Taking advantage of the ultra-deep near-infrared imaging obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, we detect and explore for the...
Exciting things may have happened sometimes to the stars we see in the sky today. For example, Betelgeuse, also known as Alpha-Ori, an M-type red supergiant...
Supplement: "An Isolated Mass-gap Black Hole or Neutron Star Detected with Astrometric Microlensing" (2022, ApJL, 933, L23)
This supplement provides supporting material for Lam et al. We briefly summarize past gravitational microlensing searches for black holes (BHs) and present...
The Dwarf Irregular Galaxy NGC 6822. II. Young, Intermediate and Old Stellar Populations: Comparison between Theory and Observations
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the stellar content in the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822 by comparing stellar evolution models and...
The First Systematic Survey of Stellar Halos in High-inclination Galaxies Reveals Unusually Quiescent Merger Histories of Nearby Galaxies
Stellar halos are the only major stellar component of disk galaxies that lack systematic observational characterization, yet they encode critical information...
The impact of Galactic evolution on binary interactions, as shown in hot subdwarf binaries
Wide hot subdwarf B (sdB) binaries with main-sequence companions are outcomes of stable mass transfer from evolved red giants. The orbits of these binaries show...
The integrated galactic IMF - from star clusters to galaxies
Over the past years observations of young and populous star clusters have shown that the stellar initial mass function (IMF) can be conveniently described by a...