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Using high-cadence observations from the Zwicky Transient Facility at low Galactic latitudes, we have discovered a new class of pulsating, hot, compact stars. We have found four candidates, exhibiting blue colors ($g-r\leq-0.1$ mag),…

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

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

We report the discovery of a new Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsator, SMSS J184506-300804 (SMSS-BLAP-1) in Data Release 2 of the SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey. We conduct high-cadence photometric observations in the $u$ band to confirm a periodic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Seo-Won Chang , Christian Wolf , Christopher A. Onken , Michael S. Bessell

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

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

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 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

We present the discovery of a new, peculiar form of double-periodic pulsation in RR Lyrae stars. In four, long-period ($P>0.6$ d) stars observed by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, and classified as fundamental mode pulsators…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 R. Smolec , Z. Prudil , M. Skarka , K. Bakowska

In this paper, we report on the detection of RRab stars with quasi-identical-shape light curves but period differences as large as $0.05-0.21$ d using the Galactic bulge data of the OGLE-IV survey. We have examined stars with shorter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Johanna Jurcsik , Aron Juhasz

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…

Following the discovery of blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs), single star evolu- tion models of post red giant branch stars that have undergone a common envelope (CE) ejection in the form of a high mass loss rate have been constructed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-17 Conor M. Byrne , C. Simon Jeffery

Asteroseismology is a very useful tool for exploring the stellar interiors and evolutionary status and for determining stellar fundamental parameters, such as stellar mass, radius, surface gravity, and the stellar mean density. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-29 Tao Wu , Yan Li

We report the discovery of a new group of double-periodic stars in the OGLE Galactic bulge photometry. In 38 stars identified as fundamental mode RR~Lyrae and 4 classified as the first-overtone RR~Lyrae, we detected additional shorter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Zdenek Prudil , Radoslaw Smolec , Marek Skarka , Henryka Netzel

Over the past few years, wide-field time-domain surveys like ZTF and OGLE have led to discoveries of various types of interesting short-period stellar variables, such as ultracompact eclipsing binary white dwarfs, rapidly rotating…

We discuss the properties of pulsations in the OGLE Small Amplitude Red Giants (OSARGs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We consider stars below the red-giant tip in this paper. They are multi-periodic and form three sequences in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Masaki Takayama , Hideyuki Saio , Yoshifusa Ita

We traced the origin of very long-periodic pulsations (VLPs) in type-I burst chains on 2024 February 14. Seven successive and repetitive pulsation structures appeared in radio dynamic spectra in the metric waveband, which were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Dong Li , Lei Lu , Jingye Yan , Xinhua Zhao , Bing Wang , Chengming Tan , Jianping Li , Zongjun Ning

We present the results of a systematic search for multiperiodic pulsators among the Galactic Bulge RR Lyrae stars of the OGLE-1 sample. We identify one "canonical" double-mode variable (RRd star) pulsating in two radial modes. In 38 stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Moskalik , E. Poretti

Positions of High-Mass X-ray Binaries are often known precisely enough to unambiguously identify the optical component, and a number of those stars are monitored by the OGLE and MACHO collaborations. The light curves of two such candidates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Fabrycky

Stellar oscillations appear all across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Recent theoretical studies support their existence also in the atmospheres of M dwarfs. These studies predict for them short periodicities ranging from 20~min to 3~h.…