Novae are the observational manifestations of thermonuclear runaways on the surface of accreting white dwarfs (WDs). Although novae are an ubiquitous phenomenon, their properties at low metallicity are not well understood. Using the publicly-available stellar evolution code Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), we model the evolution of accreting carbon-oxygen WDs and consider models which accrete matter with metallicity Z=0.02 or $10^{-4}$. We consider both models without mixing and with matter enriched by CO-elements assuming that mixing occurs in the process of accretion (with mixing fraction 0.25). We present and contrast ignition mass, ejected mass, recurrence period and maximum luminosity of novae for different WD masses and accretion rates for these metallicities and mixing cases. We find that models with Z = 0.02 have ignition masses and recurrence periods smaller than models with low Z, while the ejected mass and maximum luminosity are larger. Retention efficiency during novae outbursts decreases with increasing metallicity. In our implementation, inclusion of mixing at the H/He interface reduces accreted mass, ejected mass and recurrence period as compared to the no-mixing case, while the maximum luminosity becomes larger. Retention efficiency is significantly reduced, becoming negative in most of our models. For ease of use, we provide a tabular summary of our results.
The metallicity of a star affects its evolution in a variety of ways, changing stellar radii, luminosities, lifetimes, and remnant properties. In this work, we use the population synthesis code binary_c to study how metallicity affects novae in the context of binary stellar evolution. We compute a 16-point grid of metallicities ranging from $Z=10^{-4}$ to 0.03, presenting distributions of nova white dwarf masses, accretion rates, delay-times, and initial system properties at the two extremes of our 16-point metallicity grid. We find a clear anti-correlation between metallicity and the number o…
I report on a large-scale search for the orbital periods (P) of most known nova systems, by looking for significant, coherent, and stable optical photometric modulation in two or more independent light curves taken mostly from the large surveys of TESS, Kepler, AAVSO, SMARTS, OGLE, ASAS, and ZTF. I have discovered 31 new orbital periods. Further, I have measured new periods for 18 novae with evolved companions, to 30 per cent accuracy, as based on their spectral energy distribution. Also, I have confirmed, improved, and rejected prior claims for P in 46 novae. (As part of this effort, I recogn…
Context. Classical novae are powered by thermonuclear runaways occurring on the surface of accreting white dwarfs (WDs). In the observations, the enrichments of heavy elements in nova ejecta have been detected, indicating a mixing process between the accreted matter and the matter from the outer layers of the underlying WDs prior to nova outbursts. However, the mixing fraction in classical novae is still uncertain. Aims. The purpose of this article is to investigate some elemental abundance ratios during nova outbursts that can be used to estimate the WD mixing fraction in classical novae. Met…
I derive the overall best distances for all 402 known galactic novae, and I collect their many properties. The centrepiece is the 74 novae with accurate parallaxes from the new Gaia data release. For the needed priors, I have collected 171 distances based on old methods (including expansion parallaxes and extinction distances). Further, I have collected the V-magnitudes at peak and the extinction measures, so as to produce absolute magnitudes at peak and then derive a crude distance as a prior. Further, I have recognized that 41 per cent of the known novae are concentrated in the bulge, with 6…
The development of a nova eruption is well known to be determined by the white dwarf (WD) mass and the rate at which it accretes mass from its donor. One of the advancements in this field is the understanding that the occurrence of a nova eruption depends on the presence of heavy elements in the envelope, and that the concentration of these elements is highly dependent on the time allotted for accretion. This results in many features of the eruption being correlated with the mass fractions of heavy elements in the ejected material, however, the accreted material is always assumed to be of sola…
Context. Classical novae are explosive phenomena that take place in stellar binary systems. They are powered by mass transfer from a low-mass main sequence star onto a white dwarf (either CO or ONe). The material accumulates for 10+4 - 10+5 yr until ignition under degenerate conditions, resulting in a thermonuclear runaway. The nuclear energy released produces peak temperatures of about 0.1 - 0.4 GK. During these events, 10-7 - 10-3 Msun enriched in intermediate-mass elements (with respect to solar abundances) are ejected into the interstellar medium. However, the origin of the large metallici…
High-resolution spectroscopy has revealed large concentrations of CNO and sometimes other intermediate-mass elements in the shells ejected during nova outbursts, suggesting that the solar composition material transferred from the secondary mixes with the outermost layers of the underlying white dwarf during the thermonuclear runaway. Multidimensional simulations have shown that Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities provide self-enrichment of the accreted envelope with material from the outermost layers of the white dwarf, at levels that agree with observations. However, the Eulerian and time-explicit…
Classical novae are thermonuclear explosions that take place in the envelopes of accreting white dwarfs in binary systems. The material piles up under degenerate conditions, driving a thermonuclear runaway. The energy released by the suite of nuclear processes operating at the envelope heats the material up to peak temperatures about 100 - 400 MK. During these events, about 10-3 - 10-7 Msun, enriched in CNO and, sometimes, other intermediate-mass elements (e.g., Ne, Na, Mg, Al) are ejected into the interstellar medium. To account for the gross observational properties of classical novae (in pa…
Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are the most advanced stage in the evolution of the most massive stars. The strong feedback provided by these objects and their subsequent supernova (SN) explosions are decisive for a variety of astrophysical topics such as the cosmic matter cycle. Consequently, understanding the properties of WR stars and their evolution is indispensable. A crucial but still not well known quantity determining the evolution of WR stars is their mass-loss rate. Since the mass loss is predicted to increase with metallicity, the feedback provided by these objects and their spectral appearan…
We present newly-calibrated period-$ϕ_{31}$-[Fe/H] relations for fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars in the optical and, for the first time, mid-infrared. This work's calibration dataset provides the largest and most comprehensive span of parameter space to date with homogeneous metallicities from $-3<\textrm{[Fe/H]}<0.4$ and accurate Fourier parameters derived from 1980 ASAS-SN ($V$-band) and 1083 WISE (NEOWISE extension, $W1$ and $W2$ bands) RR Lyrae stars with well-sampled light curves. We compare our optical period-$ϕ_{31}$-[Fe/H] with those available in the literature and demonstrate that our…
Investigating episodic mass loss in evolved massive stars IV. Comprehensive analysis of dusty red supergiants in NGC 6822, IC 10, and WLM
IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens（雅典国家天文台研究所）；National and Kapodistrian University of Athens（雅典国立卡波蒂斯特里亚大学）；Institute of Astrophysics FORTH（FORTH天体物理研究所）；Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias（加那利群岛天体物理研究所）；Grantecan S. A.（格兰特坎有限公司）；Centro de Astrofísica de La Palma（拉帕尔马天体物理中心）；Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA（CSIC-INTA天体生物学中心）
Toward a Comprehensive Grid of Cepheid Models with MESA. III. Evolutionary and Pulsation Relations for Models with Core and Envelope Overshooting
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences（波兰科学院尼古拉·哥白尼天文学中心）；Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange（法国蔚蓝海岸大学、蔚蓝海岸天文台、法国国家科学研究中心、拉格朗日实验室）
Discovery of only handful of exoplanets required to establish a correlation between giant planet occurrence and metallicity of their host stars. More than 20 years have already passed from that discovery, however, many questions are still under lively debate: What is the origin of that relation? what is the exact functional form of the giant planet -- metallicity relation (in the metal-poor regime)?, does such a relation exist for terrestrial planets? All these question are very important for our understanding of the formation and evolution of (exo)planets of different types around different t…
Toward a Comprehensive Grid of Cepheid Models with MESA II. Impact of Physical and Numerical Assumptions on Elemental Abundances
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences（波兰科学院尼古拉·哥白尼天文学中心）；Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège（列日大学空间科学、技术与天体物理研究（STAR）研究所）
Massive stars at low metallicity are among the main feedback agents in the early Universe and in present-day star forming galaxies. When in binaries, these stars are potential progenitors of gravitational-wave events. Knowledge of stellar masses is a prerequisite to understanding evolution and feedback of low-metallicity massive stars. Using abundant spectroscopic and photometric measurements of an outstandingly bright eclipsing binary, we compare its dynamic, spectroscopic, and evolutionary mass estimates and develop a binary evolution scenario. We comprehensively studied the eclipsing binary…
A comprehensive study of the relations between the properties of planetary systems and the chemical compositions of their host stars
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro（里约热内卢联邦大学）；Observatório Nacional（国家天文台）；Universidade Federal de Sergipe（塞尔希培联邦大学）；Steward Observatory, University of Arizona（亚利桑那大学斯图尔德天文台）
Hydrodynamical mass-loss rates for Very Massive Stars II. New theoretical mass-loss predictions at solar metallicity (Z = 0.02)
Armagh Observatory and Planetarium（阿马天文台和天文馆）；Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut（海德堡大学天文中心，天文计算研究所）；Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Universität Heidelberg（海德堡大学跨学科科学计算中心）
Metal-Poor Stars Observed with the Magellan Telescope I. Constraints on Progenitor Mass and Metallicity of AGB Stars Undergoing s-Process Nucleosynthesis
The Stellar Winds Atlas II: Black Hole Formation at Solar Metallicity
Universität Heidelberg, Zentrum für Astronomie (ZAH), Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik（海德堡大学天文学中心理论天体物理研究所）；Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia Galileo Galilei, Università di Padova（帕多瓦大学伽利略·伽利莱物理与天文系）；Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, San Diego（加州大学圣地亚哥分校天文与天体物理系）；Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences（波兰科学院尼古拉·哥白尼天文中心）；Astronomický ústav, Akademie věd Ceské republiky（捷克科学院天文研究所）；Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven（鲁汶大学天体物理研究所）；Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge（剑桥大学天体物理研究所）；Universität Heidelberg, Interdiszipliäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen（海德堡大学跨学科科学计算中心）；INFN, Sezione di Padova（意大利国家核物理研究所帕多瓦分部）；International Hellenic University（国际希腊大学）；IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens（雅典国立天文台应用天体物理系统分析与服务研究所）；National and Kapodistrian University of Athens（雅典国立卡波季斯特里安大学）
We perform a comprehensive analysis of the planetary nebula (PN) NGC6781 to investigate the physical conditions of each of its ionized, atomic, and molecular gas and dust components and the object's evolution, based on panchromatic observational data ranging from UV to radio. Empirical nebular elemental abundances, compared with theoretical predictions via nucleosynthesis models of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, indicate that the progenitor is a solar-metallicity, 2.25-3.0 Msun initial-mass star. We derive the best-fit distance of 0.46 kpc by fitting the stellar luminosity (as a function…
Classifying Cool Dwarfs: Comprehensive Spectral Typing of Field and Peculiar Dwarfs Using Machine Learning
Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA；Department of Astronomy \& Astrophysics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA；Department of Astronomy \& Astrophysics, 525 Davey Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA；Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, 2515 Speedway C1400, Austin, TX 78712, USA；Department of Physics；Astronomy, Hunter College, City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA；Department of Physics, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA；Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA；Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
