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The eclipsing brown-dwarf binary system 2MASS J05352184-0546085 is a case sui generis. For the first time, it allows a detailed analysis of the individual properties of young brown dwarfs, in particular, masses, and radii, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Czesla , P. C. Schneider , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

We report the discovery of a rare close binary system, SMSS J160639.78-100010.7, comprised of a magnetic white dwarf with a field of about 30 MG and a brown dwarf. We measured an orbital period of 92 min which is consistent with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Adela Kawka , Stephane Vennes , Lilia Ferrario , M. S. Bessell , S. C. Keller , E. Paunzen , D. A. H. Buckley , D. Groenewald , J. Janik , M. Zejda

[abridged] We report four years of radial velocity monitoring observations of SDSS J080531.84+481233.0 that reveal significant and periodic variability, confirming the binary nature of the source. We infer an orbital period of 2.02$\pm$0.03…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Adam J. Burgasser , Cullen H. Blake , Christopher R. Gelino , Johannes Sahlmann , Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi

We report the discovery of 2M0056-08 as an equal-mass eclipsing binary (EB), comprising two red straggler stars (RSSs) with an orbital period of 33.9 d. Both stars have masses of 1.419 Msun, identical to within 0.2%. Both stars appear to be…

Using the Gemini infrared camera on the 3-meter Shane telescope at Lick Observatory, we have searched for broad-band J and K' photometric variability for a sample of 15 L and T-type brown dwarfs, including 7 suspected spectral binaries.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-12 Harish Khandrika , Adam Burgasser , Carl Melis , Christopher Luk , Emily Bowsher , Brandon Swift

We report our investigation of 1SWASP J234401.81-212229.1, a variable with a 18461.6 s period. After identification in a 2011 search of the SuperWASP archive for main-sequence eclipsing binary candidates near the distribution's short-period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. E. Lohr , A. J. Norton , U. C. Kolb , D. R. S. Boyd

Using light curves from the HATNet survey for transiting extrasolar planets we investigate the optical broad-band photometric variability of a sample of 27,560 field K and M dwarfs selected by color and proper-motion. A total of 2120 stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-04 J. D. Hartman , G. Á. Bakos , R. W. Noyes , B. Sipöcz , G. Kovács , T. Mazeh , A. Shporer , A. Pál

We announce the discovery of a new eclipsing hot subdwarf B + M dwarf binary, EC 10246-2707, and present multi-colour photometric and spectroscopic observations of this system. Similar to other HW Vir-type binaries, the light curve shows…

We present time-series spectroscopy and photometry of Gaia DR2 6097540197980557440, a new deeply-eclipsing hot subdwarf B (sdB) + M dwarf (dM) binary. We discovered this object during the course of the Eclipsing Reflection Effect Binaries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Kyle A. Corcoran , Brad N. Barlow , Veronika Schaffenroth , Uli Heber , Stephen Walser , Andreas Irgang

2MASS J03202839-0446358AB is a recently identified, late-type M dwarf/T dwarf spectroscopic binary system for which both the radial velocity orbit for the primary and spectral types for both components have been determined. By combining…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam J. Burgasser , Cullen H. Blake

We present the discovery of NGTS J214358.5-380102, an eccentric M-dwarf binary discovered by the Next Generation Transit Survey. The system period of 7.618 days is greater than many known eclipsing M-dwarf binary systems. Its orbital…

We present the discovery of CoRoT 223992193, a double-lined, detached eclipsing binary, comprising two pre-main sequence M dwarfs, discovered by the CoRoT space mission during a 23-day observation of the 3 Myr old NGC 2264 star-forming…

The two objects 1SWASP J150822.80-054236.9 and 1SWASP J160156.04+202821.6 were initially detected from their SuperWASP archived light curves as candidate eclipsing binaries with periods close to the short-period cut-off of the orbital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-07 M. E. Lohr , S. T. Hodgkin , A. J. Norton , U. C. Kolb

We present updated results of a high-resolution, magnitude limited (Ks<12 mag) imaging survey of nearby low-mass M6.0-M7.5 field stars. The observations were carried out using adaptive optics at the Gemini North, VLT, Keck II, and Subaru…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nick Siegler , Laird M. Close , Kelle L. Cruz , Eduardo L. Martin , I. Neill Reid

We report the discovery of ZTF J2243+5242, an eclipsing double white dwarf binary with an orbital period of just $8.8$ minutes, the second known eclipsing binary with an orbital period less than ten minutes. The system likely consists of…

Eclipsing brown dwarfs are important calibrators of sub-stellar evolution models used to infer the characteristics of directly imaged brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets. Only two double brown dwarf eclipsing binary systems are known, among…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Seb T. Millward , Vedad Kunovac

We have discovered that the extremely red, low-gravity L7 dwarf 2MASS J11193254-1137466 is a 0.14" (3.6 AU) binary using Keck laser guide star adaptive optics imaging. 2MASS J11193254-1137466 has previously been identified as a likely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-10 William M. J. Best , Michael C. Liu , Trent J. Dupuy , Eugene A. Magnier

We report the discovery of 16 detached M-dwarf eclipsing binaries with J<16 mag and provide a detailed characterisation of three of them, using high-precision infrared light curves from the WFCAM Transit Survey (WTS). Such systems provide…

Using high-resolution spectra from the Tillinghast Reflector Echelle Spectrograph (TRES) and photometry from sector 56 of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), we report that the nearby M dwarf G 68-34 is a double-lined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Emily K Pass , David Charbonneau