lived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-24 P. Tisserand , G. C. Clayton , D. L. Welch

We present the results of a machine-learning (ML) based search for new R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars and DY Persei-like stars (DYPers) in the Galaxy using cataloged light curves from the All-Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) Catalog of Variable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-09 A. A. Miller , J. W. Richards , J. S. Bloom , S. B. Cenko , J. M. Silverman , D. L. Starr , K. G. Stassun
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