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Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a recently discovered group of hot pulsating stars whose evolutionary status remains uncertain. Their supposed progenitors are either $\simeq 0.3M_{\odot}$ shell H-burning stars or $\simeq…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Susmita Das , Daniel Jadlovský , László Molnár

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…

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) make up a rare class of hot pulsating stars with effective temperatures of $\approx$30,000 K and surface gravities of 4.0 - 5.0 dex (cgs). The evolutionary origin and current status of BLAPs is not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Corey W. Bradshaw , Matti Dorsch , Thomas Kupfer , Brad N. Barlow , Uli Heber , Evan B. Bauer , Lars Bildsten , Jan van Roestel

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) represent a recently identified class of pulsating stars distinguished by their short pulsation periods ($2 - 60$ minutes) and asymmetric light curves. This study investigated the evolutionary channel…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Zhengyang Zhang , Chengyuan Wu , Xianfei Zhang , Zhanwen Han , Bo Wang

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are a recently discovered class of pulsating star, believed to be proto-white dwarfs, produced by mass stripping of a red giant when it has a small helium core. An outstanding question is why the stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-02 C. M. Byrne , E. R. Stanway , J. J. Eldridge

The Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) constitute a new class of pulsating stars. They are hot stars with effective temperatures of $T_{\rm eff}\sim 30\,000$ K and surface gravities of $\log g \sim 4.9$, that pulsate with periods in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-21 Alejandro H. Córsico , Alejandra D. Romero , Leandro G. Althaus , Ingrid Pelisoli , S. O. Kepler

The Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) constitute a new class of pulsating stars. They are hot stars with effective temperatures of ~30 000 K and surface gravities of log g ~ 4.9, that pulsate with periods in the range 20-40 min. Until…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Alejandra D. Romero , A. H. Córsico , L. G. Althaus , I. Pelisoli , S. O. Kepler

Despite major progress in our understanding of massive stars, concerning discrepancies still remain between observations and theory. Most notable are the numerous stars observed beyond the theoretical main sequence, an evolutionary phase…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Earl Patrick Bellinger , Selma E. de Mink , Walter E. van Rossem , Stephen Justham

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are a class of radially pulsating stars with effective temperatures ranging from 20,000 to 35,000 K and pulsation periods between 7 and 75 minutes. This study utilizes the Binary Population and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 Zhengyang Zhang , Conor M. Byrne , Chengyuan Wu , Bo Wang

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are rare short-period ($\lesssim$80 min) pulsating variable stars exhibiting large-amplitude brightness variations (typically between 0.1 and 0.4 mag). As a recently discovered class of radial-mode…

Oscillations occur in stars of most masses and essentially all stages of evolution. Asteroseismology is the study of the frequencies and other properties of stellar oscillations, from which we can extract fundamental parameters such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hans Kjeldsen , Timothy R. Bedding , Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard

Determining the ages of red-giant stars is a key problem in stellar astrophysics. One of the difficulties in this determination is to know the evolutionary state of the individual stars -- i.e. have they started to burn Helium in their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Yvonne Elsworth , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu , Guy Davies

White dwarfs, the final evolutionary stage of the vast majority of stars, serve as critical tools for cosmochronology, studies of planetary system evolution, and laboratories for non-standard physics, including exotic cooling channels and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Murat Uzundag , Ingrid Pelisoli , Stephane Charpinet , Alejandro H. Corsico , Leandro G. Althaus , V. Van Grootel , Suzanna Randall , Thomas Kupfer , Roberto Raddi

Eclipsing binary stars have long served as benchmark systems to measure fundamental stellar properties. In the past few decades, asteroseismology - the study of stellar pulsations - has emerged as a new powerful tool to study the structure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Daniel Huber

Following the recent discovery of a new class of pulsating star, the blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs), pulsation stability analysis was carried out on evolutionary models of post-common envelope (CE) ejection stars of 0.3 and 0.46…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Conor Byrne , Simon Jeffery

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool for probing the internal structures of stars by using their natural pulsation frequencies. It relies on identifying sequences of pulsation modes that can be compared with theoretical models, which has…

Stellar models provide a vital basis for many aspects of astronomy and astrophysics. Recent advances in observational astronomy -- through asteroseismology, precision photometry, high-resolution spectroscopy, and large-scale surveys -- are…

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a newly discovered type of variable star. Their typical pulsation periods are on the order of a few tens of minutes, with relatively large amplitudes of 0.2-0.4 mag in optical bands, and their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 H. Xiong , L. Casagrande , X. Chen , J. Vos , X. Zhang , S. Justham , J. Li , T. Wu , Y. Li , Z. Han

Asteroseismology is the study of the interior physics and structure of stars using their pulsations. It is applicable to stars across the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram and a powerful technique to measure masses, radii and ages, but also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 Dominic M. Bowman , Lisa Bugnet

We present what constraints on opacities can be derived from the analysis of stellar pulsations of BA-type main-sequence stars. This analysis consists of the construction of complex seismic models which reproduce the observed frequencies as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-03 Jadwiga Daszynska-Daszkiewicz , Przemyslaw Walczak , Alosha Pamyatnykh , Wojciech Szewczuk
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