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In this work, we present a detailed investigation of five contact binary systems of the W Ursae Majoris (W UMa) type. Multiband photometric observations were conducted using ground-based telescopes in both the northern and southern…

W UMa-type contact binaries belong to close binary systems whose components exactly overflow their Roche lobes and share a common convective envelope (CCE). In the last twenty years, the long-term variations of their orbital periods have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-14 Liang Liu , Shengbang Qian , Xiao Xiong

Massive stars are often found in multiple systems, yet how binary-star systems with very close separations ($\lesssim$ au) assemble remains unresolved. We investigate the formation and inward migration of massive-star binaries in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Sunmyon Chon , Alejandro Vigna-Gómez

The secular evolution of the orbital angular momentum (OAM), the systemic mass $(M=M_{1}+M_{2})$ and the orbital period of 114 chromospherically active binaries (CABs) were investigated after determining the kinematical ages of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Demircan , Z. Eker , Y. Karatas , S. Bilir

The evolution of helium stars with masses of 1.5 - 6.7 M_sun in binary systems with a 1.4 M_sun neutron-star companion is presented. Such systems are assumed to be the remnants of Be/X-ray binaries with B-star masses in the range of 8 - 20…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. D. M. Dewi , O. R. Pols , G. J. Savonije , E. P. J. van den Heuvel

Hot subdwarf (sdB) stars in binary systems with main-sequence (MS) companions provide valuable insights into mass transfer and envelope ejection processes in binary evolution. Their mass ratios, orbital periods, and stellar properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Jiangdan Li , Jianping Xiong , Jiao Li , Hai-Liang Chen , Hongwei Ge , Mingkuan Yang , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

We present rotation periods for the solar-type primary stars in 13 close (a~< 5 AU) single-lined spectroscopic binaries with known orbital periods (P) and eccentricities (e). All binaries are members of the open clusters M35 (150Myr) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Soren Meibom , Robert D. Mathieu , Keivan G. Stassun

We present a study of the evolutionary stage of the interacting binary and Double Periodic Variable AU Monocerotis. A multi-parametric Chi2 minimization is made between the observed parameters and those predicted by the grid of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-04 R. E. Mennickent

The photometric and spectroscopic investigations of ten contact binaries were presented for the first time. It is discovered that the mass ratios of all the ten targets are smaller than 0.15, they are extremely low mass ratio contact…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Kai Li , Xiang Gao , Xin-Yi Liu , Xing Gao , Ling-Zhi Li , Xu Chen , Guo-You Sun

Some short-period, detached binary systems have recently been reported to experience very rapid orbital decay, much faster than is expected from the angular-momentum loss caused by gravitational radiation alone. As these systems contain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Wen-Cong Chen , Philipp Podsiadlowski

Motivated by suggestions that binaries with almost equal-mass components ("twins") play an important role in the formation of double neutron stars and may be rather abundant among binaries, we study the stability of synchronized close and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 James C. Lombardi , William Holtzman , Katherine L. Dooley , Kyle Gearity , Vassiliki Kalogera , Frederic A. Rasio

Virtually all binaries consisting of a white dwarf with a non-degenerate companion can be classified as either close post-interaction systems (with orbital periods of a few days or less), or wide systems (with periods longer than decades),…

Most massive stars are believed to be born in close binary systems where they can exchange mass, which impacts the evolution of both binary components. Their evolution is of great interest in the search for the progenitors of gravitational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 M. J. Rickard , D. Pauli

For more than half a century, the puzzling W-type phenomenon in contact binaries has challenged astrophysicists. In these systems, the less massive component exhibits a higher surface temperature than its more massive companion, which is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Jia Zhang , Sheng-Bang Qian , Li-Ying Zhu , Xu-Zhi Li

The formation of a close binary system is investigated using a three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulation. Starting from a prestellar cloud, the cloud evolution is calculated until about 400 yr after protostar formation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yu Saiki , Masahiro N. Machida

Asteroid binaries found amongst the Near-Earth objects are believed to have formed from rotational fission. In this paper, we aim to study the dynamical evolution of asteroid systems the moment after fission. The initial condition is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Alex Ho , Margrethe Wold , Mohammad Poursina , John T. Conway

We analyze the dynamical evolution of binary stars that interact with a static background of single stars in the environment of a massive black hole (MBH). All stars are considered to be single mass, Newtonian point particles. We follow the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 Clovis Hopman

We present the results for orbital period analysis of 9 contact binaries (CBs). The photometric data analyzed in this work is collected using ARIES 1-m and 1.3-m telescopes as well as many ground and space-based photometric surveys. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Yogesh C. Joshi , Alaxendra Panchal

Three-dimensional simulations usually fail to cover the entire dynamical common-envelope phase of gravitational wave progenitor systems due to the vast range of spatial and temporal scales involved. We investigated the common-envelope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 M. Vetter , F. K. Roepke , F. R. N. Schneider , R. Pakmor , S. T. Ohlmann , M. Y. M. Lau , R. Andrassy

A large fraction of stars are in binary systems, yet the evolution of proto-planetary discs in binaries has been little explored from the theoretical side. In this paper we investigate the evolution of the discs surrounding the primary and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Giovanni P. Rosotti , Cathie J. Clarke