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...
Symbiotic Stars in the Era of Modern Ground- and Space-Based Surveys
Symbiotic stars, interacting binaries composed of a cool giant and a hot compact companion, exhibit complex variability across the electromagnetic spectrum...
Testing stellar evolutionary theory with asteroseismology and/in binary stars
The theory of stellar evolution is well developed over the past decades, and in particular the predictions of one dimensional numerical models have passed basic...
The age decay of stellar magnetic activity in MS field solar-type stars
The age decay of two indicators of the stellar magnetic activity (λ2800 Mg II emission flux and λ10830 He I equivalent width) have been studied for field solar...
The APOGEE Library of Infrared SSP Templates (A-LIST): High-resolution Simple Stellar Population Spectral Models in the H Band
Integrated light spectroscopy from galaxies can be used to study the stellar populations that cannot be resolved into individual stars. This analysis relies on...
The Carbon Star DY Persei May Be a Cool R Coronae Borealis Variable
Optical and near-IR photometry suggests that the carbon star DY Persei exhibits fadings similar to those of R Coronae Borealis (RCB) variables. Photometric...
A general panorama of SS Cygni is presented. The paper first describes the CV cataclysmic variables and the current theories which attempt to describe their...
In this seminar I will focus on how the avalanche of new data changes our views on how our Galaxy formed and evolved. Precise astrometric, spectroscopic...
The new observational O/Fe vs Fe/H relationship in halo dwarfs is analyzed in terms of a model of chemical evolution for the solar neighborhood. The role of...