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We study the recently discovered Be/X-ray pulsar MAXI J0655--013 using the 2022 \emph{NuSTAR} observations. The paper is the first detailed study of the timing and spectral properties of the source. The pulse profiles of the pulsar vary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Binay Rai , Mohammed Tobrej , Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

A nonlinear development of radial pulsation instability to a resonant excitation of nonradial modes is studied. The theory covers the cases of axisymmetric (m=0) modes as well as (m,-m) pairs. Adopting a simplified treatment of the mode…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rafal M. Nowakowski

The 6.7 GHz methanol maser emission, a tracer of forming massive stars, sometimes shows enigmatic periodic flux variations over several 10-100 days. In this Letter, we propose that this periodic variations could be explained by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kohei Inayoshi , Koichiro Sugiyama , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuhito Motogi , Kei E. I. Tanaka

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) of Sun and stars are challenging for stellar flare models. The white light stellar QPPs in the periodicity region of tens of second are unexplored yet. On the basis of observations with the 6-m telescope BTA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Alexander Panferov , Grigory Beskin , Sergey Karpov , Olga Maryeva

Under the Nainital-Cape Survey, eight $\delta\,$Scuti type pulsators have been discovered with the pulsation periods in the range of several minutes to few hours. In order to understand these observed pulsational variabilities, we have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Abhay Pratap Yadav

We calculated a grid of evolutionary tracks of rotating models with masses between 1.0 and 3.0 $M_{\odot}$ and a resolution $\delta M \leq 0.02$ $M_{\odot}$, which can be used to study the effects of rotation on stellar evolutions and on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Wuming Yang , Shaolan Bi , Xiangcun Meng

Following the discovery of blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) by the OGLE survey, additional hot, high-amplitude pulsating stars have been discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility. It has been proposed that all of these objects are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 Conor M. Byrne , C. Simon Jeffery

Rapidly rotating late M dwarfs are observed in two different branches of magnetic activity, although they operate in the same stellar parameter range. Current empirical evidence indicates that M dwarfs with spectral types ranging from M3 /…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Giuseppina Nigro , Francesco Berrilli , Giuseppe Bono , Dario Del Moro , Luca Giovannelli , Valentina Penza , Raffaele Reda

Evolutionary tracks from the zero age main sequence to the asymptotic giant branch were computed for stars with initial masses 2M_\odot <= Mzams <= 5M_\odot and metallicity Z=0.02. Some models of evolutionary sequences were used as initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Yu. A. Fadeyev

M dwarfs are known to flare on timescales from minutes to hours, with flux increases of several magnitudes in the blue/near-UV. These frequent, powerful events, which are caused by magnetic reconnection, will have a strong observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Eric J. Hilton , Suzanne L. Hawley , Adam F. Kowalski , Jon Holtzman

The large-scale magnetic fields detected at the surface of about 10% of hot stars extend into the stellar interior, where they may alter the structure. Deep inner regions of stars are only observable using asteroseismology. Here, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 B. Buysschaert , C. Aerts , D. M. Bowman , C. Johnston , T. Van Reeth , M. G. Pedersen , S. Mathis , C. Neiner

Stability of the r-modes in rapidly rotating white dwarf stars is investigated. Improved estimates of the growth times of the gravitational-radiation driven instability in the r-modes of the observed DQ Her objects are found to be longer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Lee Lindblom

PG 1159-035, a pre-white dwarf with T=140000 K, is the prototype of the PG1159 spectroscopic class and the DOV pulsating class. Changes in the star cause variations in its oscillation periods. The measurement of temporal change in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. S. Costa , S. O. Kepler

We investigate the pulsation driving mechanism responsible for the long-period photometric variations observed in LS IV-14{\deg}116, a subdwarf B star showing a He-enriched atmospheric composition. To this end, we perform detailed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-11 M. M. Miller Bertolami , A. H. Córsico , L. G. Althaus

We present results from the volume-complete spectroscopic survey of 0.1-0.3M$_\odot$ M dwarfs within 15pc. This work discusses the active sample without close binary companions, providing a comprehensive picture of these 123 stars with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Emily K Pass , Jennifer G Winters , David Charbonneau , Jonathan M Irwin , Amber A Medina

We introduce a model for pulsars in which non-radial oscillations of high spherical degree (l) aligned to the magnetic axis of a spinning neutron star reproduce the morphological features of pulsar beams. In our model, rotation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Christopher Clemens , R. Rosen

The radial profiles of gas, stars, and far ultraviolet radiation in 20 dwarf Irregular galaxies are converted to stability parameters and scale heights for a test of the importance of two-dimensional (2D) instabilities in promoting star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Deidre A. Hunter

Before reaching their quiescent terminal white-dwarf cooling branch, some low-mass helium-core white dwarf stellar models experience a number of nuclear flashes which greatly reduce their hydrogen envelopes. Just before the occurrence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Leila M. Calcaferro , Alejandro H. Córsico , Leandro G. Althaus , Keaton J. Bell

We report the discovery of 16 detached M-dwarf eclipsing binaries with J<16 mag and provide a detailed characterisation of three of them, using high-precision infrared light curves from the WFCAM Transit Survey (WTS). Such systems provide…

We present N-body/SPH simulations of the evolution of an isolated dwarf galaxy including a detailed model for the ISM, star formation and stellar feedback. Depending on the strength of the feedback, the modelled dwarf galaxy shows periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. I. Pelupessy , P. P. van der Werf , V. Icke