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(Abridged) 2007 TY430 is the first wide, equal-sized, binary known in the 3:2 mean motion resonance with Neptune. The binary has a maximum separation of 1 arcsec with less than 0.1 mags difference between components with identical ultra-red…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Scott S. Sheppard , Darin Ragozzine , Chadwick Trujillo

Building on previous work, a new search of the SuperWASP archive was carried out to identify eclipsing binary systems near the short-period limit. 143 candidate objects were detected with orbital periods between 16000 and 20000 s, of which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. E. Lohr , A. J. Norton , U. C. Kolb , P. F. L. Maxted , I. Todd , R. G. West

The black hole candidate 1E 1740.7-2942 is one of the strongest hard X-ray sources in the Galactic Center region. No counterparts in longer wavelengths have been identified for this object yet. The presence of characteristic timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 Paulo Eduardo Stecchini , Manuel Castro , Francisco Jablonski , Flavio D'Amico , João Braga

A new relative orbit solution with new dynamical masses is determined for the nearby white dwarf - red dwarf pair 40 Eri BC. The period is 230.09+/-0.68y. It is predicted to close slowly over the next half-century getting as close as 1.32"…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Korie N. Miles

XTE J1710-281 is a transient eclipsing binary system with a period close to 3.28 hours, hosting a neutron star. The average eclipse duration is 420 seconds, and eclipse arrival times reported in the literature span from 1999 to 2017. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-19 R. Iaria , T. Di Salvo , A. Anitra , C. Miceli , W. Leone , C. Maraventano , F. Barra , A. Riggio , A. Sanna , A. Manca , L. Burderi

Observations of the 297 s X-ray pulsar 1E1145.1-6141 with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer have revealed its 14.4 d eccentric orbit around its B supergiant companion. The best-fit orbital elements are: P_orb = 14.365(2) d, a_x sin i=99.4(18)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. S. Ray , D. Chakrabarty

A photometric and spectroscopic investigation is performed on five W Ursae Majoris eclipsing binaries (EWs) J015818.6+260247 (hereinafter as J0158b), J073248.4+405538 (hereinafter as J0732), J101330.8+494846 (hereinafter as J1013),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Alaxender Panchal , Yogesh C. Joshi , Peter De Cat , Sugriva Nath Tiwari

Eclipse time variations have been detected in a number of post common envelope binary systems consisting of a subdwarf B star or white dwarf primary star and cool M type or brown dwarf secondary. In this paper we consider circumbinary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-04 George Faillace , David Pulley , Americo Watkins , John Mallett , Ian Sharp , Xinyu Mai

We have discovered that the detached double degenerate binary WD 0957-666 has an orbital period of 1.46 hours, rather than the 1.15 day orbital period reported earlier. This is the shortest period example of such a system yet discovered. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. Moran , T. R. Marsh , A. Bragaglia

We have imaged seventeen recently discovered Sirius-like binary systems with HST/WFPC2 and resolved the white dwarf secondary in eight cases. Most of the implied orbital periods are of order several hundred years, but in three cases (56…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matt Burleigh , Martin Barstow , Howard E. Bond , Jay Holberg

Aims: We present a new updated study of the unique quintuple system of two eclipsing binaries, V994 Her. Methods: Based on new obtained photometric observations, we analysed the period variations of the two eclipsing pairs of V994 Her.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 P. Zasche , R. Uhlar

We report the discovery and the results of follow-up timing observations of PSR J2045+3633 and PSR J2053+4650, two binary pulsars found in the Northern High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey being carried out with the Effelsberg radio…

In a recent study, Lee et al. presented new photometric follow-up timing observations of the semi-detached binary system SZ Herculis and proposed the existence of two hierarchical cirumbinary companions. Based on the light-travel time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. C. Hinse , K. Gozdziewski , J. W. Lee , N. Haghighipour , C. -U. Lee

The transient event labeled as TCP J05074264+2447555 recently discovered towards the Taurus region was quickly recognized to be an ongoing microlensing event on a source located at distance of only $700-800$ pc from Earth. Here, we show…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 A. A. Nucita , D. Licchelli , F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , F. Strafella , N. Katysheva , S. Shugarov

We present the discovery of OB type absorption lines superimposed to the emission line spectrum, and the first double-lined orbital elements for the massive Wolf-Rayet binary HDE 318016 (=WR 98), a spectroscopic binary in a circular orbit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto C. Gamen , Virpi S. Niemela

We analyze a vast light curve database by obtaining mean rotational properties of the entire sample, determining the spin frequency distribution and comparing those data with a simple model based on hydrostatic equilibrium. For the rotation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 R. Duffard , J. L. Ortiz , A. Thirouin , P. Santos-Sanz , N. Morales

We present new analysis of HST images of (47171) 1999 TC36 that confirm it as a triple system. Fits to the point-spread function consistently show that the apparent primary is itself composed of two similar-sized components. The two central…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. D. Benecchi , K. S. Noll , W. M. Grundy , H. F. Levison