The revised TESS input catalog and candidate target list

KG Stassun, RJ Oelkers, M Paegert… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the catalogs assembled and the algorithms used to populate the revised TESS
Input Catalog (TIC), based on the incorporation of the Gaia second data release. We also …

Weighing stars from birth to death: mass determination methods across the HRD

A Serenelli, A Weiss, C Aerts, GC Angelou… - The Astronomy and …, 2021 - Springer
The mass of a star is the most fundamental parameter for its structure, evolution, and final
fate. It is particularly important for any kind of stellar archaeology and characterization of …

The TESS input catalog and candidate target list

KG Stassun, RJ Oelkers, J Pepper… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be conducting a nearly all-sky
photometric survey over two years, with a core mission goal to discover small transiting …

The PLATO 2.0 mission

H Rauer, C Catala, C Aerts, T Appourchaux… - Experimental …, 2014 - Springer
PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing
accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers, it …

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 …

Spectral models for binary products: Unifying subdwarfs and Wolf-Rayet stars as a sequence of stripped-envelope stars

Y Götberg, SE De Mink, JH Groh, T Kupfer… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Stars stripped of their hydrogen-rich envelope through interaction with a binary companion
are generally not considered when accounting for ionizing radiation from stellar populations …

Hot subdwarf binaries from the MUCHFUSS project-Analysis of 12 new systems and a study of the short-period binary population

T Kupfer, S Geier, U Heber, RH Østensen… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
The project Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS
(MUCHFUSS) aims at finding hot subdwarf stars with massive compact companions like …

The Common Envelope Evolution Outcome—A Case Study on Hot Subdwarf B Stars

H Ge, CA Tout, X Chen, MU Kruckow… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Common envelope evolution (CEE) physics plays a fundamental role in the formation of
binary systems, such as merging stellar gravitational wave sources, pulsar binaries, and …

The mass range of hot subdwarf B stars from MESA simulations

E Arancibia-Rojas, M Zorotovic… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Hot subdwarf B (sdB) stars are helium core burning stars that have lost almost their entire
hydrogen envelope due to binary interaction. Their assumed canonical mass of M⊙ has …

A search for transiting planets around hot subdwarfs-I. Methods and performance tests on light curves from Kepler, K2, TESS, and CHEOPS

V Van Grootel, FJ Pozuelos, A Thuillier… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Hot subdwarfs experienced strong mass loss on the red giant branch (RGB) and
are now hot and small He-burning objects. These stars constitute excellent opportunities for …