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Blue Large Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are hot, subluminous stars undergoing rapid variability with periods of under 60 mins. They have been linked with the early stages of pre-white dwarfs and hot subdwarfs. They are a rare class of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Paul Ross McWhirter , Marco C. Lam

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…

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…

We present the properties of the recently discovered class of variable stars, Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs). These extremely rare, short-period pulsating objects were detected thanks to regular, high-cadence observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Pawel Pietrukowicz

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) form a mysterious class of variable stars with typical periods of tens of minutes and amplitudes above 0.1 mag. In this work, we present results of a variability search focused on timescales shorter…

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

Blue Large Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are a relatively new class of blue variable stars showing periodic variations in their light curves with periods shorter than a few tens of mins and amplitudes of more than ten percent. We report nine…

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

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

In this work, we search the OGLE-IV outer Galactic bulge fields for short-period variable objects. The investigation focuses on unexplored timescales roughly below one hour in an area containing about 700 million stellar sources down to…

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a newly discovered group of compact pulsating stars whose origin needs to be explained. Of the existing evolutionary scenarios that could lead to the formation of BLAPs, there are two in which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Andrzej Pigulski , Piotr A. Kołaczek-Szymański , Marta Święch , Piotr Łojko , Kacper J. Kowalski

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

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) represent a new and rare class of hot pulsating stars with unusually large amplitudes and short periods. Up to now, only 24 confirmed BLAPs have been identified from more than one billion monitored…

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are a new class of pulsating variable star. They are located close to the hot subdwarf branch in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and have spectral classes of late O or early B. Stellar evolution models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Paul Ross McWhirter , Marco C. Lam , Iain A. Steele

We have obtained spectroscopic observations for four short-period variable objects detected in ZTF, Gaia, and Pan-STARRS (ZGP) data and classified as Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) in McWhirter and Lam (2022): ZGP-BLAP-03,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 P. Pietrukowicz , M. Latour , F. Di Mille , M. Dorsch , U. Heber , J. Borowicz

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

\textbf{B}lue \textbf{L}arge \textbf{A}mplitude \textbf{P}ulsators (BLAPs) are a type of variable star that has been identified relatively recently. They are characterized by their large amplitude, high gravity, and long periods (2-75…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Tao Wu , Yan Li

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs), a recently classified type of variable stars, are evolved objects likely formed through interactions between stars in a binary system. However, only two BLAPs with stellar companions have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Kyeongsoo Hong , Jae Woo Lee , Dong-Jin Kim , Sang-Mok Cha , Yongseok Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Byeong-Gon Park

Regular intrinsic brightness variations observed in many stars are caused by pulsations. These pulsations provide information on the global and structural parameters of the star. The pulsation periods range from seconds to years, depending…

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) form a small group of hot objects pulsating in a fundamental radial mode with periods of the order of 30 minutes. Proposed evolutionary scenarios explain them as evolved low-mass stars: either ~0.3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 A. Pigulski , K. Kotysz , P. A. Kolaczek-Szymanski
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