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Thirty Circumbinary Disk Occultation Systems (KH 15D-like stars) from the OGLE Project

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2026-05-12 v1

Abstract

We present a catalog of 30 stars that are candidates for KH 15D-like binary systems, in which the observed brightness variations are caused by a circumbinary dusty disk that periodically obscures at least one of the stellar components as it moves along its orbit. Thanks to the regular observations conducted within the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) project, we provide unique light curves in the I and V bands with very long time baselines, in some cases beginning as early as 1997 and extending to the present day. Such long-term monitoring allows us to identify changes in eclipse widths, amplitudes, and light-curve shapes on timescales of many years. We highlight several circumbinary disk occultation (CBO) systems of particular interest and present spectra for three of them.

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@article{arxiv.2605.08470,
  title  = {Thirty Circumbinary Disk Occultation Systems (KH 15D-like stars) from the OGLE Project},
  author = {M. A. Urbanowicz and I. Soszyński and P. Pietrukowicz and A. Udalski and P. Mróz and M. Wrona and M. Ratajczak and M. K. Szymański and J. Skowron and D. M. Skowron and R. Poleski and S. Kozłowski and P. Iwanek and K. Ulaczyk and K. Rybicki and M. Gromadzki and M. Mróz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08470},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 12 figures