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Stellar oscillations are an important tool to probe the interior of a star. Subdwarf B stars are core helium burning objects, but their formation is poorly understood as neither single star nor binary evolution can fully explain their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Tillich , U. Heber , S. J. O'Toole , R. Østensen , S. Schuh

We report the discovery of 19 new pulsars identified from archival observations of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) within Galactic latitudes $|b|<5\deg$ and declinations ${\rm Decl.}<-5\deg$. The dataset was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Shi-Jie Gao , Yi-Xuan Shao , Xiang-Dong Li

We present follow-up time-series photometric observations that confirm and extend the results of the significant discovery made by Barlow et al.(2008) that the Hot DQ white dwarfs SDSS J220029.08-074121.5 and SDSS J234843.30-094245.3 are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Dufour , E. M. Green , G. Fontaine , P. Brassard , M. Francoeur , M. Latour

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

We report the detection of periodic variations on the T_eff ~32 000 K DA white dwarf star HE 1017-1352. We obtained time series photometry using the 4.1 m SOAR telescope on three separate nights for a total of 16.8 h. From the frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Alejandra D. Romero , L. Antunes Amaral , S. O. Kepler , L. Fraga , D. Kurtz , H. Shibahashi

We collected a sample of ten hitherto unidentified SPB stars with the aim of describing their pulsational properties and identifying pulsational modes. Photometric time series data from various surveys were collected and analyzed using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 M. Fedurco , E. Paunzen , S. Hümmerich , K. Bernhard , Š. Parimucha

The recent discovery of large-amplitude pulsations in faint blue stars (BLAPs) provides both challenges for stellar pulsation theory and opportunities to explore the late evolution of low-mass stars. This paper explores the radial-mode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-10 C. S. Jeffery

We present results of the multicolour UBVR photometry of the high-amplitude EC14026-type star, Balloon 090100001. The data span over a month and consist of more than a hundred hours of observations. Fourier analysis of these data led us to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Baran , A. Pigulski , D. Koziel , W. Ogloza , R. Silvotti , S. Zola

We report the discovery of the first variable extreme horizontal branch star in a globular cluster (omega Cen). The oscillation uncovered has a period of 114 s and an amplitude of 32 mmags. A comparison between horizontal branch models and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. K. Randall , A. Calamida , G. Bono

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) of Sun and stars are challenging for stellar flare models. The white light stellar QPPs in the periodicity region of tens of second are unexplored yet. On the basis of observations with the 6-m telescope BTA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Alexander Panferov , Grigory Beskin , Sergey Karpov , Olga Maryeva

The survey phase of the Kepler Mission includes a number of hot subdwarf B (sdB) stars to search for nonradial pulsations. We present our analysis of two sdB stars that are found to be g-mode pulsators of the V1093 Her class. These two…

Massive stars briefly pass through the yellow supergiant (YSG) phase as they evolve redward across the HR diagram and expand into red supergiants (RSGs). Higher-mass stars pass through the YSG phase again as they evolve blueward after…

Stellar evolution calculations for population II stars with initial composition $Y_0=0.25$, $Z_0=10^{-3}$ and the initial stellar mass $M_0 = 0.82M_\odot$ were carried out from the main sequence to the white dwarf stage. Twelve AGB and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-09 Yu. A. Fadeyev

We conduct a systematic search for periodic variables in the hot subdwarf catalogue using data from the Zwicky Transient Facility. We present the classification of 67 HW Vir binaries, 496 reflection effect, pulsation or rotation sinusoids,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-31 Kevin Wang , Thomas Kupfer , Brad N. Barlow

\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

We present the goals, strategy and first results of the high-cadence Galactic plane survey using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). The goal of the survey is to unveil the Galactic population of short-period variable stars, including…

Low-mass ($M_{\star}/M_{\sun} \lesssim 0.45$) white dwarfs, including the so called extremely low-mass white dwarfs (ELM, $M_{\star}/M_{\sun } \lesssim 0.18-0.20$), are being currently discovered in the field of our Galaxy through dedicated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Alejandro H. Córsico , Leandro G. Althaus

Pulsars with periods more than 0.4 seconds in the declination range -9o < decj < 42o and in the right ascension range 0h < r.a.< 24h were searched in parallel with the program of interplanetary scintillations monitoring of a large number of…

In the first spectroscopic campaign for a PG 1716 variable (or long-period pulsating subdwarf B star), we succeeded in detecting velocity variations due to g-mode pulsations at a level of 1.0-1.5 km/s.The observations were obtained during…

We present results from the final six months of a survey to search for pulsations in white dwarfs and hot subdwarf stars with the Kepler spacecraft. Spectroscopic observations are used to separate the objects into accurate classes, and we…