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As part of a larger program aimed at better quantifying the uncertainties in stellar computations, we attempt to calibrate the extent of convective overshooting in low to intermediate mass stars by means of eclipsing binary systems. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-11 Richard J. Stancliffe , Luca Fossati , Jean-Claude Passy , Fabian R. N. Schneider

Overshooting from the convective cores of stars more massive than about 1.2 M(Sun) has a profound impact on their subsequent evolution. And yet, the formulation of the overshooting mechanism in current stellar evolution models has a free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Antonio Claret , Guillermo Torres

Many current stellar evolution models assume some dependence of the strength of convective core overshooting on mass for stars more massive than 1.1-1.2 solar masses, but the adopted shapes for that relation have remained somewhat arbitrary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Antonio Claret , Guillermo Torres

In a robust statistical way, we quantify the uncertainty that affects the calibration of the overshooting efficiency parameter $\beta$ that is owing to the uncertainty on the observational data in double-lined eclipsing binary systems. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , P. G. Prada Moroni , S. Degl'Innocenti

Convective core overshooting extends the main-sequence lifetime of a star. Evolutionary tracks computed with overshooting are quite different from those that use the classical Schwarzschild criterion, which leads to rather different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Antonio Claret , Guillermo Torres

Convective core overshooting has a strong influence on the evolution of stars of moderate and high mass. Studies of double-lined eclipsing binaries and stellar oscillations have renewed interest in the possible dependence of overshooting on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Antonio Claret , Guillermo Torres

Accurate determinations of masses and radii in binary stars, along with estimates of the effective temperatures, metallicities, and other properties, have long been used to test models of stellar evolution. As might be expected,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Guillermo Torres

Stellar fundamental properties (masses, radii, effective temperatures) can be extracted from observations of eclipsing binary systems with remarkable precision, often better than 2%. Such precise measurements afford us the opportunity to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Gregory A. Feiden

The detached eclipsing binary stars with convective cores provide a good tool to investigate the convective core overshoot. It has been performed on some binary stars to restrict the classical overshoot model which simply extends the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Y. Meng , Q. S. Zhang

(Abridged) Eclipsing, spectroscopic double-lined binary star systems (SB2) are excellent laboratories for calibrating theories of stellar interior structure and evolution. We aim to investigate the mass discrepancy in binary stars. We study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 A. Tkachenko , K. Pavlovski , C. Johnston , M. G. Pedersen , M. Michielsen , D. M. Bowman , J. Southworth , V. Tsymbal , C. Aerts

The mass discrepancy problem, observed in high-mass stars within eclipsing binaries, highlights systematic differences between dynamical and evolutionary mass estimates, challenging the accuracy of stellar evolution models. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Nadya Serebriakova , Andrew Tkachenko , Cole Johnston , Krešimir Pavlovski , Conny Aerts

Core overshoot is a large source of uncertainty in constructing stellar models. Whether the amount of overshoot is constant or mass dependent is not completely known, even though models sometimes assume a mass-based trend. In this work we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Lucas S. Viani , Sarbani Basu

Although the dependence of convective core overshooting on mass has attracted much attention, no corresponding work exists for overshooting below a convective envelope. We aim to quantify this relationship for pre-main sequence stars of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 J. Pratt , I. Baraffe , M. -G. Dethero , M. Stuck , D. G. Vlaykov , T. Goffrey

Full tests to stellar models below 1 Msun have been hindered until now by the scarce number of precise measurements of the stars' most fundamental parameters: their masses and radii. With the current observational techniques, the required…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mercedes Lopez-Morales , J. Scott Shaw

Abridged. Eclipsing spectroscopic double-lined binaries are the prime source of precise and accurate measurements of masses and radii of stars. These measurements provide a stringent test of models of stellar evolution that are persistently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 A. Tkachenko , K. Pavlovski , N. Serebriakova , D. M. Bowman , L. IJspeert , S. Gebruers , J. Southworth

Eclipsing binary star systems provide the most accurate method of measuring both the masses and radii of stars. Moreover, they enable testing tidal synchronization and circularization theories, as well as constraining models of stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-04 Jonathan Devor

The fundamental properties of detached eclipsing binary stars can be measured very accurately, which could make them important objects for constraining the treatment of convection in theoretical stellar models. However, only four or five…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 John Southworth , Hans Bruntt

High-precision stellar mass and radius measured directly from binaries can effectively calibrate the stellar models. However, such a database containing full spectral types and large range of metallicity is still not fully established. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jianping Xiong , Chao Liu , Jiao Li , Jiadong Li , Bo Zhang , Xiaodian Chen , Changqing Luo , Zihuang Cao , Yongheng Zhao

Evidence from the analysis of eclipsing binary systems revealed that late-type stars are larger and cooler than predicted by models, and that this is probably caused by stellar magnetic activity. In this work, we revisit this problem taking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 J. C. Morales , I. Ribas , Á. Giménez , D. Baroch

Eclipsing binary stars provide highly accurate measurements of the fundamental physical properties of stars. They therefore serve as stringent tests of the predictions of evolutionary models upon which most stellar age determinations are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-17 Keivan G. Stassun , Leslie Hebb , Mercedes Lopez-Morales , Andrej Prsa
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