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We have analysed publicly available MACHO observations of 6833 variable stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, classified as eclipsing binaries. After finding that a significant fraction of the sample was misclassified, we redetermined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Derekas , L. L. Kiss , T. R. Bedding

The stellar mass-luminosity relation is poorly constrained by observations for high mass stars. We describe our program to find eclipsing massive binaries in the Magellanic Clouds using photometry of regions rich in massive stars, and our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Philip Massey , Nidia I. Morrell , Kathryn F. Neugent , Laura R. Penny , Kathleen-DeGioia Eastwood , Douglas R. Gies

The detection of O- and B-type stars with extremely low-mass companions is very important for understanding the formation and evolution of binary stars. However, their finding remains a challenge because the low-mass components in such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Linfeng Chang , Shengbang Qian , Lei Zang , Fuxing Li

The ages of the components in very short period pre-main sequence (PMS) binaries are essential to an understanding of their formation. We considered a sample of 7 PMS eclipsing binaries (EBs) with ages 1 to 6.3 MY and component masses 0.2…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 M. Simon , J. Toraskar

With 16-month Kepler data, 14 long-period (40 d - 265 d) eclipsing binaries on highly eccentric orbits (minimum e between 0.5 and 0.85) are recognized from their closely separated primary and secondary eclipses (\Delta t_I,II = 3 d - 10 d).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-27 Subo Dong , Boaz Katz , Aristotle Socrates

Numerous EWs were discovered by several deep photometric survey and there are about 40785 EW-type binary systems listed in the international variable star index (VSX) by March 13, 2017. 7938 of them were observed by LAMOST by November 30,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 S. -B. Qian , J. -J. He , J. Zhang , L. -Y. Zhu , X. -D. Shi , E. -G. Zhao , X. Zhou

We present the first results of an observational programme to measure the fundamental parameters of over 100 eclipsing binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The spectroscopic data were obtained by using the 2dF multi-object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tim J. Harries , Ron W. Hilditch , Ian D. Howarth

Massive stars are usually found in binaries, and binaries with periods less than 10 days may have a preference for near equal component masses. In this paper we investigate the evolution of these binaries all the way to contact and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-08 Jason A. Hwang , James C. Lombardi , Frederic A. Rasio , Vassiliki Kalogera

We present a complete set of physical parameters for three early-type eclipsing binary systems in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC): OGLE LMC-ECL-17660, OGLE LMC-ECL-18794, and HV 2274, together with the orbital solutions. The first and…

We have conducted a programme to determine the fundamental parameters of a substantial number of eclipsing binaries of spectral types O and B in the Small Magellanic Cloud. New spectroscopic data, obtained with the two-degree-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 R. W. Hilditch , I. D. Howarth , T. J. Harries

Extreme eclipsing binaries may harbor peculiar physical properties. In this work, we aim to identify a sample of such systems by selecting binaries with pronounced eclipsing light curves, characterized of large variability ($\Delta…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Jiangxinxin Zhuang , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Wei-Min Gu , Senyu Qi

Common-envelope evolution (CEE) is among the most uncertain phases in binary evolution. To empirically constrain CEE, we construct a uniformly selected sample of eclipsing post--common-envelope binaries (PCEBs). Starting from an unresolved…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Cheyanne Shariat , Kareem El-Badry

Eclipsing binaries (EBs) play an important astrophysical role in studying stellar properties and evolution. By analyzing photometric data in the LAMOST Medium-Resolution Survey field, RA: $23^h$$01^m$$51.00^s$, Dec:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Jing-Yi Wang , Kai Li , Xiang Gao , Di-Fu Guo , Li-Heng Wang , Dong-Yang Gao , Ling-Zhi Li , Ya-Ni Guo , Xing Gao , Guo-You Sun

We examine the performance of standard PMS stellar evolution models against the accurately measured properties of a benchmark sample of 26 PMS stars in 13 EB systems. We provide a definitive compilation of all fundamental properties for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Keivan G. Stassun , Gregory A. Feiden , Guillermo Torres

The basic properties of the candidate binary cluster population in the Magellanic Clouds and Galaxy are similar. The fraction of candidate binary systems is $\sim$10% and the pair separation histogram exhibits a bimodal distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-05-28 Raúl de la Fuente Marcos , Carlos de la Fuente Marcos

We present a homogeneously-selected sample of 15779 candidate binary systems with main sequence primary stars and orbital periods shorter than 5 days. The targets were selected from TESS full-frame image lightcurves on the basis of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-03 Matthew J. Green , Dan Maoz , Tsevi Mazeh , Simchon Faigler , Sahar Shahaf , Roy Gomel , Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix

Eclipsing binary stars provide highly accurate measurements of the fundamental physical properties of stars. They therefore serve as stringent tests of the predictions of evolutionary models upon which most stellar age determinations are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-17 Keivan G. Stassun , Leslie Hebb , Mercedes Lopez-Morales , Andrej Prsa

Eclipsing binaries (EBs) provide critical laboratories for empirically testing predictions of theoretical models of stellar structure and evolution. Pre-main-sequence (PMS) EBs are particularly valuable, both due to their rarity and the…

This work provides a statistical analysis of the massive star binary characteristics in the Cygnus OB2 Association using radial velocity information of 114 B3-O3 primary stars and orbital properties for the 24 known binaries. We compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel C. Kiminki , Henry A. Kobulnicky

We present a new Bayesian approach to constrain the intrinsic parameters (stellar mass, age) of the eclipsing binary system CEP0227 in the LMC. We computed evolutionary models covering a broad range in chemical compositions and in stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 P. G. Prada Moroni , M. Gennaro , G. Bono , G. Pietrzynski , W. Gieren , B. Pilecki , D. Graczyk , I. B. Thompson , .