Hot subluminous stars

U Heber - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Hot subluminous stars of spectral type B and O are core helium-burning stars at the blue end
of the horizontal branch or have evolved even beyond that stage. Most hot subdwarf stars …

The population of hot subdwarf stars studied with Gaia-IV. Catalogues of hot subluminous stars based on Gaia EDR3

R Culpan, S Geier, N Reindl, I Pelisoli… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
In light of substantial new discoveries of hot subdwarfs by ongoing spectroscopic surveys
and the availability of the Gaia mission Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), we compiled new …

Discovery and analysis of three magnetic hot subdwarf stars: evidence for merger-induced magnetic fields

I Pelisoli, M Dorsch, U Heber, B Gänsicke… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Magnetic fields can play an important role in stellar evolution. Among white dwarfs, the most
common stellar remnant, the fraction of magnetic systems is more than 20 per cent. The …

The catalogue of radial velocity variable hot subluminous stars from the MUCHFUSS project

S Geier, T Kupfer, U Heber, V Schaffenroth… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
The project Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS
(MUCHFUSS) aims to find sdBs with compact companions such as massive white dwarfs …

Discovery of a variable lead-rich hot subdwarf: UVO 0825+ 15

CS Jeffery, AS Baran, NT Behara… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
UVO 0825+ 15 is a hot bright helium-rich subdwarf which lies in K2 Field 5 and in a sample
of intermediate helium-rich subdwarfs observed with Subaru/HDS. The K2 light curve shows …

A search for heavy-metal stars: abundance analyses of hot subdwarfs with Subaru

N Naslim, CS Jeffery, VM Woolf - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of extremely zirconium-and lead-rich surfaces amongst a small subgroup of
hot subdwarfs has provoked questions pertaining to chemical peculiarity in hot star …

Discovery of a highly magnetic He-sdO star from a double-degenerate binary merger

M Dorsch, N Reindl, I Pelisoli, U Heber, S Geier… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Helium-rich hot subdwarf stars of spectral type O (He-sdO) are considered prime candidates
for stellar merger remnants. Such events should lead to the generation of strong magnetic …

The first heavy-metal hot subdwarf composite binary SB 744

P Németh, J Vos, F Molina, A Bastian - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. The long-period sdOB+ G1V type spectroscopic binary SB 744 reveals strong lines of
fluorine and lead in the optical spectrum of the sdOB star and subsolar metallicity in the G1V …

A search for hot subdwarf binaries in data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

J Krzesinski, HT Şener, S Zola… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present the results of a search for binary hot subdwarf stars in photometric data from the
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The sample of objects used in this work was a …

A second candidate magnetic helium core white dwarf and 3 other variable white dwarfs in the globular cluster NGC 6397

MP Marcano, LER Sandoval… - The Astrophysical …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Using archival Hubble Space Telescope observations, we report the discovery of
four variable low-mass white dwarfs (WDs; 0.18 M⊙≤ M≤ 0.5 M⊙) in the globular cluster …