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(Abridged) Aims:We develop a method for deriving distances from spectroscopic data and obtaining full 6D phase-space coordinates for the RAVE survey's second data release. Methods: We used stellar models combined with atmospheric properties…

We present a detailed light curve analysis of publicly available V band observations of 62 binary stars, mostly contact binaries, obtained by the All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS)-3 project between 2000 and 2009. Eclipsing binaries are…

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Eclipsing binary star systems provide the most accurate method of measuring both the masses and radii of stars. Moreover, they enable testing tidal synchronization and circularization theories, as well as constraining models of stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-04 Jonathan Devor

The RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is an ambitious survey to measure the radial velocities, temperatures, surface gravities, metallicities and abundance ratios for up to a million stars using the 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Steinmetz , A. Siebert , T. Zwitter

We present part 2 of the 6th and final Data Release (DR6 or FDR) of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), a magnitude-limited (9<I<12) spectroscopic survey of Galactic stars randomly selected in the southern hemisphere. The RAVE…

Exoplanets can be detected with various observational techniques. Among them, radial velocity (RV) has the key advantages of revealing the architecture of planetary systems and measuring planetary mass and orbital eccentricities. RV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Nathan C. Hara , Eric B. Ford

A Bayesian approach to the determination of stellar distances from photometric and spectroscopic data is presented and tested both on pseudodata, designed to mimic data for stars observed by the RAVE survey, and on the real stars from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Benedict Burnett , James Binney

Eclipsing binaries are vital for directly determining stellar parameters without reliance on models or scaling relations. Spectroscopically derived parameters of detached and semi-detached binaries allow us to determine component masses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Rachel A. Matson , Douglas R. Gies , Zhao Guo , Stephen J. Williams

One of important aims of astronomical data mining is to systematically search for specific rare objects in a massive spectral dataset, given a small fraction of identified samples with the same type. Most existing methods are mainly based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Changde Du , Ali Luo , Haifeng Yang , Wen Hou , Yanxin Guo

RAVE, the RAdial Velocity Experiment, is an ambitious program to conduct a survey to measure the radial velocities, metallicities and abundance ratios for up to a million stars using the 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope of the Anglo-Australian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Siebert , the RAVE collaboration

Detached eclipsing binaries are a fundamental tool for measuring the physical parameters of stars that are effectively evolving in isolation. Starting from more than 40,000 eclipsing binary candidates identified by the All-Sky Automated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 D. M. Rowan , T. Jayasinghe , K. Z. Stanek , C. S. Kochanek , Todd A. Thompson , B. J. Shappee , T. W. -S. Holoien , J. L. Prieto , W. Giles

We present the first discoveries of the double-lined double white dwarf (DBL) survey that targets over-luminous sources with respect to the canonical white dwarf cooling sequence according to a set of well-defined criteria. The primary goal…

We have compiled the first all-sky mid-infrared variable-star catalog based on Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) five-year survey data. Requiring more than 100 detections for a given object, 50,282 carefully and robustly selected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Xiaodian Chen , Shu Wang , Licai Deng , Richard de Grijs , Ming Yang

I present a brief summary of three different types of binary star - astrometric, spectroscopic and eclipsing - and tabulate the properties of these systems that can be determined directly from observations. Eclipsing binary stars are the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 John Southworth

Variable stars, or particularly eclipsing binaries, are very essential astronomical occurrence. Surveys are the backbone of astronomy, and many discoveries of variable stars are the results of surveys. All-Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) is one…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lidia Mayangsari , Rhorom Priyatikanto , Mahasena Putra

The fifth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) includes the first large-scale spectroscopic survey of white dwarfs (WDs) in the era of Gaia parallaxes. SDSS-V collects multiple exposures per target, making it ideal for binary…

We derive the absolute physical and orbital parameters for a sample of 18 detached eclipsing binaries from the \emph{All Sky Automated Survey} (ASAS) database based on the available photometry and our own radial velocity measurements. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. G. Hełminiak , M. Konacki , M. Ratajczak , M. Muterspaugh

Masses and radii of stars can be derived by combining eclipsing binary light curves with spectroscopic orbits. In our previous work, we modeled the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) light curves of more than 30,000 detached…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 D. M. Rowan , T. Jayasinghe , K. Z. Stanek , C. S. Kochanek , Todd A. Thompson , B. J. Shappee , W. Giles

Space-based photometry has substantially increased the number of pulsating stars found in binary systems by more than four orders of magnitude. Combined with high-resolution spectroscopy, high-precision photometry offers model-independent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Ema Šipková , Alex Kemp , Dario Fritzewski , Andrew Tkachenko , Dominic M. Bowman , Conny Aerts , Jasmine Vrancken

The period, mass ratio, eccentricity, and other orbital parameters are fundamental for investigating binary star evolution. However, the number of binaries with known orbital parameters remains limited. Utilizing the LAMOST-MRS survey, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Sufen Guo , Mikhail Kovalev , Jiao Li , Guoliang Lu , Shi Jia , Zhenwei Li , Jiangdan Li , Jianping Xiong , Mingkuan Yang , Tongyu He , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han