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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 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) 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…

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

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 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

Blue Large Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are blue stars showing high amplitude (>0.2 mag) pulsations on a timescale of a few tens of mins. They form a new class of variable star recently discovered using OGLE data. It has lead to a number of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Gavin Ramsay

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…

We discuss some aspects of stellar evolution in binary systems. While single stars can swell following the chemical evolution of their interior, stars belonging to binary systems cannot overflow the size of the Roche lobe and hydrostatic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 O. G. Benvenuto , M. A. De Vito , L. Bartolomeo Koninckx , M. Echeveste , M. L. Novarino , J. E. Horvath

We reexamine evolutionary channels for the formation of binary millisecond pulsars in order to understand their observed orbital period distribution. The available paths provide a natural division into systems characterized by long orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ronald E. Taam , Andrew R. King , Hans Ritter

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

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

We propose a possible binary evolution model for the formation of ultra-long period pulsars (ULPPs). The model involves two key stages: first, a neutron star (NS) in wide binaries undergoes an effective spin-down phase through wind-fed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Ying-Han Mao , Xiang-Dong Li , Dong Lai , Zhu-Ling Deng , Hao-Ran Yang

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),…

The single degenerate (SD) model, one of the leading models for the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), predicts that there should be binary companions that survive the supernova explosion which, in principle, should be detectable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Xiang-Cun Meng , Zhan-Wen Han , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Jiao Li

The measured characteristics of binary pulsars provide valuable insights into the evolution of these systems. We study the aspects of binary evolution particularly relevant to binary Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs), and the formation of close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-17 Ali Taani , Mashhoor A. Al-Wardat , Awni Khasawneh

PSR J1928+1815, the first recycled pulsar-helium (He) star binary discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, consists of a 10.55 ms pulsar and a companion star with mass $1-1.6\,M_{\sun}$ in a 0.15-day orbit.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Zhu-Ling Deng , Xiang-Dong Li , Yong Shao , Ying-Han Mao , Long Jiang

X-ray binaries with black hole (BH) accretors and massive star donors at short orbital periods of a few days can evolve into close binary BH systems (BBH) that merge within the Hubble time through stable mass transfer evolution. From…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Jakub Klencki , Gijs Nelemans

We calculate the evolution of close binary systems (CBSs) formed by a neutron star (behaving as a radio pulsar) and a normal donor star, evolving either to helium white dwarf (HeWD) or ultra short orbital period systems. We consider X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 O. G. Benvenuto , M. A. De Vito , J. E. Horvath

We have computed an extensive grid of binary evolution tracks to represent low- and intermediate mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs and IMXBs). The grid includes 42,000 models which covers 60 initial donor masses over the range of 1-4 solar masses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Jinrong Lin , S. Rappaport , Ph. Podsiadlowski , L. Nelson , B. Paxton , P. Todorov