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It is now known that the emission from radio pulsars can vary over a wide range of timescales, from fractions of seconds to decades. However, it is not yet known if long- and short-term emission variability are caused by the same physical…

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We analyse TESS light curves for 70 southern $\lambda$ Boo stars to identify binaries and to determine which of them pulsate as $\delta$ Scuti stars. We find two heartbeat stars and two eclipsing binaries among the sample. We calculate that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 S. J. Murphy , E. Paunzen , T. R. Bedding , P. Walczak , D. Huber

Using a nonlocal time-dependent theory of convection, we have calculated the linear non-adiabatic oscillations of the Horizontal Branch (HB) stars, with both the dynamic and thermodynamic coupling between convection and oscillations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. R. Xiong , Q. L. Cheng , L. Deng

Low- and intermediate-mass stars eject much of their mass during the late, red giant branch (RGB) phase of evolution. The physics of their strong stellar winds is still poorly understood. In the standard model, stellar pulsations extend the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Iain McDonald , Albert Zijlstra

Ground-based optical photometry of the counterparts of High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) has revealed the presence of periodic modulations on timescales of ~0.3-0.5 d. More recent space-based observations Corot and TESS of OB and Be stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Gavin Ramsay , Pasi Hakala , Philip A. Charles

Pulsating behavior is a universal phenomenon in versatile fields. In nonlinear dissipative systems, the solitons could also pulsate under proper conditions and show many interesting dynamics. However, the pulsation dynamics is generally…

A survey for line profile variability in early A-type stars has been performed in order to detect nonradial pulsation signatures. The star HR 6139, with spectral type A2V and estimated T_eff=8800 K, shows evident line profile variations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Antonello , L. Mantegazza , M. Rainer , A. Miglio

Stars with B[e] phenomenon comprise a very diverse group of objects in a different evolutionary status. These objects show common spectral characteristics, including presence of Balmer lines in emission, forbidden lines, and strong infrared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 I. Krtickova , J. Krticka

The power spectrum of light curves from satellites like CoRoT and TESS of massive main-sequence stars show stochastic low-frequency (SLF) variability. To investigate the origin of this phenomenon, we conducted high-resolution 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Praneet Pathak , Simon Blouin , Falk Herwig , Paul R. Woodward

Excitation of radial oscillations in population I (X=0.7, Z=0.02) red supergiants is investigated using the solution of the equations of radiation hydrodynamics and turbulent convection. The core helium burning stars with masses 8M_odot <=…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Yuri A. Fadeyev

We have used AAVSO visual and photoelectric V data, and the AAVSO time-series package VSTAR and the Lomb-Scargle time-series algorithm to determine improved pulsation periods, "long secondary periods" (LSPs). and their amplitudes in 51…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-11 John R. Percy , Henry Leung

In solar-like oscillators, acoustic waves are excited by turbulent motion in the convective envelope and propagate inward, generating a variety of standing pressure modes. When combining together the power of several solar acoustic modes,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 E. Panetier , R. A. García , S. N. Breton , A. Jiménez , T. Foglizzo

We traced the origin of very long-periodic pulsations (VLPs) in type-I burst chains on 2024 February 14. Seven successive and repetitive pulsation structures appeared in radio dynamic spectra in the metric waveband, which were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Dong Li , Lei Lu , Jingye Yan , Xinhua Zhao , Bing Wang , Chengming Tan , Jianping Li , Zongjun Ning

Random changes in pulsation period occur in cool pulsating Mira variables, Type A, B, and C semiregular variables, RV Tauri variables, and in most classical Cepheids. The physical processes responsible for such fluctuations are uncertain,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-23 David G. Turner , Leonid N. Berdnikov , J. R. Percy , Mohamed Abdel-Sabour Abdel-Latif

In recent years, it has been discovered that massive stars commonly exhibit a non-coherent form of variability in their light curves referred to as stochastic low frequency (SLF) variability. Various physical mechanisms can produce SLF…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-19 D. M. Bowman

Pulsating variables are prevalent in the classical {\delta} Scuti instability strip of intermediate-age open star clusters. The cluster membership of these stars facilitates a comparative analysis of their evolution in analogous…

Long-period variables (LPVs) are evolved red giant and supergiant stars whose pulsations provide unique insights into late stages of stellar evolution and serve as essential tools in modern astrophysics. Their period-luminosity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Dorota M. Skowron , Igor Soszyński

Luminous blue variable (LBV) stars are very massive, luminous, unstable stars that suffer frequent eruptions. In the last few years, these stars have been proposed as the direct progenitors of some core-collapse supernovae (SNe),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Vikram V Dwarkadas

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a recently discovered class of short-period pulsating variable stars. In this work, we present new information on these stars based on photometric and spectroscopic data obtained for known and new…

Lack of high-precision long-term continuous photometric data for large samples of stars has prevented the large-scale exploration of pulsational variability in the OB star regime. As a result, the candidates for in-depth asteroseismic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 S. Burssens , S. Simón-Díaz , D. M. Bowman , G. Holgado , M. Michielsen , A. de Burgos , N. Castro , R. H. Barbá , C. Aerts