Chemodynamical history of the galactic bulge

B Barbuy, C Chiappini, O Gerhard - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The Galactic Bulge can uniquely be studied from large samples of individual stars and is
therefore of prime importance for understanding the stellar population structure of bulges in …

Old-aged primary distance indicators

RL Beaton, G Bono, VF Braga, M Dall'Ora… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Old-aged stellar distance indicators are present in all Galactic structures (halo, bulge, disk)
and in galaxies of all Hubble types and, thus, are immensely powerful tools for …

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): pulsating variable stars, rotation, convective boundaries, and energy conservation

B Paxton, R Smolec, J Schwab… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We update the capabilities of the open-knowledge software instrument Modules for
Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). RSP is a new functionality in MESAstar that …

Gaia Data Release 3-Specific processing and validation of all-sky RR Lyrae and Cepheid stars: The RR Lyrae sample

G Clementini, V Ripepi, A Garofalo, R Molinaro… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. RR Lyrae stars are excellent tracers of the oldest stars (ages≳ 9–10 Gyr) and
standard candles for measuring the distance to stellar systems that are mainly composed of …

Updated BaSTI stellar evolution models and isochrones. II. α-enhanced calculations

A Pietrinferni, S Hidalgo, S Cassisi… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This is the second paper of a series devoted to presenting an updated release of the BaSTI
(a Bag of Stellar Tracks and Isochrones) stellar model and isochrone library. Following the …

Gaia-derived luminosities of Kepler A/F stars and the pulsator fraction across the δ Scuti instability strip

SJ Murphy, D Hey, T Van Reeth… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study the fraction of stars in and around the δ Scuti instability strip that are pulsating,
using Gaia DR2 parallaxes to derive precise luminosities. We classify a sample of over 15 …

The Hubble space telescope survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies. I. RR Lyrae–based distances and refined 3D geometric structure

A Savino, DR Weisz, ED Skillman… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure homogeneous distances to M31 and 38 associated stellar systems (− 16.8≤
MV≤− 6.0), using time-series observations of RR Lyrae stars taken as part of the Hubble …

Machine-learned identification of RR Lyrae stars from sparse, multi-band data: the PS1 sample

B Sesar, N Hernitschek, S Mitrović, Ž Ivezić… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Machine-learned Identification of RR Lyrae Stars from Sparse, Multi-band Data: The PS1
Sample - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to our use …

RR Lyrae stars as standard candles in the Gaia Data Release 2 Era

T Muraveva, HE Delgado, G Clementini… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present results from the analysis of 401 RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) belonging to the field of
the Milky Way (MW). For a fraction of them multiband (V, K s, W 1) photometry, metal …

Deciphering the 3D structure of the old Galactic bulge from the OGLE RR Lyrae stars

P Pietrukowicz, S Kozłowski, J Skowron… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We have analyzed a sample of 27,258 fundamental-mode RR Lyrae variable stars (type
RRab) detected recently toward the Galactic bulge by the Optical Gravitational Lensing …