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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

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

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) 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 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

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) 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) 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) 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 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) are hot low-mass stars which show large-amplitude light variations likely due to radial oscillations driven by iron-group opacities. Period changes provide evidence of both secular contraction and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Xianfei Zhang , C. Simon Jeffery , Jie Su , Shaolan Bi

We report the discovery of 31 blue, short period, pulsators made using data taken as part of the Rapid Temporal Survey (RATS). We find they have periods between 51-83 mins and full-amplitudes between 0.05-0.65 mag. Using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Gavin Ramsay , Ralf Napiwotzki , Thomas Barclay , Pasi Hakala , Stephen Potter , Mark Cropper

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

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 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

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

During the course of an ongoing CCD monitoring program to investigate low-level light variations in subdwarf B (sdB) stars, we have serendipitously discovered a new class of low amplitude, multimode sdB pulsators with periods of the order…

Hot subdwarf variables (sdBVs) that display large-amplitude ($>$1%), short-period variability, as a result of radial-mode pulsations, have recently become objects of interest as they show unique properties among the sdBV classes. Since the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Corey W. Bradshaw , Thomas Kupfer , Alekzander R. Kosakowski , Brad N. Barlow , Matti Dorsch

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

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…

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