Spectroscopic measurements confirm a tight 6D phase-space clump of four RGB stars as part of the distant southern spur of the Sagittarius stream, likely stripped from Sagittarius's halo in the earliest interaction phases.
Specific processing and validation of all-sky RR Lyrae and Cepheid stars: The RR Lyrae sample
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VarWISE catalog identifies 457,080 high-confidence infrared variables (49.81% new) and an extended set of 1.9 million from NEOWISE photometry via spatial clustering, VARnet detection, and XGBoost classification.
New G-band relation [Fe/H] = -6.93 - 6.04P + 1.65 φ31 calibrated on 72 RR Lyrae stars with spectroscopic anchors, yielding 0.00 dex bias and 0.26 dex RMS scatter.
IY Lyr is a thick-disk RRc star with a 1.37 solar-mass companion most likely a neutron star in a 3.94-year eccentric orbit, confirmed by photometry, spectroscopy, and astrometry.
300S stellar stream exhibits three density peaks, smooth width variations, a possible 4.7 degree gap, and a kink modeled as resulting from Large Magellanic Cloud interaction across its full known footprint.
Asteroseismic modeling of RY Leporis gives a mass of ~2 solar masses and age of ~730 Myr, locating it in the post-main-sequence hydrogen shell-burning stage with consistent metallicity.
A large sample of blue horizontal-branch stars reveals that the Milky Way halo anisotropy increases from the center, stays radially dominated after removing merger debris, and shows older stars on colder, less radial orbits in the inner regions.
ASTRAFier is a Transformer-BiLSTM-CNN model that classifies stellar variability from light curves, reporting 94.26% accuracy on Kepler data and 88.22% on TESS, then applied to 2.8 million TESS curves to release a catalog.
Pilot verification using Rubin early alerts confirms 32 of 40 RR Lyrae candidates from prior catalogs as real while identifying 20% non-RR Lyrae contaminants including AGN and eclipsing binaries.
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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IY Lyr: A Thick-Disk first-overtone RR Lyrae Star with a Possible Neutron Star Companion
IY Lyr is a thick-disk RRc star with a 1.37 solar-mass companion most likely a neutron star in a 3.94-year eccentric orbit, confirmed by photometry, spectroscopy, and astrometry.
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A Pilot Study to Verify the RR Lyrae Candidates with Vera C. Rubin Observatory Early Alerts
Pilot verification using Rubin early alerts confirms 32 of 40 RR Lyrae candidates from prior catalogs as real while identifying 20% non-RR Lyrae contaminants including AGN and eclipsing binaries.
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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.