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Eclipsing binaries serve as a valuable source of stellar masses and radii that inform stellar evolutionary models and provide insight into additional astrophysical processes. The exquisite light curves generated by space-based missions such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Rachel A. Matson , Douglas R. Gies , Zhao Guo , Jerome A. Orosz

Many of the Kepler close binaries are suggested to constitute hierarchical triple systems through their eclipse timing variations (ETVs). Eclipses by the third body in those systems, if observed, provide precise constraints on its physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-25 Kento Masuda , Sho Uehara , Hajime Kawahara

The nearby (50 pc) K7V dwarf HIP~41431 (EPIC 212096658) is a compact 3-tier hierarchy. Three K7V stars with similar masses, from 0.61 to 0.63 solar, make a triple-lined spectroscopic system where the inner binary with a period of 2.9 days…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 T. Borkovits , J. Sperauskas , A. Tokovinin , D. W. Latham , I. Csányi , T. Hajdu , L. Molnár

The present work contains light curve, spectroscopic and asteroseismic analyses for KIC 04851217 and KIC 10686876. These systems are detached eclipsing binaries hosting a pulsating component of delta Scuti type and have been observed with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Alexios Liakos

The Kepler spacecraft has been monitoring the light from 150,000 stars in its primary quest to detect transiting exoplanets. Here we report on the detection of an eclipsing stellar hierarchical triple, identified in the Kepler photometry.…

KIC 9532219 is a W UMa-type eclipsing binary with an orbital period of 0.1981549 d that is below the short-period limit ($\sim$0.22 d) of the period distribution for contact binaries. The {\it Kepler} light curve of the system exhibits…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jae Woo Lee , Kyeongsoo Hong , Jae-Rim Koo , Jang-Ho Park

The short-period (P $\approx1.7$ d), Algol-type eclipsing binary KIC 7385478 consists of an F-type primary star ($M_1 \approx 1.71M_{\odot}$) and an evolved K-type secondary ($M_2 \approx 0.37M_{\odot}$) (Ozdarcan \& Ali Dal 2017). We study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-18 Zhao Guo , Gang Li

KIC 10661783 is an eclipsing binary that shows Delta Sct-like oscillations. More than 60 pulsation frequencies have been detected in its light curve as observed by the Kepler satellite. We want to determine the fundamental stellar and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-20 H. Lehmann , J. Southworth , A. Tkachenko , K. Pavlovski

The high precision data obtained by the {\it Kepler} satellite allows us to detect hybrid type pulsator candidates more accurately than the data obtained by ground-based observations. In this study, we present preliminary results on the new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 C. Ulusoy , I. Stateva , I. Kh. Iliev , B. Ulaş , M. Napetova

KIC 7341653 is one of several late-type M dwarfs observed in the main mission of Kepler with peculiar infrared colors placing them in the domain of suspected young stellar objects (YSO). It is likely associated with a powerful X-ray emitter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Valeri V. Makarov , Alexey Goldin

KIC 5773205 is the least luminous eclipsing M dwarf found in the Villanova catalog of eclipsing binaries detected by the {\it Kepler} mission. We processed and analyzed the three available quarters of mission data for this star and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-03 Valeri V. Makarov , Alexey Goldin

We present a detailed analysis of surface inhomogeneities on the K1-type sub-giant component of the rapidly rotating eclipsing binary KIC 11560447, using high-precision Kepler light curves spanning nearly four years, corresponding to about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-18 İbrahim Özavci , Hakan V. Şenavci , Emre Işik , Gaitee A. J. Hussain , Douglas O'Neal , Mesut Yilmaz , Selim O. Selam

In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of the light variation of KIC 5623923 using high-precision time-series data from the $Kepler$ mission. The analysis reveals this target is an eclipsing binary system with $\delta$ Scuti type…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Tao-Zhi Yang , Zhao-Yu Zuo , Shi-ping Guo , Xu Ding , Hao-zhi Wang , Shahidin Yaqup , Ali Esamdin

Abstract We investigate a short-period W UMa binary KIC 9026766 with an orbital period of 0.2721278 days in the Kepler field of view. By using an automated q-search for the folded light curve and producing a synthetic light curve for this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Somaye Soomandar , Abbas Abedi

The recently discovered subdwarf B (sdB) pulsator KIC11558725 features a rich g-mode frequency spectrum, with a few low-amplitude p-modes at short periods, and is a promising target for a seismic study aiming to constrain the internal…

In this paper, we report the evidence for a planetary mass body orbiting the close binary star KIC 5095269. This detection arose from a search for eclipse timing variations among the more than 2,000 eclipsing binaries observed by Kepler.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 A. K. Getley , B. Carter , R. King , S. O'Toole

We report follow-up spectroscopic observations of the 1.62 day, K-type, detached, active, near-circular, double-lined eclipsing binary EPIC 219511354 in the open cluster Ruprecht 147, identified previously on the basis of photometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Guillermo Torres , Andrew Vanderburg , Jason L. Curtis , Adam L. Kraus , Eric Gaidos

Analysing a large body of observational data, we found that HD 135160 is a quadruple 2+2 system, composed of a massive ellipsoidal binary ('heartbeat' star) with components Aa and Ab in an eccentric 8.234 d orbit and an eclipsing binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Michal Zummer , Petr Harmanec , Brad Barlow , Mark Blackford , Jana Švrčková

We present spectroscopic and photometric analysis of KIC\,9451096, where the latter is based on very high precision long cadence photometry obtained by $Kepler$ space craft. Combined spectroscopic and photometric modeling show that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Orkun Özdarcan , Ezgi Yoldaş , Hasan Ali Dal

We present both binarity and pulsation of KIC 6220497 from the {\it Kepler} observations. The light curve synthesis shows that the eclipsing system is a semi-detached Algol with parameters of $q$ = 0.243$\pm$0.001, $i$ = 77.3$\pm$0.3 deg,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Jae Woo Lee , Kyeongsoo Hong , Seung-Lee Kim , Jae-Rim Koo