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We report the discovery of four new pulsating subdwarf B (sdBV) stars from Campaign 7 of the Kepler spacecraft's K2 mission. EPICs 215776487, 217280630, 218366972, and 218717602 are all gravity (g)-mode pulsators and we also detect two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 M. D. Reed , A. J. Slayton , A. S. Baran , J. H. Telting , R. H. Ostensen , C. S. Jeffery , M. Uzundag , S. Sanjayan

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…

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

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 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

Context. The nature of the recently identified "sdA" spectroscopic class of star is not well understood. The thousands of known sdAs have H-dominated spectra, spectroscopic surface gravities intermediate to main sequence stars and isolated…

We present key sample results of a systematic survey of the pulsation properties of models of hot B subdwarfs. We use equilibrium structures taken from detailed evolutionary sequences of solar metallicity (Z = 0.02) supplemented by grids of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Stephane Charpinet , Gilles Fontaine , Pierre Brassard , Ben Dorman

Low mass white dwarfs are the remnants of disrupted red giant stars in binary millisecond pulsars and other exotic binary star systems. Some low mass white dwarfs cool rapidly, while others stay bright for millions of years due to stable…

We report the discovery of the second and third pulsating extremely low mass white dwarfs (WDs), SDSS J111215.82+111745.0 (hereafter J1112) and SDSS J151826.68+065813.2 (hereafter J1518). Both have masses < 0.25 Msun and effective…

Context. The discovery of pulsations in low-mass stars opens an opportunity for probing their interiors and to determine their evolution, by employing the tools of asteroseismology. Aims. We aim to analyze high-speed photometry of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 M. A. Corti , A. Kanaan , A. H. Córsico , S. O. Kepler , L. G. Althaus , D. Koester , J. P. Sánchez Arias

In this paper we describe a new class of pulsating stars, the prototype of which is the bright, early, F-type dwarf, Gamma Doradus. These stars typically have between 1 and 5 periods ranging from 0.4 to 3 days with photometric amplitudes up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. B. Kaye , G. Handler , K. Krisciunas , E. Poretti , F. M. Zerbi

We present five new pulsating subdwarf B (sdB) stars discovered by the Kepler spacecraft during the asteroseismology survey phase. We perform time-series analysis on the nearly continuous month-long Kepler datasets of these 5 objects; these…

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a recently discovered group of hot stars pulsating in radial modes. Their origin needs to be explained, and several scenarios for their formation have already been proposed. We investigate whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Piotr A. Kołaczek-Szymański , Andrzej Pigulski , Piotr Łojko

In 2005, Palla & Baraffe proposed that brown dwarfs (BDs) and very low mass stars (VLMSs; <0.1 solar masses) may be unstable to radial oscillations during the pre-main-sequence deuterium burning phase. With associated periods of 1-4 hours,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ann Marie Cody , Lynne A. Hillenbrand

This paper reports the discovery of new slowly pulsating B-type stars. Based on the photometric, spectral, and astrometric data of TESS, LAMOST, and Gaia surveys, we have found 286 new slowly pulsating B-type stars (SPB stars) and 21…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Xiang-dong Shi , Sheng-bang Qian , Li-ying Zhu , Lin-jia Li

We present our discovery of a new hybrid pulsating subdwarf B star, J08069+1527. The effective temperature and surface gravity of 28,500$\pm$400\,K and 5.37$\pm$0.04\,dex, respectively, place this object inside the instability strip and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. S. Baran , J. T. Gilker , M. D. Reed , R. H. Ostensen , J. H. Telting , K. Smolders , L. Hicks , R. Oreiro

Tidally tilted pulsators (TTPs) are an intriguing new class of oscillating stars in binary systems; in such stars, the pulsation axis coincides with the line of apsides, or semi-major axis, of the binary. All three TTPs discovered so far…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Rahul Jayaraman , Gerald Handler , Saul Rappaport , Jim Fuller , Donald W. Kurtz , Stéphane Charpinet , George Ricker

Hot subdwarf B stars are core-helium burning objects that have undergone envelope stripping, likely by a binary companion. Using high-speed photometry from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, we have discovered the hot subdwarf BPM…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Bryce A. Smith , Brad N. Barlow , Benjamin Rosenthal , J. J. Hermes , Veronika Schaffenroth

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

Hot subluminous stars of spectral type B and O are core helium-burning stars at the blue end of the horizontal branch or have evolved even beyond that stage. Strikingly, the distribution in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of He-rich vs.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Ulrich Heber