Final targeting strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2S survey

FA Santana, RL Beaton, KR Covey… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
APOGEE is a high-resolution (R∼ 22,000), near-infrared, multi-epoch, spectroscopic survey
of the Milky Way. The second generation of the APOGEE project, APOGEE-2, includes an …

The lazy giants: APOGEE abundances reveal low star formation efficiencies in the Magellanic Clouds

DL Nidever, S Hasselquist, CR Hayes… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the first APOGEE metallicities and α-element abundances measured for 3600 red
giant stars spanning a large radial range of both the Large (LMC) and Small Magellanic …

A Census of B [e] Supergiants

M Kraus - Galaxies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Stellar evolution theory is most uncertain for massive stars. For reliable predictions of the
evolution of massive stars and their final fate, solid constraints on the physical parameters …

A population of transition disks around evolved stars: Fingerprints of planets-Catalog of disks surrounding Galactic post-AGB binaries

J Kluska, H Van Winckel, Q Coppée… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) binaries are surrounded by massive disks
of gas and dust that are similar to the protoplanetary disks that are known to surround young …

A census of symbiotic stars in the 2MASS, WISE, and Gaia surveys

S Akras, L Guzman-Ramirez… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new census of Galactic and extragalactic symbiotic stars (SySts). This
compilation contains 323 known and 87 candidate SySts. Of the confirmed SySts, 257 are …

Orbital properties of binary post-AGB stars

GM Oomen, H Van Winckel, O Pols… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Binary post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) stars are thought to be the products of a
strong but poorly understood interaction during the AGB phase. The aim of this contribution …

On the signature of a 70-solar-mass black hole in LB-1

M Abdul-Masih, G Banyard, J Bodensteiner, E Bordier… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Massive stellar-mass black holes are not expected in a Galactic metallicity environment,
owing to strong stellar winds and pair-instability supernovae. In this context, the recent …

Heavy-element yields and abundances of asymptotic giant branch models with a Small Magellanic Cloud metallicity

AI Karakas, M Lugaro, M Carlos, B Cseh… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present new theoretical stellar yields and surface abundances for asymptotic giant
branch (AGB) models with a metallicity appropriate for stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud …

Learning about the intermediate neutron-capture process from lead abundances

M Hampel, AI Karakas, RJ Stancliffe… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Lead (Pb) is predominantly produced by the slow neutron-capture process (s process) in
asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. In contrast to significantly enhanced Pb abundances …

Luminosities and Masses of Single Galactic Post-asymptotic Giant Branch Stars with Distances from Gaia EDR3: The Revelation of an s-process Diversity

D Kamath, H Van Winckel, P Ventura… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Post-asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars are exquisite probes of AGB nucleosynthesis.
However, the previous lack of accurate distances jeopardized comparison with theoretical …