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Heartbeat stars are a subclass of binary stars with short periods, high eccentricities, and phase-folded light curves that resemble an electrocardiogram. We start from the $\textit{Gaia}$ catalogs of spectroscopic binaries and use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Jowen Callahan , D. M. Rowan , C. S. Kochanek , K. Z. Stanek

Heartbeat stars are eccentric binary stars in short period orbits whose light curves are shaped by tidal distortion, reflection, and Doppler beaming. Some heartbeat stars exhibit tidally excited oscillations and present new opportunities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Jim Fuller

Heartbeat stars (HB stars) are a class of eccentric binary stars with close periastron passages. The characteristic photometric HB signal evident in their light curves is produced by a combination of tidal distortion, heating, and Doppler…

Heartbeat stars (HBSs) are ideal astrophysical laboratories to study the formation and evolution of binary stars in eccentric orbits and the internal structural changes of their components under strong tidal action. We discover 23 new HBSs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Min-Yu Li , Sheng-Bang Qian , Ai-Ying Zhou , Li-Ying Zhu , Wen-Ping Liao , Er-Gang Zhao , Xiang-Dong Shi , Fu-Xing Li , Qi-Bin Sun

Heartbeat stars are eccentric binaries exhibiting characteristic shape of brightness changes during periastron passage caused by tidal distortion of the components. Variable tidal potential can drive tidally excited oscillations (TEOs),…

In this paper we present a spectroscopic study of six double-lined binaries, five of which were recently discovered in a high-resolution spectroscopic survey of optical counterparts of stellar X-ray sources. Thanks to high-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-08 A. Frasca , G. Catanzaro , I. Busà , P. Guillout , J. Alonso-Santiago , C. Ferrara , M. Giarrusso , M. Munari , F. Leone

In a well-aimed search based on the recently published Gaia~DR2 radial velocity data and performed with the robotic TIGRE telescope, we have discovered 19 bright ($m_V<7.66$~mag) spectroscopic binary stars. We present the radial velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Dennis Jack , Missael Alejandro Hernández Huerta , Klaus-Peter Schröder

We present 2271 radial velocity measurements taken on 118 single-line binary stars, taken over eight years with the CORALIE spectrograph. The binaries consist of F/G/K primaries and M-dwarf secondaries. They were initially discovered…

Heartbeat stars (HBSs) are ideal laboratories for studying the formation and evolution of binary stars in eccentric orbits and their mutual tidal interactions. We present 42 new HBSs discovered based on TESS-SPOC and QLP data. Their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Min-Yu Li , Sheng-Bang Qian , Ai-Ying Zhou , Li-Ying Zhu , Wen-Ping Liao , Lin-Feng Chang , Xiang-Dong Shi , Fu-Xing Li , Qi-Bin Sun , Ping Li

The orbital parameters of binaries at intermediate periods ($10^2$--$10^3$ d) are difficult to measure with conventional methods and are very incomplete. We have undertaken a new survey, applying our pulsation timing method to {\it Kepler}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Simon J. Murphy , Maxwell Moe , Donald W. Kurtz , Timothy R. Bedding , Hiromoto Shibahashi , Henri M. J. Boffin

The unparalleled photometric data obtained by NASA's Kepler space telescope led to an improved understanding of red giant stars and binary stars. Seismology allows us to constrain the properties of red giants. In addition to eclipsing…

We report the discovery of 24 spectroscopic binary companions to giant stars. We fully constrain the orbital solution for 6 of these systems. We cannot unambiguously derive the orbital elements for the remaining stars because the phase…

The eccentricity, periastron angle, orbital inclination, mass ratio, stellar temperatures and relative stellar radii of 12 eclipsing eccentric binaries were determined on the basis of Kepler data. The analysis of their out-of-eclipse…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Diana Kjurkchieva , Doroteya Vasileva , Dinko Dimitrov

Continuous and precise space-based photometry has made it possible to measure the orbital frequency modulation of pulsating stars in binary systems with extremely high precision over long time spans. Frequency modulation caused by binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Hiromoto Shibahashi , Donald W. Kurtz , Simon J. Murphy

Eccentric binaries known as heartbeat stars experience strong dynamical tides as the stars pass through periastron, providing a laboratory to study tidal interactions. We measure the rotation periods of 24 heartbeat systems, using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Mara Zimmerman , Susan Thompson , Fergal Mullally , Jim Fuller , Avi Shporer , Kelly Hambleton

Tidal forces in eccentric binary stars known as heartbeat stars excite detectable oscillations that shed light on the processes of tidal synchronization and circularization. We examine the pulsation phases of tidally excited oscillations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Zhao Guo , Avi Shporer , Kelly Hambleton , Howard Isaacson

More than 340 non-eclipsing binaries of A-F stars as primaries at intermediate periods (100-1000 d) were newly found by uninterrupted photometry with ultra high-precision taken over 4 yr by Kepler space mission via the phase modulation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-18 Hiromoto Shibahashi , Simon J. Murphy

We identify $240$ short-period ($P \lesssim 10$ days) binary systems in the TESS data, $180$ of which are heartbeat binaries (HB). The sample is mostly a mix of A and B-type stars and primarily includes eclipsing systems, where over $30\%$…

Some pulsating stars are good clocks. When they are found in binary stars, the frequencies of their luminosity variations are modulated by the Doppler effect caused by orbital motion. For each pulsation frequency this manifests itself as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Hiromoto Shibahashi , Donald W. Kurtz

We present a detailed analysis of five bright spectroscopic binary systems (HD 18665, HD 27131, HD 171852, HD 215550, HD 217427) that have orbital periods of P < 500 days. We determined the complete set of orbital parameters using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-13 Dennis Jack , Missael Alejandro Hernández Huerta , Faiber Danilo Rosas-Portilla , Klaus-Peter Schröder
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