Blue straggler stars in old open clusters exhibit a Kraft break in rotation, with rapid rotators above the break and slow rotators below, indicating their envelopes behave like those of single stars.
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Radiative damping of internal gravity waves dominates tidal evolution in TOI-5882, shortening the brown dwarf's engulfment timescale by a factor of 2-6 relative to classical models.
Type Ib supernovae are systematically bluer than Type Ic supernovae in optical colors, likely due to helium-rich versus helium-poor progenitors.
Two long period radio transients are detached white dwarf-M dwarf binaries with matching periods, massive cool crystallized white dwarfs, low inclinations, and an estimated population of 100-2000 such systems within 2 kpc.
Dynamic Time Warping with a shared warping path across parameters aligns binary stellar tracks for accurate interpolation while preserving physical relationships such as the Stefan-Boltzmann law.
GR hydro simulation finds that strongly relativistic TDEs evolve like weakly relativistic ones, with persistent eccentric debris, early but short-lived shocks, and slow circularization driven by stream self-interactions.
A score-based diffusion generative model on deep infrared galaxy photometry yields a star formation rate density peaking at z=1.3 and shows distinct non-parametric star formation histories plus AGN activity peaking during the quenching transition of massive galaxies.
Physics-based annual TSI reconstruction over three millennia yields a maximum difference of 1.04 W/m² in 50-year running means.
Blue straggler stars in old open clusters predominantly appear near the terminal-age main sequence because mass transfer from asymptotic giant branch donors enriches their cores with helium.
Simulations show double neutron star mergers peak 80-250 million years after star formation across metallicities, with 15% quick mergers and over 20% delayed over a billion years.
A new main-sequence evolution framework implemented in COMPAS yields more massive helium cores, more compact stripped-star radii, and systematically higher black-hole masses than standard prescriptions.
Failed common envelope mergers yield 6-14 solar mass stripped stars consistent with long-lived core He-burning objects that appear single or in wide binaries from hierarchical triples.
TOI-5882, a lithium-enriched subgiant with a brown dwarf companion, shows enrichment consistent with engulfment of a super-Earth to Neptune-mass planet.
Enhanced AML via L2-point mass loss in the RLOF channel alters ELM WD internal structure and mass-radius relation, reproducing observed shorter orbital periods.
Discovery and spectro-photodynamical characterization of TIC 295741342, a coplanar triply-eclipsing triple with a giant tertiary showing two degenerate evolutionary states and predicted Roche lobe overflow.
Binary population synthesis predicts several thousand intermediate-mass helium stars in the Milky Way, mostly in binaries, with metallicity and common-envelope ejection efficiency as the dominant shaping factors.
No kilonova detected from sub-solar GW candidate S251112cm, but coincident IIb supernova SN 2025adtq yields suggestive evidence for the superkilonova channel, though inconclusive after accounting for chance coincidence.
Tertiary in EM Boo is A-F type with Teff=7000K; system distance ~300 pc indicates Gaia DR3 underestimates true distance due to multiplicity.
MESA grid models find HD 20794 is a 0.80 solar-mass star aged ~9 Gyr whose observed abundances match core-collapse supernova enrichment and are preserved over Gyr timescales.
The first NIR high-resolution spectroscopy of solar analog HD115617 shows a 250 K temperature discrepancy with optical data but confirms solar composition, main-sequence status, and no chemical signature of planetary formation.
A transit search on TESS Cycle 1 full-frame images produced 10,091 new planet candidates down to T=16 mag, more than doubling the known TESS total, with one hot Jupiter confirmed by radial velocity.
Stellar evolution and atmosphere models predict black hole progenitors are predominantly hot and blue with a direct-collapse rate of ~0.4 per century in a 1 Msun/yr star-forming galaxy.
2D core-collapse supernova simulations of 15 solar-mass progenitors with varied multi-D initial structures show similar explosion dynamics, with no detectable impact from progenitor turbulence due to saturation by post-shock instabilities.
Deep Keck/NIRC2 adaptive optics imaging rules out a helium star companion to PSR J1928+1815, supporting a massive white dwarf with possible wind-driven eclipses.
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Blue Straggler Stars in Old Open Clusters and the Kraft Break
Blue straggler stars in old open clusters exhibit a Kraft break in rotation, with rapid rotators above the break and slow rotators below, indicating their envelopes behave like those of single stars.
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The Tale of a Hungry Subgiant and Its Brown Dwarf: Interior Radiative Damping Dominates the Tidal Evolution of TOI-5882
Radiative damping of internal gravity waves dominates tidal evolution in TOI-5882, shortening the brown dwarf's engulfment timescale by a factor of 2-6 relative to classical models.
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Type Ib Supernovae are bluer than Type Ic Supernovae
Type Ib supernovae are systematically bluer than Type Ic supernovae in optical colors, likely due to helium-rich versus helium-poor progenitors.
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White dwarf + M dwarf Detached Binaries in Long Period Radio Transients: Observed Binary Parameters, Evolution, and Population Constraints
Two long period radio transients are detached white dwarf-M dwarf binaries with matching periods, massive cool crystallized white dwarfs, low inclinations, and an estimated population of 100-2000 such systems within 2 kpc.
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Irregularly Sampled Time Series Interpolation for Binary Evolution Simulations Using Dynamic Time Warping
Dynamic Time Warping with a shared warping path across parameters aligns binary stellar tracks for accurate interpolation while preserving physical relationships such as the Stefan-Boltzmann law.
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Unexpectedly Weak General Relativistic Effects in Strongly Relativistic Tidal Disruption Events
GR hydro simulation finds that strongly relativistic TDEs evolve like weakly relativistic ones, with persistent eccentric debris, early but short-lived shocks, and slow circularization driven by stream self-interactions.
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pop-cosmos: Star formation over 12 Gyr from generative modelling of a deep infrared-selected galaxy catalogue
A score-based diffusion generative model on deep infrared galaxy photometry yields a star formation rate density peaking at z=1.3 and shows distinct non-parametric star formation histories plus AGN activity peaking during the quenching transition of massive galaxies.
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Reconstruction of annual solar irradiance over the last three millennia
Physics-based annual TSI reconstruction over three millennia yields a maximum difference of 1.04 W/m² in 50-year running means.
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The Distribution of Blue Straggler Stars in the Color-Magnitude Diagrams of Old Open Clusters
Blue straggler stars in old open clusters predominantly appear near the terminal-age main sequence because mass transfer from asymptotic giant branch donors enriches their cores with helium.
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Double Neutron Star Delay Times Across Cosmic Metallicities: The Role of Helium Star Progenitors
Simulations show double neutron star mergers peak 80-250 million years after star formation across metallicities, with 15% quick mergers and over 20% delayed over a billion years.
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Evolution of Massive Main-sequence Stars in Rapid Population Synthesis. I. Framework and Implementation
A new main-sequence evolution framework implemented in COMPAS yields more massive helium cores, more compact stripped-star radii, and systematically higher black-hole masses than standard prescriptions.
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Mergers via failed common envelope as a route towards intermediate-mass stripped stars
Failed common envelope mergers yield 6-14 solar mass stripped stars consistent with long-lived core He-burning objects that appear single or in wide binaries from hierarchical triples.
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Lithium Enrichment in a Subgiant Star with a Brown Dwarf Companion: A Planetary Engulfment Candidate
TOI-5882, a lithium-enriched subgiant with a brown dwarf companion, shows enrichment consistent with engulfment of a super-Earth to Neptune-mass planet.
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Formation of extremely low-mass white dwarf binaries undergoing enhanced angular momentum loss
Enhanced AML via L2-point mass loss in the RLOF channel alters ELM WD internal structure and mass-radius relation, reproducing observed shorter orbital periods.
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TIC 295741342: A Triply-Eclipsing Triple Star System with a Giant Tertiary
Discovery and spectro-photodynamical characterization of TIC 295741342, a coplanar triply-eclipsing triple with a giant tertiary showing two degenerate evolutionary states and predicted Roche lobe overflow.
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A Rare Population of Intermediate-mass Helium Stars Between Hot Subdwarfs and Wolf-Rayet Stars
Binary population synthesis predicts several thousand intermediate-mass helium stars in the Milky Way, mostly in binaries, with metallicity and common-envelope ejection efficiency as the dominant shaping factors.
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Electromagnetic Follow-up of the Sub-Solar Mass Gravitational Wave Candidate S251112cm: Kilonova Constraints and a Coincident IIb Supernova
No kilonova detected from sub-solar GW candidate S251112cm, but coincident IIb supernova SN 2025adtq yields suggestive evidence for the superkilonova channel, though inconclusive after accounting for chance coincidence.
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Spectroscopic Disentangling Revealed the Tertiary Component in the Multiple System EM Boo
Tertiary in EM Boo is A-F type with Teff=7000K; system distance ~300 pc indicates Gaia DR3 underestimates true distance due to multiplicity.
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A Theoretical Study of the Structure and Elemental Abundances of HD 20794
MESA grid models find HD 20794 is a 0.80 solar-mass star aged ~9 Gyr whose observed abundances match core-collapse supernova enrichment and are preserved over Gyr timescales.
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The First Infrared Portrait of A Solar-Like Host Star with Debris Disk: Pioneering High-Resolution H- and K-Band Spectroscopy of HD115617 with Comparative Optical Spectrum Analysis
The first NIR high-resolution spectroscopy of solar analog HD115617 shows a 250 K temperature discrepancy with optical data but confirms solar composition, main-sequence status, and no chemical signature of planetary formation.
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The T16 Planet Hunt: 10,000 New Planet Candidates from TESS Cycle 1 and the Confirmation of a Hot Jupiter Around TIC 183374187
A transit search on TESS Cycle 1 full-frame images produced 10,091 new planet candidates down to T=16 mag, more than doubling the known TESS total, with one hot Jupiter confirmed by radial velocity.
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Hot blue progenitors of stellar-mass black holes
Stellar evolution and atmosphere models predict black hole progenitors are predominantly hot and blue with a direct-collapse rate of ~0.4 per century in a 1 Msun/yr star-forming galaxy.
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Impacts of Multidimensional Progenitor Perturbations on Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions
2D core-collapse supernova simulations of 15 solar-mass progenitors with varied multi-D initial structures show similar explosion dynamics, with no detectable impact from progenitor turbulence due to saturation by post-shock instabilities.
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Deep Adaptive Optics Imaging Rules Out a Helium Star Companion to PSR J1928+1815
Deep Keck/NIRC2 adaptive optics imaging rules out a helium star companion to PSR J1928+1815, supporting a massive white dwarf with possible wind-driven eclipses.
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Constraints on the $^{12}$C$(\alpha, \gamma)^{16}$O and $^{16}$O+$^{16}$O Reaction Rates from Binary Black Holes Detected via Gravitational Wave Signals
Stellar models show that the 12C(alpha,gamma)16O rate uncertainty moves the black hole mass gap, constraining its S300 to 137.6-263.4 keV barn when matched to the observed gap from gravitational waves.
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Calibrating Eruptive Mass Loss in Red Supergiants with Local Group Data
Eruptive mass loss in red supergiants increases linearly with metallicity, calibrated via by-eye fits to Local Group luminosity functions, preventing initial masses above about 20 solar masses from reaching the red supergiant phase.
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Revisiting the Perseus Cluster II: Metallicity-Dependence of Massive Stars and Chemical Enrichment History
New CCSN yield tables at varying metallicities are inserted into galactic chemical evolution models and tuned to reproduce the Si-group and Fe-group abundances measured by Hitomi in the Perseus Cluster.
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Radiatively Cooled Binary Mass Transfer: Flow Structure, Luminosities, and L2 Outflows Across Mass Transfer Rates
Simulations across mass transfer rates from 10^-5 to 10^-1 solar masses per year find that radiatively cooled binaries develop equatorially concentrated L2 outflows and increasing cooling luminosity at high rates.
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Toward a Comprehensive Grid of Cepheid Models with MESA. IV. Modest Effects of Rotation on Blue Loops
Rotation produces only modest changes to blue loop luminosity and extent in MESA Cepheid models and cannot fix the mass discrepancy without substantial main-sequence overshooting.
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Analysis of DQZ White Dwarf Evolution through Procyon
MESA grid models of Procyon A and B give a system age of 2.23 Gyr, white dwarf cooling age of 1.20 Gyr, and map the progenitor to the 1.9-2.6 solar mass range with higher core overshoot than standard.
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An Outer Giant Planet or Brown Dwarf in the 51 Pegasi System?
Tentative evidence for a super-Jupiter at 15-100 AU or brown dwarf at 20-170 AU in 51 Pegasi from RV curvature, but the signal is likely driven by Lick/Hamilton instrument drift.
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On the origin of variability in $\alpha$ Cygni variable $\epsilon$ Ori (HD 37128) using TESS observations and modelling
Linear stability analysis and non-linear hydrodynamical simulations link the stochastic low-frequency variability of ε Ori to strange-mode instabilities that excite finite-amplitude pulsations.
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Probing Red Giant Interiors with G-Dominated Mixed Modes I: The Cases of KIC 9145955, KIC 9970396, KIC 9882316 and KIC 11968334
Asteroseismic fits to g-dominated mixed modes in four red giants suggest convective overshooting rises with mass and yield a core rotation rate of 0.7409 μHz for KIC 11968334.
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A Path to Constraints on Common Envelope Ejection in Massive Binaries: Full Evolutionary Reconstruction of Three Black Hole X-ray Binaries
Reconstruction of GRO J1655-40, SAX J1819.3-2525 and 4U 1543-47 requires CE efficiencies α_0.5U ≳6.7, α_U ≳4.2, α_H ≳1.7 with no solutions below unity, implying need for additional energy or formalism changes plus natal kicks ≳50 km/s for 4U 1543-47.
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Binary Star Evolution Modules in REBOUNDx
REBOUNDx now includes interoperable modules implementing standard binary evolution physics including RLOF, CE drag, winds, magnetic braking, and post-Newtonian corrections.
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An Updated SynthPop Model for Microlensing Simulations I: Model Description & Evaluation
An updated SynthPop model matches most bulge stellar and kinematic data but overpredicts optical microlensing event rates by about 20 percent near the galactic plane.
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Testing models for fully and partially stripped low-mass stars with Gaia: Implications for hot subdwarfs, binary RR Lyrae, and black hole impostors
Simulations overpredict hot subdwarf and RR Lyrae binaries with Gaia astrometric solutions but match red clump stars with high mass functions as potential black hole impostors, implying fewer au-scale RR Lyrae binaries than expected.
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The impact of new ($\alpha$, n) reaction rates on the weak s-process in metal-poor massive stars
New 17O+α and 22Ne+α rates increase weak s-process yields by tens of times in Z=10^{-3} stars of 15-30 solar masses.
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Influence of magnetic activity on the determination of stellar parameters through asteroseismology
Magnetic activity induces frequency shifts that bias asteroseismic age estimates by up to 10% and helium abundance by up to 3% in solar-like stars.
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Simulations of Interacting Binary Systems -- Pathways to Radio Bright GRB Progenitors
Binary evolution simulations identify short (20-500 days) and long (2000-4000 days) orbital period ranges where massive star-black hole systems retain enough angular momentum for GRB jet production with negligible mass loss.
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Interpreting Galaxy Physical Properties Using Stellar Population Synthesis
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