Xue-Fei Chen

1 articles · 18 co-authors · latest: 2026-08-12
2,327 citations · h-index 23 · 124 papersData: Semantic Scholar

We have retold 1 papers by this author. most often about: stellar evolution, binary star, brown dwarf. 18 co-authors across our retellings.

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Stellar2026-08-122 minarXiv:2608.11557express
The Invisible Star and Its Heavy Companion
Two spinning tops whirl so close they nearly touch. One is scorching blue, the other dim white. Together they complete a full orbit in twenty hours. This is the pair Feige 64: a blue star with a mass of just a third of the Sun's, and a white dwarf, the cooled core of a former star, one and a half times heavier than our Sun. The blue star seems too hot for its mass.