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The study of eclipsing binaries is our primary source of measured properties of normal stars, achieved through analysis of light and radial velocity curves of eclipsing systems. The study of oscillations and pulsations is increasingly vital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-14 John Southworth

Transiting extrasolar planets are extraordinarily valuable for understanding the characteristics and formation of planets, because they are the only exoplanets whose physical and orbital properties can be measured to high precision.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 John Southworth

Precise and accurate mass and radius measurements of evolved stars are crucial to calibrating stellar models. Stars in detached eclipsing binaries (EBs) are excellent potential calibrators because their stellar parameters can be measured…

Detached eclipsing binaries are very useful objects for calibrating theoretical stellar models and checking their predictions. Detached eclipsing binaries in open clusters are particularly important because of the additional constraints on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 John Southworth

Detached eclipsing binary stars (dEBs) are a key source of data on fundamental stellar parameters. While there is a vast source of candidate systems in the light curve databases of survey missions such as Kepler and TESS, published…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Stephen Overall , John Southworth

Individual components of well-detached binary systems are assumed to be two single-like stars with a common origin, i.e. they share the same chemical composition and same age. Therefore, one expects to fit the observed parameters of both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Lastennet , J. Fernandes , E. Oblak , D. Valls-Gabaud

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

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

The most accurate stellar astrophysical parameters were collected from the solutions of the light and the radial velocity curves of 257 detached double-lined eclipsing binaries in the Milky Way. The catalogue contains masses, radii, surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Z. Eker , S. Bilir , F. Soydugan , E. Yaz Gokce , E. Soydugan , M. Tuysuz , T. Senyuz , O. Demircan

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

Russell (1948) famously described eclipses as the "royal road" to stellar astrophysics. From photometric and spectroscopic observations it is possible to measure the masses and radii (to 1% or better!), and thus surface gravities and mean…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-09 John Southworth

The derived physical properties of the known transiting extrasolar planetary systems come from a variety of sources, and are calculated using a range of different methods so are not always directly comparable. I present a catalogue of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-16 John Southworth

We would like to investigate the information contained in our observations and to what extent each of them contributes individually to constraining the physical parameters of the system we are investigating. To do this, we present a study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. L Creevey , T. M. Brown , S. Jiménez-Reyes , J. A. Belmonte

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

We present the latest results of our spectroscopic observations and refined modelling of a sample of detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs), selected from the $Kepler$} Eclipsing Binary Catalog, that are also double-lined spectroscopic binaries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-03 K. G. Hełminiak , M. Konacki , H. Maehara , E. Kambe , N. Ukita , M. Ratajczak , A. Pigulski , S. K. Kozłowski

We undertook a long term project, DIRECT, to obtain the direct distances to two important galaxies in the cosmological distance ladder -- M31 and M33, using detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) and Cepheids. While rare and difficult to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Kaluzny , K. Z. Stanek , M. Krockenberger , D. D. Sasselov , J. L. Tonry , M. Mateo

We present the results of our spectroscopic observations of eight detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs), selected from the $Kepler$ Eclipsing Binary Catalog. Radial velocities (RVs) were calculated from high resolution spectra obtained with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 K. G. Hełminiak , N. Ukita , E. Kambe , S. K. Kozłowski , P. Sybilski , H. Maehara , M. Konacki , R. K. Pawłaszek

The accuracy of stellar masses and radii determined from asteroseismology is not known! We examine this issue for giant stars by comparing classical measurements of detached eclipsing binary systems (dEBs) with asteroseismic measurements…