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Variable stars play a key role in understanding the Milky Way and the universe. The era of astronomical big data presents new challenges for quick identification of interesting and important variable stars. Accurately estimating the periods…

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Massive stars exhibit a perplexing mismatch between their inferred masses from different observational techniques, posing a significant challenge to our understanding of stellar evolution and structure. This discrepancy is believed to be…

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In this work, we propose a novel method to classify close binary stars, derived from the dynamical structure inherent in their light curves. We apply the technique to light curves of binaries from the revised Kepler Eclipsing binary…

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Recent studies have shown that stellar chromospheric activity, and its effect on convective energy transport in the envelope, is most likely the cause of significant radius and temperature discrepancies between theoretical evolution models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-28 J. Vos , J. V. Clausen , U. G. Jørgensen , R. H. Østensen , A. Claret , M. Hillen , K. Exter

Detached eclipsing binary stars (dEBs) are a key source of data on fundamental stellar parameters. Within the light curve databases of survey missions such as Kepler and TESS are a wealth of new systems awaiting characterisation. We aim to…

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AR Aur is a detached eclipsing binary containing two late-B stars which are chemically peculiar, on a circular orbit of period 4.135 d. The primary is a HgMn star which shows temporal changes in its chemical abundances and spectral line…

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Modelling ellipsoidal variables with known distances can lead to exact determination of the masses of both components, even in the absence of eclipses. We present such modelling using light and radial velocity curves of ellipsoidal red…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. P. Nicholls , P. R. Wood

An initial investigation of two poorly studied eclipsing binaries separated by ~3' in the sky is presented. The first star (GSC 2576-01248) was discovered by the TrES exoplanet search project. The second one (GSC 2576-02071) was identified…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-20 K. V. Sokolovsky , S. V. Antipin , A. V. Zharova , S. A. Korotkiy

We report eclipse timing variation analyses of 26 compact hierarchical triple stars comprised of an eccentric eclipsing ('inner') binary and a relatively close tertiary component found in the {\em Kepler} field. We simultaneously fit the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tamas Borkovits , Saul Rappaport , Tamas Hajdu , Janos Sztakovics

We have developed a procedure for the classification of eclipsing binaries from their light-curve parameters and spectral type. The procedure was tested on more than 1000 systems with known classification, and its efficiency was estimated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-09 Ekaterina Avvakumova , Oleg Malkov

We present 13 new ASAS eclipsing binaries that exhibit additional periodic variability due to pulsations, eclipses with another period or spots. All contact and semi-detached binaries from the ASAS Catalogue were investigated.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Pilecki , D. M. Szczygieł

Oscillating Algol-type eclipsing binaries (oEA) are very interesting objects that have three observational features of eclipse, pulsation, and mass transfer. Direct measurement of their masses and radii from the double-lined radial velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Jae-Rim Koo , Jae Woo Lee , Kyeongsoo Hong , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee

We present a catalog of eclipsing binaries in the northern Galactic Plane from the Kiso Wide-Field Camera Intensive Survey of the Galactic Plane (KISOGP). We visually identified 7055 eclipsing binaries spread across $\sim$330 square…

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With the prevalence of wide-field, time-domain photometric sky surveys, the number of eclipsing white dwarf systems being discovered is increasing dramatically. An efficient method to follow these up will be key to determining any…

Multiband CCD photometric observations of SZ Her were obtained between 2008 February and May. The light curve was completely covered and indicated a significant temperature difference between both components. The light-curve synthesis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jae Woo Lee , Chung-Uk Lee , Seung-Lee Kim , Ho-Il Kim , Jang-Ho Park

We present the physical properties of KIC 5621294 showing light and timing variations from the ${\it Kepler}$ photometry. Its light curve displays partial eclipses and O'Connell effect with Max II fainter than Max I, which was fitted quite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jae Woo Lee , Kyeongsoo Hong , Tobias Cornelius Hinse

Eclipsing binaries offer a unique opportunity to determine fundamental physical parameters of stars using the constraints on the geometry of the systems. Here we present a reanalysis of publicly available two-color observations of about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-09 A. Derekas , L. L. Kiss , T. R. Bedding

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

This paper selected eight totally eclipsing contact binaries for photometric and spectroscopic studies, spectral data were analyzed by ULySS, and photometric data were analyzed using PHOEBE through MCMC sampling. We used two methods to…

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