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Four eclipsing binaries, which show apparent changes of period, have been studied with respect to a possible presence of the light time effect. With a least squares method we calculated new light elements of these systems, the mass function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Petr Zasche

The orbital period evolution of X-ray binaries provides fundamental clues to understanding mechanisms of angular momentum loss from these systems. We present an X-ray eclipse timing analysis of the transient low mass X-ray binary AX…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 G. Ponti , K. De , T. Munoz-Darias , L. Stella , K. Nandra

Eclipse time variations have been detected in a number of post common envelope binary systems consisting of a subdwarf B star or white dwarf primary star and cool M type or brown dwarf secondary. In this paper we consider circumbinary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-04 George Faillace , David Pulley , Americo Watkins , John Mallett , Ian Sharp , Xinyu Mai

Main aim of this paper is the first light curve and apsidal motion analysis of thirteen eccentric eclipsing binaries and to reveal their basic physical properties. All of the systems were studied by method of period analysis of times of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-26 P. Zasche

CCD photometric observations of the Algol-type eclipsing binary AT Peg have been obtained. The light curves are analyzed with modern techniques and new geometric and photometric elements are derived. A new orbital period analysis of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alexios Liakos , Panagiotis Niarchos , Edwin Budding

We present the new results of our long-term observational project to detect the small variations in the orbital periods of low-mass and short-period eclipsing binaries. About 120 new precise mid-eclipse times were obtained for three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 M. Wolf , H. Kučáková , P. Zasche , K. Hornoch , J. Kára , J. Merc , M. Zejda

We investigate the improved detection of extrasolar planets around eclipsing binaries using eclipse minima timing, and extrasolar moons around transiting planets using transit timing, offered by the upcoming COROT (ESA, 2005), Kepler (NASA,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. R. Doyle , H. J. Deeg

Analyzing the available photometry from the Kepler satellite and other databases, we performed detailed light curve modeling of 10 eclipsing binary systems that were found to exhibit a periodic modulation of their orbital periods. All of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Zasche , M. Wolf , H. Kucakova , J. Vrastil , J. Jurysek , M. Masek , M. Jelinek

Time-series, multi-color photometry and high-resolution spectra of the short period eclipsing binary V Tri were obtained by observations. The completely covered light and radial velocity curves of the binary system are presented. All times…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 A. B. Ren , X. B. Zhang , J. N. Fu , Y. P. Zhang , T. Q. Cang , L. Fox-Machado , C. Q. Li , P. Khokhuntod , Y. P. Luo

We present a catalog of 1292 low-mass (M&M) short-period eclipsing binaries observed by the TESS mission. Eclipsing binaries are useful for many aspects of stellar astrophysics, including calibrating stellar models, and catalogs of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Dominic Oddo , Diana Dragomir , Brian P. Powell , Veselin B. Kostov , Te Han

The sequence of eclipses of binary stars is subject to inequalities for various reasons. The presence of a third component in the system causes periodic motion of the binary's center of mass along the line of sight of an observer. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 David Vokrouhlický

We present new multiband CCD photometry for AA UMa made on 8 nights between January and March 2009; the $R$ light curves are the first ever compiled. Historical light curves, as well as ours, display partial eclipses and inverse O'Connell…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jae Woo Lee , Chung-Uk Lee , Seung-Lee Kim , Ho-Il Kim , Jang-Ho Park

In-depth analysis of eclipsing binary (EB) observational data collected for several decades can inform us about a lot of astrophysically interesting processes taking place in the systems. We have developed a wide-ranging method for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Zdeněk Mikulášek , Miloslav Zejda , Marek Chrastina , ShengBang Qian , LiYing Zhu

For the eclipsing binary system CM Draconis, eclipse minimum times have been monitored with high precision between 1994 and 1999. Periodic deviations of minimum times from a linear ephemeris may indicate the presence of an orbiting third…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Deeg , L. R. Doyle , V. P. Kozhevnikov , J. E. Blue , E. L. Martin , J. Schneider

The existence of an additional body around a binary system can be detected by the help of the light-travel time effect. Due to the motions of binary and the companion stars around the common mass center of the ternary system, the light-time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-27 Dogus Ozuyar , Asli Elmasli , Seyma Caliskan

AN Cam is a little-studied eclipsing binary containing somewhat evolved components in an orbit with a period of 21.0 d and an eccentricity of 0.47. A spectroscopic orbit based on photoelectric radial velocities was published in 1977. AN Cam…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-08 John Southworth

Close, compact, hierarchical, multiple stellar systems, i.e., multiples having an outer orbital period from months to a few years, comprise a small, but continuously growing group of the triple and multiple star zoo. Many of them consist of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Tamás Borkovits

We report 90 new observations of three post common envelope binaries at primary eclipse spanning between December 2018 to February 2022. We combine recent primary eclipse timing observations with previously published values to search for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Xinyu Mai , Robert L. Mutel

Few observational constraints exist for the tidal synchronization rate of late-type stars, despite its fundamental role in binary evolution. We visually inspected the light curves of 2278 eclipsing binaries (EBs) from the Kepler Eclipsing…

HS Hydrae is a short period eclipsing binary (P_orb=1.57 day) that belongs to a rare group of systems observed to have rapidly changing inclinations. This evolution is due to a third star on an intermediate orbit, and results in significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 James R. A. Davenport , Diana Windemuth , Karen Warmbein , Erin L. Howard , Courtney Klein , Jessica Birky