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Analytical relations for convective core mass, variable-mu structure, and main-sequence end in intermediate-mass stars, with MESA validation.
Roche lobe overflow during gas giant destruction aligns stellar spins with orbits within tens of degrees regardless of starting conditions, offering an observable to differentiate this mechanism from high-eccentricity migration.
2D hydro simulations of a red giant star find that low-frequency mixed modes below 50 microhertz carry the largest kinetic energies, unlike empirical predictions peaking near nu_max, with surface velocities matching in the less-truncated run.
Primordial black holes captured by stars lead to either quiet consumption or explosive disruption via disk formation, producing transients and high-spin remnants with potentially observable event rates.
3D hydro simulations demonstrate that donor central concentration (ρ_c/ρ_bar) controls inspiral morphology and mass-ejection history in common-envelope events for luminous red novae.
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.
A coupled MESA-GYRE framework shows interior radiative damping of gravity waves dominates tidal evolution in TOI-5882, predicting a 2-6 fold reduction in engulfment timescale versus equilibrium tide models.
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.
Dynamical tides exciting f-modes during high-eccentricity migration produce the hot Jupiter pile-up, Neptune ridge, and Neptune desert via orbital circularization and selective atmospheric mass loss.
New spectral models of solar-metallicity stellar populations using POSYDON show binary-stripped stars dominating ionizing radiation after about 16 Myr.
A complete classification of Gaia-selected hypervelocity candidates yields 10 D6 and 3 LP 40-365 stars, with forward modeling favoring intermediate-heating evolutionary scenarios and low birth rates relative to the SN Ia rate.
Numerical simulations identify a sharp transition between runaway disruption and stable eccentric mass transfer in star-black hole binaries set by pericenter distance.
Rapidly spinning, prograde stars produce progressively dimmer repeated tidal disruption flares in hydrodynamical simulations, matching the trend seen in several observed candidates.
Supermassive dark stars powered by dark matter annihilation can collapse into quasi-stars whose envelopes expand and cool to match the observed properties of many JWST Little Red Dots while bypassing the restrictive conditions of nuclear-powered supermassive star formation.
SN 2024abfl is a subluminous Type IIP event from a low-energy Fe-core collapse of a compact 9–10 M⊙ progenitor with only ~0.003 M⊙ of nickel.
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.
Multi-D progenitor perturbations leave shock revival and explosion energetics essentially unchanged in 2D CHIMERA runs; any effects sit below the level of numerical stochasticity.
Deep NIR adaptive-optics imaging rules out a helium-star companion to the eclipsing millisecond pulsar PSR J1928+1815, favoring a massive white dwarf.
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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Can Asteroseismic Structure Inversions Be Performed in Structure-Dependent Coordinates?
Asteroseismic structure inversions can be performed in acoustic and buoyancy coordinates, overcoming breakdowns for non-solar stars and removing the need for prior mass and radius knowledge in p-mode cases.
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Evolution of Stars During the Main Sequence and the Transition to the Red Giant Phase
Analytical relations for convective core mass, variable-mu structure, and main-sequence end in intermediate-mass stars, with MESA validation.
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Revealing the Origin of Desert Dwellers via Stellar Obliquities
Roche lobe overflow during gas giant destruction aligns stellar spins with orbits within tens of degrees regardless of starting conditions, offering an observable to differentiate this mechanism from high-eccentricity migration.
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Revealing mixed modes in compressible hydrodynamical simulations of red giant stars
2D hydro simulations of a red giant star find that low-frequency mixed modes below 50 microhertz carry the largest kinetic energies, unlike empirical predictions peaking near nu_max, with surface velocities matching in the less-truncated run.
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The Life and Death of Stars That Capture Primordial Black Holes
Primordial black holes captured by stars lead to either quiet consumption or explosive disruption via disk formation, producing transients and high-spin remnants with potentially observable event rates.
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Hydrodynamic Response of Mildly Evolved Common Envelope Donors in Luminous Red Novae
3D hydro simulations demonstrate that donor central concentration (ρ_c/ρ_bar) controls inspiral morphology and mass-ejection history in common-envelope events for luminous red novae.
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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
A coupled MESA-GYRE framework shows interior radiative damping of gravity waves dominates tidal evolution in TOI-5882, predicting a 2-6 fold reduction in engulfment timescale versus equilibrium tide models.
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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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Dynamical Tides during High-Eccentricity Migration produces the Hot Jupiter Pile-up, Neptune Ridge, and Neptune Desert
Dynamical tides exciting f-modes during high-eccentricity migration produce the hot Jupiter pile-up, Neptune ridge, and Neptune desert via orbital circularization and selective atmospheric mass loss.
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Stellar Population Spectra Incorporating Detailed Binary Evolution using POSYDON
New spectral models of solar-metallicity stellar populations using POSYDON show binary-stripped stars dominating ionizing radiation after about 16 Myr.
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A systematic survey for hypervelocity runaways from thermonuclear supernovae
A complete classification of Gaia-selected hypervelocity candidates yields 10 D6 and 3 LP 40-365 stars, with forward modeling favoring intermediate-heating evolutionary scenarios and low birth rates relative to the SN Ia rate.
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Bridging Roche Lobe Overflow and micro-TDEs: The Runaway Evolution of Eccentric Mass Transfer in Star-Black Hole Binaries
Numerical simulations identify a sharp transition between runaway disruption and stable eccentric mass transfer in star-black hole binaries set by pericenter distance.
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The Role of Stellar Spin in Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events
Rapidly spinning, prograde stars produce progressively dimmer repeated tidal disruption flares in hydrodynamical simulations, matching the trend seen in several observed candidates.
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JWST's Little Red Dots as collapsed Supermassive Dark Stars
Supermassive dark stars powered by dark matter annihilation can collapse into quasi-stars whose envelopes expand and cool to match the observed properties of many JWST Little Red Dots while bypassing the restrictive conditions of nuclear-powered supermassive star formation.
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Subluminous Type IIP SN 2024abfl as a Result of a Significantly Low-energy Fe-core Collapse
SN 2024abfl is a subluminous Type IIP event from a low-energy Fe-core collapse of a compact 9–10 M⊙ progenitor with only ~0.003 M⊙ of nickel.
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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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Impacts of Multidimensional Progenitor Perturbations on Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions
Multi-D progenitor perturbations leave shock revival and explosion energetics essentially unchanged in 2D CHIMERA runs; any effects sit below the level of numerical stochasticity.
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Deep Adaptive Optics Imaging Rules Out a Helium Star Companion to PSR J1928+1815
Deep NIR adaptive-optics imaging rules out a helium-star companion to the eclipsing millisecond pulsar PSR J1928+1815, favoring a massive white dwarf.
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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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Elemental Abundances from Off-center Carbon Burning in Accreting CO White Dwarfs: Implications for SN 2021yfj-like events
Numerical simulations find that off-center carbon burning in accreting CO white dwarfs produces substantial Si and S abundances that depend on initial carbon content, supporting the double WD merger scenario for SN 2021yfj-like events.
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Twin Peaks: Resolving Features in the Binary Black Hole Mass Function with COSMIC-METISSE
New MESA stellar tracks with varied winds and convective mixing produce a primary black hole mass function with twin peaks near 8 and 13 solar masses in most variations, the higher peak dominated by mass-ratio-reversal systems, with rates varying by a factor of six.
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Formation of Black Hole-White Dwarf X-ray Binaries in Globular Clusters
Simulations identify black hole-giant collisions as the main formation channel for ultracompact black hole-white dwarf binaries in globular clusters, with mock catalogs suggesting order-one LISA-detectable sources in the Milky Way.
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Composition of Radiation-Driven Winds from Type I X-ray Bursts
MESA simulations show that winds from Type I X-ray bursts igniting at column depths ≥5×10^8 g cm^{-2} eject ash enriched in intermediate-mass to iron-peak elements, with composition depending on ignition depth, accretion mix, and convective treatment.
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Mass-Orbital Period Distribution of Massive White Dwarfs Formed Through Stable Mass Transfer
Simulations show that intermediate-mass progenitors with non-degenerate cores before helium burning produce a mass-orbital period relation for massive white dwarfs that accounts for long-period systems.
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The Impact of the New $^{59}$Fe Decay Rates on $^{60}$Fe and $^{26}$Al Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars
New 59Fe beta-decay rates in non-rotating MESA models suppress 60Fe yields by 0.28 dex, yielding a Salpeter-IMF-integrated 60Fe/26Al flux ratio of 0.18 that matches the observed 0.184 ± 0.042.
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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 angular-momentum loss via outer-Lagrangian mass ejection shifts the ELM white-dwarf mass–period relation downward and reproduces most observed short-period systems.
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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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Double Neutron Star Delay Times Across Cosmic Metallicities: The Role of Helium Star Progenitors
Population synthesis of helium star-NS systems yields DNS delay time distributions that peak between 80-250 Myr across metallicities, with 15% merging within 80 Myr and over 20% after 1 Gyr.
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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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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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The Sun's chemical peculiarity: disentangling Galactic chemical evolution and planetary engulfment in solar twins
Reanalysis of 79 solar twins indicates the Sun's chemical peculiarity is largely explained by Galactic chemical evolution, with 2-6 candidates possibly showing planetary engulfment.
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Red vs. Blue: How metallicity shapes black hole dynamics and mergers in dense star clusters
High-metallicity star cluster simulations produce black hole mergers with masses and ratios consistent with recent LVK detections, unlike low-metallicity models.
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Systematically Measuring Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies. IX. A Gyr in the Life of Nearby Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
Multi-wavelength analysis of 966 low surface brightness galaxies finds short star formation episodes, mass-dependent quenching, and a marginal 8% size increase linked to star formation.
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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.