Andong安东Xu徐

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are rare, hot, short-period pulsating stars whose rapid oscillations provide a unique probe of stellar interiors and atmospheres. In this paper, we study two short-period BLAPs in the Galactic bulge, Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE)-BLAP-142 ( P ≈ 6.6 minutes) and OGLE-BLAP-148 ( P ≈ 7.5 minutes), by combining light curves from the OGLE, KMTNet, and DREAMS surveys, spanning 17 yr with cadences ranging from minutes to hours to days. We perform generalized Lomb–Scargle periodogram analyses of their light curves and identify, for each BLAP, three closely spaced pulsation modes separated by ∼1%. The dominant mode can switch within timescales of order a year, accompanied by a likely blueward color shift (∼0.1–0.2 mag). The yearly period excursions of the resolved mode families imply apparent ∣ P ̇ / P ∣ values of order 10 ⁻⁶ –10 ⁻⁴ yr ⁻¹ , large enough to mimic or exceed smooth evolutionary period changes. One mode family in OGLE-BLAP-148 shows a coherent decade-long drift at the ∼10 ⁻⁵ yr ⁻¹ level, but its failure to extrapolate to the earliest and latest epochs suggests a transient mode-family drift rather than secular evolution. Such close-spaced multiple pulsations and mode switching may be common among BLAPs with periods shorter than 10 minutes, and their physical origin remains unclear.

We present the analysis of the microlensing event KMT-2026-BLG-0083, which was independently detected by the KMTNet, OGLE, and PRIME surveys and also monitored by the DREAMS survey. The combined data provide dense coverage of two distinct short-duration anomalies in the light curve that cannot be reproduced by a standard binary-lens model. Independent analyses of the two anomalies indicate that each is produced by a planetary companion to the lens, motivating a triple-lens interpretation. The modeling yields two pairs of degenerate solutions arising from the well-known inner–outer degeneracy, with each pair exhibiting two local solutions depending on whether the source passes above or below the distant planetary companion. The preferred model indicates two giant planets with mass ratios q ₂ = (5.25 ± 0.08) × 10 ⁻³ and q ₃ = (3.04 ± 0.24) × 10 ⁻³ orbiting a common host. Bayesian analysis indicates that the host is an M-dwarf star with a mass of 0.4 8 − 0.28 + 0.36 M ⊙ , hosting two giant planets with masses of 2.6 5 − 1.55 + 1.96 M J and 1.5 4 − 0.90 + 1.14 M J . The projected planet–host separations are 10 . 6 − 2.2 + 1.7 au and 1 . 7 − 0.3 + 0.3 au, placing the inner planet near the host’s snow line and the outer planet at a substantially larger separation. Thus, KMT-2026-BLG-0083L becomes the seventh confirmed multiple-planet system discovered through gravitational microlensing, providing another example of a cold giant planetary system orbiting a subsolar-mass star.

The DECam Rogue Earths and Mars Survey (DREAMS), a NOIRLab survey program, has been conducting a 3 yr survey covering a 5 deg ² area in the Galactic bulge (roughly spanning − 1 . ° 2 ≲ ℓ ≲ + 2 . ° 1 and − 2 . ° 8 ≲ b ≲ − 0 . ° 6 ) since 2025 June. Its primary science goal is to detect low-mass free-floating planets through microlensing, while its minute-level cadence (20–40 hr ⁻¹ in the z band and 4–8 hr ⁻¹ in the r band) also enables the detection and characterization of rapid phenomena on timescales of minutes to hours such as stellar flares and pulsating stars. The survey reaches a single-exposure depth of z _AB ∼ 22 mag, about 2 mag deeper than previous bulge time-domain surveys. We present the data reduction and calibration of the DREAMS observations obtained in 2025 and introduce the first DREAMS data release (DR1; https://astro.westlake.edu.cn/dreams/ ). DR1 includes 1856 z -band observations and 325 r -band observations for 59,372,789 stars. The DREAMS DR1 catalog contains about twice as many stars as any previous catalog covering the same 5 deg ² area. We present DREAMS light curves for a known blue large-amplitude pulsator and a known low-amplitude transiting system to demonstrate the survey’s capabilities. We also perform a pilot search for short-duration variables over about 0.4% of the DR1 sample, identifying one new short microlensing event, two stellar flares, and 24 new short variables. This suggests that DREAMS DR1 may contain hundreds of stellar flares and thousands of previously unknown short variables.