Preferential occurrence of fast radio bursts in massive star-forming galaxies

K Sharma, V Ravi, L Connor, C Law, SK Ocker… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration events detected from beyond the Milky
Way. FRB emission characteristics favour highly magnetized neutron stars, or magnetars, as …

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM)-A spectroscopic VLT monitoring survey of massive stars in the SMC

T Shenar, J Bodensteiner, H Sana… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Surveys in the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud have revealed that the majority of
massive stars will interact with companions during their lives. However, knowledge of the …

The spectroscopic binary fraction of the young stellar cluster M17

MC Ramírez-Tannus, AR Derkink, F Backs… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Significant progress has been made toward understanding the formation of
massive (M> 8 M⊙) binaries in close orbits (with periods of less than a month). Some of the …

HD 34736: an intensely magnetised double-lined spectroscopic binary with rapidly rotating chemically peculiar B-type components

E Semenko, O Kochukhov, Z Mikulášek… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We report the results of a comprehensive study of the spectroscopic binary (SB2) system HD
34736 hosting two chemically peculiar (CP) late B-type stars. Using new and archival …

Investigating 39 Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars with VLTI/GRAVITY-Uncovering a long-period binary desert

K Deshmukh, H Sana, A Mérand, E Bordier… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Wolf-Rayet stars (WRs) represent one of the final evolutionary stages of massive
stars and are thought to be the immediate progenitors of stellar-mass black holes. Their …

Non-parametric identification of single-lined binary candidates in young clusters using single-epoch spectroscopy

S Rinaldi, MC Ramírez-Tannus - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Aims. Binarity plays a crucial role in star formation and evolution. Consequently, identifying
binary stars is essential to deepening our understanding of these processes. We propose a …

OGLE-BLAP-001 and ZGP-BLAP-08: Two possible magnetic blue large-amplitude pulsators

A Pigulski, PA Kołaczek-Szymański, M Święch… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a newly discovered group of compact pulsating
stars whose origins are yet to be explained. Of the existing evolutionary scenarios that could …

The Solar Neighborhood. LII. M Dwarf Twin Binaries—Presumed Identical Twins Appear Fraternal in Variability, Rotation, Hα, and X-Rays

AA Couperus, TJ Henry, RA Osten… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an investigation into the rotation and stellar activity of four fully convective M
dwarf" twin" wide binaries. Components in each pair have (1) astrometry confirming they are …

High-resolution spectroscopy of detached eclipsing binaries during total eclipses

KG Hełminiak, JM Olszewska… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. We present results of high-resolution spectroscopic observations of detached
eclipsing binaries (DEBs) with total eclipses, for which UVES spectra were obtained during …

[PDF][PDF] Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM)

T Shenar, J Bodensteiner, H Sana… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
ABSTRACT Surveys in the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud have revealed that the
majority of massive stars will interact with companions during their lives. However …