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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…

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The Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) constitute a new class of pulsating stars. They are hot stars with effective temperatures of $T_{\rm eff}\sim 30\,000$ K and surface gravities of $\log g \sim 4.9$, that pulsate with periods in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-21 Alejandro H. Córsico , Alejandra D. Romero , Leandro G. Althaus , Ingrid Pelisoli , S. O. Kepler

\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

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a recently discovered class of short-period pulsating variable stars. In this work, we present new information on these stars based on photometric and spectroscopic data obtained for known and new…

The Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) constitute a new class of pulsating stars. They are hot stars with effective temperatures of ~30 000 K and surface gravities of log g ~ 4.9, that pulsate with periods in the range 20-40 min. Until…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Alejandra D. Romero , A. H. Córsico , L. G. Althaus , I. Pelisoli , S. O. Kepler

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

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) form a small group of hot objects pulsating in a fundamental radial mode with periods of the order of 30 minutes. Proposed evolutionary scenarios explain them as evolved low-mass stars: either ~0.3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 A. Pigulski , K. Kotysz , P. A. Kolaczek-Szymanski

Long-period variability in luminous red giants has several promising applications, all of which require models able to accurately predict pulsation periods. Linear pulsation models have proven successful in reproducing the observed periods…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Michele Trabucchi , Peter R. Wood , Nami Mowlavi , Giada Pastorelli , Paola Marigo , Léo Girardi , Thomas Lebzelter

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) represent a new and rare class of hot pulsating stars with unusually large amplitudes and short periods. Up to now, only 24 confirmed BLAPs have been identified from more than one billion monitored…

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

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) 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

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are a new class of pulsating variable star. They are located close to the hot subdwarf branch in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and have spectral classes of late O or early B. Stellar evolution models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Paul Ross McWhirter , Marco C. Lam , Iain A. Steele

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…

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a newly discovered type of variable star. Their typical pulsation periods are on the order of a few tens of minutes, with relatively large amplitudes of 0.2-0.4 mag in optical bands, and their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 H. Xiong , L. Casagrande , X. Chen , J. Vos , X. Zhang , S. Justham , J. Li , T. Wu , Y. Li , Z. Han

Using linear non-adabatic pulsation analysis, we explore the radial-mode (p-mode) stability of stars across a wide range of mass (0.2 <= M <= 50 Msun), composition (0 <= X <= 0.7, Z=0.001, 0.02), effective temperature (3 000 <= T_eff <= 40…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 C. S. Jeffery , H. Saio

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

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

In order to understand the periodic and semi-periodic variations of luminous O- B- A-type stars, linear nonadiabatic stability analyses for radial and nonradial oscillations have been performed for massive evolutionary models ($8M_\odot -…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hideyuki Saio

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
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