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We present the first detailed investigation of six eclipsing binary systems in the TESS field. The TESS light curves of the targets are analysed by determining the initial effective temperatures via SED fits. The absolute parameters are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Burak Ulas , Vildan Ayan

Close binary stars are binary stars where the component stars are close enough such that they can exchange mass and/or energy. They are subdivided into semi-detached, overcontact or ellipsoidal binary stars. A challenging problem in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Sandip V. George , R. Misra , G. Ambika

lightcurver is a photometric pipeline for time series astronomical imaging data, designed for the semi-automatic extraction of precise light curves from small, blended targets. Such targets include, but are not limited to, lensed quasars,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Frédéric Dux

We present seven newly discovered non-eclipsing short-period binary systems with low-mass companions, identified by the recently introduced BEER algorithm, applied to the publicly available 138-day photometric light curves obtained by the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Faigler , T. Mazeh , S. N. Quinn , D. W. Latham , L. Tal-Or

We present the first data release of the Kepler Smear Campaign, using collateral 'smear' data obtained in the Kepler four-year mission to reconstruct light curves of 102 stars too bright to have been otherwise targeted. We describe the…

We have compiled a catalogue of eclipsing variable stars, the largest catalogue, containing classified eclipsing binaries. A procedure for the classification of eclipsing binaries, based on the catalogued data, is also developed. It was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-20 Oleg Malkov , Ekaterina Avvakumova

KIC 4247791 is an eclipsing binary observed by the Kepler satellite mission. We wish to determine the nature of its components and in particular the origin of a shallow dip in its Kepler light curve that previous investigations have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-06 H. Lehmann , M. Zechmeister , S. Dreizler , S. Schuh , R. Kanzler

The mutual orbital alignment in multiple planetary systems is an important parameter for understanding their formation. There are a number of elaborate techniques to determine the alignment parameters using photometric or spectroscopic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-29 Holger M. Müller , Panagiotis Ioannidis , Jürgen H. M. M. Schmitt

We propose a new framework to predict stellar properties from light curves. We analyze the light-curve data from the Kepler space mission and develop a novel tool for deriving the stellar rotation periods for main-sequence stars. Using this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Ilay Kamai , Hagai B. Perets

In this work we quantify the performance of $LSST$ on the detection of eclipsing binaries. We use $Kepler$ observed binaries to create a large sample of simulated pseudo-$LSST$ binary light curves. From these light curves, we attempt to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Mark Wells , Andrej Prša , Lynne Jones , Peter Yoachim

Based on luminosity contributions, we develop a spectroscopic modelling method to derive atmospheric parameters of component stars in binary systems. The method is designed for those spectra of binaries which show double-lined features due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Xiang-Lei Chen , A-Li Luo , Jian-Jun Chen , Rui Wang , Xiao-Bin Zhang , Wen Hou , Bo Qiu , Fang Zuo

Abridged. Eclipsing spectroscopic double-lined binaries are the prime source of precise and accurate measurements of masses and radii of stars. These measurements provide a stringent test of models of stellar evolution that are persistently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 A. Tkachenko , K. Pavlovski , N. Serebriakova , D. M. Bowman , L. IJspeert , S. Gebruers , J. Southworth

We exploit high quality photometry from the EVEREST pipeline to evaluate false-positive exoplanet candidates from the K2 mission. We compare the practical capabilities of EVEREST's pixel-level decorrelation scheme to the data analysis…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Michael Greklek-McKeon , Drake Deming

Many short-period binary stars have distant orbiting companions that have played a role in driving the binary components into close separation. Indirect detection of a tertiary star is possible by measuring apparent changes in eclipse times…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 D. R. Gies , R. A. Matson , Z. Guo , K. V. Lester , J. A. Orosz , G. J. Peters

Results of an archival survey are presented using B-band imaging of the eastern spiral arm of M31. Focusing on the eclipsing binary star population, a matched-filter technique has been used to identify 280 binary systems. Of these, 127…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ian Todd , Don Pollacco , Ian Skillen , D. M. Bramich , Steve Bell , Thomas Augusteijn

The K2 eclipsing binary candidates EPIC 211982753 (hereinafter called EPIC2753) and EPIC 211915147 (hereinafter called EPIC5147) are characterized with the help of photometric and high-resolution spectroscopic data. The light curve analysis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Alaxender Panchal , Y. C. Joshi , Peter De Cat , Patricia Lampens , Aruna Goswami , S. N. Tiwari

We carried out light curve solutions of the ultrashort-period binaries with MS components observed by $Kepler$. All six targets turned out almost in thermal contact with contact or slightly overcontact configurations. Two of them, KID…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Diana Kjurkchieva , Dinko Dimitrov

We apply machine learning techniques in an attempt to predict and classify stellar properties from noisy and sparse time series data. We preprocessed over 94 GB of Kepler light curves from MAST to classify according to ten distinct physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Trisha Hinners , Kevin Tat , Rachel Thorp

Circumbinary Planets (CBPs) can be misaligned with their host binary stars. Orbital dynamics, simulations, and recent observations of proto-planetary disks all suggest that the planet can stably orbit in a plane perpendicular to that of an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Zhanbo Zhang , Daniel C. Fabrycky

This paper contains the list of Hipparcos eclipsing binaries that fulfill the following conditions: the star is classified in the Hipparcos Catalogue as EA-type eclipsing binary and its parallax is either larger than 5 mas or it is five…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kruszewski , I. Semeniuk