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eccentric ellipsoidal variables (heartbeat stars), tidally excited oscillations, massive, early-type stars and binaries, (massive, early-type) pulsating stars, time domain astronomy, modelling software: PHOEBE2, MESA
Poland, Belgium

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Employment (4)

University of Wrocław: Wroclaw, PL

2023 to present | Assistant Professor (Wydział Fizyki i Astronomii)
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański

Université de Liège: Liège, BE

2023 to 2025 | Post-doctoral fellow in astrophysics (Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique)
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Uniwersytet Wrocławski: Wroclaw, PL

2018 to 2023 | Teaching Assistant (Wydział Fizyki i Astronomii)
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański

University of Wrocław: Wrocław, Dolnośląskie, PL

2018 to 2023 | PhD Student (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Uniwersytet Wrocławski: Wroclaw, PL

2018 to 2023 | PhD in astronomy (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański

University of Wrocław: Wrocław, Dolnośląskie, PL

2012 to 2018 | Master in astronomy (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
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Polish Astronomical Society: Warszawa, PL

2018 to present | Regular member
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Funding (4)

Binarity as a clue for understanding the origin of blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs)

2023 to 2027 | Grant
Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Kraków, PL)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2022/45/B/ST9/03862
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański

Search for eccentric ellipsoidal variables with intermediate-mass and massive components

2023 to 2025 | Grant
Université de Liège (Liège, BE)
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański

Observational analysis and theoretical modeling of tidal effects in eccentric binary systems containing massive components

2020 to 2023 | Grant
Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Kraków, PL)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2019/35/N/ST9/03805
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański

Asteroseismology of hot stars in the era of space observations and massive photometry

2017 to 2020 | Grant
Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Kraków, PL)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2016/21/B/ST9/01126
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański

Works (15)

Blue large-amplitude pulsators formed from the merger of low-mass white dwarfs

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Piotr A. Kołaczek-Szymański; Andrzej Pigulski; Piotr Łojko
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OGLE-BLAP-001 and ZGP-BLAP-08: Two possible magnetic blue large-amplitude pulsators

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Andrzej Pigulski; Piotr A. Kołaczek-Szymański; Marta Święch; Piotr Łojko; Kacper J. Kowalski
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Exploring extreme brightness variations in blue supergiant MACHO 80.7443.1718: Evidence for companion-driven enhanced mass loss

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-06 | Journal article
Contributors: P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański; P. Łojko; A. Pigulski; T. Różański; D. Moździerski
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Spectrum of the secondary component and new orbital elements of the massive triple star δ Ori A

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2023-04 | Journal article
Contributors: A. Oplištilová; P. Mayer; P. Harmanec; M. Brož; A. Pigulski; H. Božić; P. Zasche; M. Šlechta; H. Pablo; P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański et al.
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Theoretical investigation of the occurrence of tidally excited oscillations in massive eccentric binary systems

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2023-03 | Journal article
Contributors: P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański; T. Różański
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HD 133729: A blue large-amplitude pulsator in orbit around a main-sequence B-type star

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: A. Pigulski; K. Kotysz; P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański
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The eclipsing binary systems with δ Scuti component – II. AB Cas

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2022-04-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0035-8711
Part of ISSN: 1365-2966
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański
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Photometric Analysis of the OGLE Heartbeat Stars

The Astrophysical Journal
2022-04-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Marcin Wrona; Piotr A. Kołaczek-Szymański; Milena Ratajczak; Szymon Kozłowski
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Tidally excited oscillations in MACHO 80.7443.1718: Changing amplitudes and frequencies, high-frequency tidally excited mode, and a decrease in the orbital period

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2022-03 | Journal article
Contributors: P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański; A. Pigulski; M. Wrona; M. Ratajczak; A. Udalski
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An Absolute Calibration of the Near-infrared Period–Luminosity Relations of Type II Cepheids in the Milky Way and in the Large Magellanic Cloud

The Astrophysical Journal
2022-03-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0004-637X
Part of ISSN: 1538-4357
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański

The OGLE Collection of Variable Stars: One Thousand Heartbeat Stars in the Galactic Bulge and Magellanic Clouds

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
2022-03-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Marcin Wrona; Milena Ratajczak; Piotr A. Kołaczek-Szymański; Szymon Kozłowski; Igor Soszyński; Patryk Iwanek; Andrzej Udalski; Michał K. Szymański; Paweł Pietrukowicz; Dorota M. Skowron et al.
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Massive heartbeat stars from TESS

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2021-03 | Journal article
Contributors: P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański; A. Pigulski; G. Michalska; D. Moździerski; T. Różański
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TESS first look at evolved compact pulsators

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2019-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0004-6361
Part of ISSN: 1432-0746
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański

Rotation and pulsation in Ap stars: first light results from TESS sectors 1 and 2

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2019-08-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0035-8711
Part of ISSN: 1365-2966
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański

HD 133729: A blue large-amplitude pulsator in orbit around a main-sequence B-type star

Accepted for publication in A&A
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Piotr Antoni Kołaczek-Szymański