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Hot subdwarfs (sdO/B) are the stripped helium cores of red giants formed by binary interactions. Close hot subdwarf binaries with massive white dwarf companions have been proposed as possible progenitors of thermonuclear supernovae type Ia…

Context: Hot subdwarf B stars (sdBs) are considered to be core helium-burning stars with very thin hydrogen envelopes situated on or near the extreme horizontal branch (EHB). The formation of sdBs is still unclear as well as the chemical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Geier

Hot subdwarf B stars (sdBs) are helium-burning stars with thin hydrogen-rich envelopes. Their most widely accepted formation channels involve binary evolution and progenitors near the tip of the red giant branch, thus studying these objects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-12 Nicolás Rodríguez-Segovia , Ashley J. Ruiter

222 hot subdwarf stars were identified with LAMOST DR8 spectra, among which 131 stars show composite spectra and have been decomposed, while 91 stars present single-lined spectra. Atmospheric parameters of all sample stars were obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Zhenxin Lei , Ruijie He , Peter Nemeth , Joris Vos , Xuan Zou , Ke Hu , Huaping Xiao , Huahui Yan , Jingkun Zhao

Hot subluminous stars (sdO/B) are evolved low mass stars originating from red giants that lost their envelope almost entirely. The multitude of observed phenomena imply that several pathways may form hot subdwarfs, most involving close…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Ulrich Heber , Lennard Kufleitner , Matti Dorsch , Marilyn Latour , Harry Dawson , Fabian Mattig , Stephan Geier

We have carried out a detailed binary populations synthesis (BPS) study of the formation of subdwarf B (sdB) stars and related objects (sdO, sdOB stars) using the latest version of the BPS code developed by Han et al.(1994, 1995a, 1995b,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhanwen Han , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Pierre F. L. Maxted , Tom R. Marsh

The origin of hot subdwarf B stars (sdBs) is still unclear. About half of the known sdBs are in close binary systems for which common envelope ejection is the most likely formation channel. Little is known about this dynamic phase of binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Geier , U. Heber , Ph. Podsiadlowski , H. Edelmann , R. Napiwotzki , T. Kupfer , S. Mueller

Hot subdwarf stars with F-K main sequence binary companions have been known for decades, but the first orbital periods for such systems were published just recently. Current observations suggest that most have long periods, on the order of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Brad N. Barlow , Sandra E. Liss , Richard A. Wade , Elizabeth M. Green

Hot subdwarf stars (sdO/Bs) are the stripped cores of red giants located at the bluest extension of the horizontal branch. They constitute the dominant population of UV-bright stars in old stellar environments and are most likely formed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 S. Geier , T. Kupfer , V. Schaffenroth , U. Heber , the MUCHFUSS collaboration

There are 23 long-period binary systems discovered to date that contain a B-type hot subdwarf(sdB) whose orbital parameters have been fully solved. They evolve into O-type subdwarfs (sdO) once the helium burning transitions from the core to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Francisco Molina , Joris Vos , Péter Németh , Roy Østensen , Maja Vučković , Andrew Tkachenko , Hans van Winckel

Hot subdwarfs (hot sds) are compact, evolved stars near the Extreme Horizontal Branch (EHB) and are key to understanding stellar evolution and the ultraviolet excess in galaxies. We extend our previous analysis of Gaia XP spectra of hot…

We propose a formation channel for the previously unexplained helium-rich subdwarf O (He-rich sdO) stars in which post-subdwarf B (sdB) stars (i.e. hybrid COHe white dwarfs) reignite helium burning in a shell after gaining matter from their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stephen Justham , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Zhanwen Han

Hot subdwarfs are considered to be the compact helium cores of red giants, which lost almost their entire hydrogen envelope. What causes this enormous mass loss is still unclear. Binary interactions are invoked and a significant fraction of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 S. Geier

The formation of sdBs is still puzzling, as is the chemical composition of their atmospheres. While helium and other light elements are depleted relative to solar values, heavy elements are highly enriched. Diffusion processes in the hot,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-09 S. Geier , U. Heber , R. Napiwotzki

Multiple radial velocity observations have been obtained for a large sample of local field subdwarf B (sdB) stars over a period of two years. SdB stars appear to fall into three distinct groups based on their kinematic and spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rex A. Saffer , Elizabeth M. Green , Timothy P. Bowers

Helium rich subdwarf O stars (sdOs) are hot compact stars in a pre-white dwarf evolutionary state. Most of them have effective temperatures and surface gravities in the range Teff = 40,000-50,000 K and log g = 5.5-6.0. Their atmospheres are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Klaus Werner , Nicole Reindl , Stephan Geier , Max Pritzkuleit

We report on the analysis of high-resolution optical spectra for 77 subdwarf B (sdB) stars from the ESO Supernova Ia Progenitor Survey. Effective temperature, surface gravity, and photospheric helium abundance are determined simultaneously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Lisker , U. Heber , R. Napiwotzki , N. Christlieb , D. Reimers , D. Homeier

The project Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS (MUCHFUSS) aims at finding hot subdwarf stars with massive compact companions like massive white dwarfs (M>1.0 M$_\odot$), neutron stars, or stellar-mass black…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 T. Kupfer , S. Geier , U. Heber , R. H. Østensen , B. N. Barlow , P. F. L. Maxted , C. Heuser , V. Schaffenroth , B. T. Gänsicke

We present the first volume-limited sample of spectroscopically confirmed hot subluminous stars out to 500 pc, defined using the accurate parallax measurements from the {\em Gaia} space mission data release 3 (DR3). The sample comprises a…

Subdwarf B (sdB) stars are thought to be helium burning stars with low mass hydrogen envelopes. Several evolutionary paths have been proposed to explain the formation of these systems. One of these scenarios is the evolution of the sdB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Morales-Rueda , P. F. L. Maxted , T. R. Marsh , R. C. North