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We present catalog of 26 121 visually inspected eclipsing binary stars identified in the Large Magellanic Cloud during the third phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. The sample is limited to the out-of-eclipse brightness I…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-03 D. Graczyk , I. Soszyński , R. Poleski , G. Pietrzyński , A. Udalski , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , Ł. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk

We presented the first photometric light curve solutions of four W Ursae Majoris (W UMa)-type contact binary systems. This investigation utilized photometric data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and Gaia Data Release 3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Atila Poro , Razieh Aliakbari , Hossein Azarara , Asma Ababafi , Sadegh Nasirian

We present three color, BVI maps of the Small Magellanic Cloud. The maps contain precise photometric and astrometric data for about 2.2 million stars from the central regions of the SMC bar covering ~2.4 square degrees on the sky. Mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Udalski , M. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , P. Wozniak , K. Zebrun

The preliminary distance to a long period eclipsing binary in the Small Magellanic Cloud SMC108.1.14904 is presented. The binary system contains two non-active G-type bright giants. The orbital period is 185 days and the orbit is circular.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-07 Dariusz Graczyk , Grzegorz Pietrzynski , Bogumił Pilecki , Ian B. Thompson , Wolfgang Gieren , Piotr Konorski , Andrzej Udalski , Igor Soszynski

Light curves of microlensing events involving stellar binaries and planetary systems can provide information about the orbital elements of the system due to orbital modulations of the caustic structure. Accurately measuring the orbit in…

We carried out numerical experiments on the evaluation of the possibilities of obtaining the information about brightness distributions for the components of eclipsing variables from the data of high-precision photometry expected for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. B. Bogdanov , A. M. Cherepashchuk

Reanalyzing contact binaries with space-based photometric data and investigating possible parameter changes can yield accurate samples for theoretical studies. We investigated light curve solutions and fundamental parameters for twenty…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Ehsan Paki , Atila Poro

Context: Multiple stellar systems are unique laboratories for astrophysics. Analysis of their orbital dynamics may reveal invaluable information about the physical properties of the participating stars. Unfortunately, there are only a few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 J. Juryšek , P. Zasche , M. Wolf , J. Vraštil , D. Vokrouhlický , M. Skarka , J. Liška , J. Janík , M. Zejda , P. Kurfürst , E. Paunzen

We search for systems hosting eclipsing discs using a complete sample of eclipsing binaries (EBs); those previously identified in the third phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III). Within a subsample of 2,823…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Zeyang Meng , Alice C. Quillen , Cameron P. M. Bell , Eric E. Mamajek , Erin L. Scott , Ji-Lin Zhou

In this first paper of the series we describe our project to calibrate the distance determination method based on early-type binary systems. The final objective is to measure accurate, geometrical distances to galaxies beyond the Magellanic…

We present a new algorithm -- Eclipsing Binary Automated Solver (EBAS), to analyse lightcurves of eclipsing binaries. The algorithm is designed to analyse large numbers of lightcurves, and is therefore based on the relatively fast EBOP…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Omer Tamuz , Tsevi Mazeh , Pierre North

Twenty eclipsing binaries were selected for an analysis from a huge database of observations made by the INTEGRAL/OMC camera. The photometric data were processed and analyzed, resulting in a first light-curve study of these neglected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-12 P. Zasche

We report on the study of the population of B and Be stars in SMC young clusters, performed with the Wide Field Imager in slitless spectroscopic mode at ESO/T2.2m with a filter centered at Halpha. First, we explain the reduction methods we…

The advent of large scale multi-epoch surveys raises the need for automated light curve (LC) processing. This is particularly true for eclipsing binaries (EBs), which form one of the most populated types of variable objects. The Gaia…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 N. Mowlavi , I. Lecoeur-Taïbi , B. Holl , L. Rimoldini , F. Barblan , A. Prsa , A. Kochoska , M. Süveges , L. Eyer , K. Nienartowicz , G. Jevardat , J. Charnas , L. Guy , M. Audard

Massive contact binaries (CBs) are key to understanding close-binary evolution and stellar mergers, yet their study has been limited by the scarcity of observed systems, particularly of B-type binaries expected to dominate this class. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Athira Menon , Michal Pawlak , Daniel J. Lennon , Koushik Sen , Norbert Langer

We present an automated classification of 2165 \textit{Kepler} eclipsing binary (EB) light curves that accompanied the second \textit{Kepler} data release. The light curves are classified using Locally Linear Embedding, a general nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Gal Matijevic , Andrej Prsa , Jerome A. Orosz , William F. Welsh , Steven Bloemen , Thomas Barclay

The orbital motion of a neutron star about its optical companion presents a window through which to study the orbital parameters of that binary system. This has been used extensively in the Milky Way to calculate these parameters for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 L. J. Townsend , M. J. Coe , R. H. D. Corbet , A. B. Hill

We present a method for solving the lightcurve of an eclipsing binary system which contains a Cepheid variable as one of its components as well as the solutions for three eclipsing Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). A geometric…

In the last decade, over 7000 eclipsing binaries have been discovered in the Local Group through various variability surveys. Measuring fundamental parameters of these eclipsing binaries has become feasible with 8 meter class telescopes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-18 A. Z. Bonanos

We present the results of our study of the eclipsing binary systems CSS J112237.1+395219, LINEAR 1286561 and LINEAR 2602707 based on new CCD $B$, $V$, $R_c$ and $I_c$ complete light curves. The ultra-short period nature of the stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 F. Acerbi , R. Michel , C. Barani , M. Martignoni , L. Fox-Machado