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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

Tidally tilted pulsators (TTPs) are an intriguing new class of oscillating stars in binary systems; in such stars, the pulsation axis coincides with the line of apsides, or semi-major axis, of the binary. All three TTPs discovered so far…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Rahul Jayaraman , Gerald Handler , Saul Rappaport , Jim Fuller , Donald W. Kurtz , Stéphane Charpinet , George Ricker

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

We present a catalog of binary companions to $\delta$ Scuti stars, detected through phase modulations of their pulsations in TESS data. Pulsation timing has provided orbits for hundreds of pulsating stars in binaries from space-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Shishir Dholakia , Simon J. Murphy , Chelsea X. Huang , Alexander Venner , Duncan Wright

The {\sl TESS} space mission has recently demonstrated its great potential to discover new pulsating white dwarf and pre-white dwarf stars, and to detect periodicities with high precision in already known white-dwarf pulsators. We report…

Pulsar binaries, in particular redback systems, provide good sources to study the pulsar wind flow and its interaction with the companion stars. {\it Fermi}-LAT have proposed probable pulsar binary candidates in its catalogs. To identify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-14 Partha Sarathi Pal , P. H. T. Tam , Weitang Liang , Chengye Cao , K. L. Li , C. Y. Hui , A. K. H. Kong

Hot subdwarf B stars (sdBs) are core helium-burning stars located on the extreme horizontal branch. About half of the known sdB stars are found in close binaries. Their short orbital periods of 1.2 h to a few days suggest that they are post…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 V. Schaffenroth , S. Geier , U. Heber , T. Kupfer , E. Ziegerer , C. Heuser , L. Classen , O. Cordes

We report seismic analyses of five pulsating subdwarf B (sdBV) stars observed during Kepler's K2 mission, each with a white dwarf companion. We find three of the five to be g-mode-dominated hybrid pulsators. For the other two, we only…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-06 M. D. Reed , A. S. Baran , J. H. Telting , R. H. Ostensen , C. S. Jeffery , Y. Gaibor

This work is dedicated to a search for new pulsating hot subdwarfs in TESS photometric data which could have been missed in previous searches. By matching catalogues of hot subdwarfs with TESS targets and using luminosities from Gaia…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 J. Krzesinski , L. A. Balona

Uninterrupted observations from space-borne telescopes provide the photometric precision that is required to detect shallow transits of small planets missed by ground-based surveys. We used data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 G. Maciejewski

The formation of hot subdwarf stars (sdBs), which are core helium-burning stars located on the extended horizontal branch, is still not understood. Many of the known hot subdwarf stars reside in close binary systems with short orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 V. Schaffenroth , S. Geier , U. Heber , H. Drechsel , R. H. Østensen , P. F. L. Maxted , T. Kupfer , B. N. Barlow , MUCHFUSS collaboration

Hot subdwarf B stars (sdBs) in close binary systems are assumed to be formed via common envelope ejection. According to theoretical models, the amount of energy and angular momentum deposited in the common envelope scales with the mass of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. Geier , R. Napiwotzki , U. Heber , G. Nelemans

Long-period binary systems containing a B-type hot subdwarf (sdB) and a main-sequence companion are thought to originate from binary interactions involving stable mass transfer from the red giant, the progenitor of the sdB, to the MS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Francisco Molina , Joris Vos , Alexey Bobrick , Maja Vučković

We report the discovery of the first hot subdwarf B (sdB) star with a massive compact companion in a wide ($P=892.5\pm60.2\,{\rm d}$) binary system. It was discovered based on an astrometric binary solution provided by the Gaia mission Data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 S. Geier , M. Dorsch , H. Dawson , I. Pelisoli , J. Munday , T. R. Marsh , V. Schaffenroth , U. Heber

The slowly pulsating B (SPB) stars are a class of variable star with masses between about 3 and 8 M$_{\odot}$. Their gravity-mode pulsation frequencies are sensitive to the near-core structure, which makes them useful probes of rotation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 L. J. A. Scott , D. M. Bowman

Stellar flares are critical phenomena on stellar surfaces, which are closely tied to stellar magnetism. While extensively studied in main-sequence (MS) stars, their occurrence in evolved compact stars, specifically hot subdwarfs and white…

We have measured the orbital parameters of seven close binaries, including six new objects, in a radial velocity survey of 38 objects comprising a hot subdwarf star with orbital periods ranging from ~0.17 to 3 d. One new system, GALEX…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Kawka , S. Vennes , S. O'Toole , P. Nemeth , D. Burton , E. Kotze , D. A. H. Buckley

In 2007, a companion with planetary mass was found around the pulsating subdwarf B star V391 Pegasi with the timing method, indicating that a previously undiscovered population of substellar companions to apparently single subdwarf B stars…

Hot subdwarf-B (sdB) stars in long-period binaries are found to be on eccentric orbits, even though current binary-evolution theory predicts these objects to be circularised before the onset of Roche-lobe overflow (RLOF). To increase our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Joris Vos , Péter Németh , Maja Vučković , Roy Østensen , Steven Parsons

The {\it TESS} periodograms of the SALT survey catalogue of hydrogen-deficient stars were searched for evidence of short-period variability. Periodic light curve variations were identified in 16 stars out of 153 catalogue objects, of which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 E. J. Snowdon , C. S. Jeffery , S. Schlagenhauf , M. Dorsch