The Highly-Eccentric Detached Eclipsing Binaries in ACVS and MACC
Abstract
Next-generation synoptic photometric surveys will yield unprecedented (for the astronomical community) volumes of data and the processes of discovery and rare-object identification are, by necessity, becoming more autonomous. Such autonomous searches can be used to find objects of interest applicable to a wide range of outstanding problems in astronomy, and in this paper we present the methods and results of a largely autonomous search for highly eccentric detached eclipsing binary systems in the Machine-learned ASAS Classification Catalog. 106 detached eclipsing binaries with eccentricities greater than 0.1 are presented, most of which are identified here for the first time. We also present new radial-velocity curves and absolute parameters for 6 of those systems with the long-term goal of increasing the number of highly eccentric systems with orbital solutions, thereby facilitating further studies of the tidal circularization process in binary stars.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1403.5564,
title = {The Highly-Eccentric Detached Eclipsing Binaries in ACVS and MACC},
author = {Isaac Shivvers and Joshua S. Bloom and Joseph W. Richards},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5564},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
13 pages, 4 tables, 6 figures; Accepted for publication in MNRAS; References updated