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Eclipse timing variations (ETV) have been a successful tool for detecting circumbinary companions to eclipsing binaries (EB). While TESS and Kepler have been prolific for ETV searches, they sometimes can be limited by time and sky coverage…

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

The orbital periods of most eclipsing cataclysmic binaries are not undergoing linear secular decreases of order a few parts per billion as expected from simple theory. Instead, they show several parts per million increases and decreases on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Michael M. Shara , Steve B. Howell , Elise Furlan , Crystal L. Gnilka , Anthony F. J. Moffat , Nicholas J. Scott , David Zurek

In a recent study, Armstrong et al. presented an eclipsing binary star of about 6.2 h period with transit-like tertiary signals occurring every 204.2 d in the {\it Kepler} public data of KIC002856960 and proposed three possible hierarchical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jae Woo Lee , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Byeong-Cheol Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Tobias Cornelius Hinse

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

This study examines the period variation of the eclipsing binary system KR Cyg, a near-contact binary characterized by its short orbital period and significant stellar interactions. The precise orbital parameters of the system have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Mehmet Geldi , Kübra Çalışkan , Esin Sipahi

[ABRIDGED] Since the discovery of the first transiting extrasolar planet, transit timing has been recognized as a powerful method to discover and characterize additional planets in these systems. However, the gravitational influence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Montalto

This study aims timing the eclipses of the short period low mass binary star AB And. The times of minima are taken from the literature and from our observations in October 2013 (22 times of minima) and in August 2014 (23 times of minima).…

The period changes of contact binaries obtained by the analysis of eclipse minima timing are found mostly chaotic in nature. However, they are representable by a few cyclic changes superposed on a secular change. The cyclic changes are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 O. Demircan , İ Bulut

We present higher-order multiplicity results for 60 solar-type spectroscopic binaries based on 0.75 micron imaging data taken by the Robotic Adaptive Optics system (Robo-AO) at the Kitt Peak 2.1m telescope. Our contrast curves show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Emily Laos , Keivan G. Stassun , Robert D. Mathieu

This paper reviews the rich corpus of observational evidence for tidal effects in short-period binaries. We review the evidence for ellipsoidal variability and for the observational manifestation of apsidal motion in eclipsing binaries.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tsevi Mazeh

The new B and V photoelectric observations of the beta Lyrae eclipsing binary DO Cas were obtained on 6 nights form December 2000 to January 2001. The observations were made at the Biruni Observatory, Shiraz, Iran and the light curves are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-28 Shahin Jafarzadeh

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

Inspired by the discovery of the red nova V1309 Sco (Nova Scorpii 2008) and the fact that its progenitor was a binary system with a rapidly decreasing orbital period, we have searched for period changes in OGLE binary stars. We have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 P. Pietrukowicz , I. Soszynski , A. Udalski , M. K. Szymanski , L. Wyrzykowski , R. Poleski , S. Kozlowski , J. Skowron , P. Mroz , M. Pawlak , K. Ulaczyk

We re-analyze the pristine eclipsing binary data from the $\textit{Kepler}$ and TESS missions, focusing on eccentricity measurements at short orbital periods to emperically constrain tidal circularization. We find an average circularization…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 J. J. Zanazzi

This study presents photometric solutions for a carefully selected sample of 181 detached eclipsing binary systems recently observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. Our findings contribute to discussions about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-02 L. Siqueira , B. W. Freitas , D. B. de Freitas

Aims: Detect tertiary components of close binaries from spectroscopy and light curve modelling; investigate light-travel time effect and the possibility of magnetic activity cycles; measure mass-ratios for unstudied systems and derive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Szalai , L. L. Kiss , Sz. Meszaros , J. Vinko , Sz. Csizmadia

This study aims at timing the eclipses of the binary star TU UMi. The times of minima are taken from the literature, from our observations in April 2004 and from TESS observations between 2019 and 2022. The orbital period analysis of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Dicle Zengin Çamurdan , Burcu Özkardeş

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

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