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The post-main sequence eclipsing binary NN Serpentis was recently announced as the potential host of at least two massive planetary companions. In that work, the authors put forward two potential architectures that fit the observations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jonathan Horner , Robert A. Wittenmyer , Tobias C. Hinse , Chris G. Tinney

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

In this work we propose a new orbital architecture for the two proposed circumbinary planets around the polar eclipsing binary HU Aquarii. We base the new two-planet, light-travel time model on the result of a Monte Carlo simulation driving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Tobias C. Hinse , Jae Woo Lee , Krzysztof Gozdziewski , Nader Haghighipour , Chung-Uk Lee , Eamon M. Scullion

We present an analysis of eclipse timings of the post-common envelope binary NSVS 14256825, which is composed of an sdOB star and a dM star in a close orbit (P_{orb} = 0.110374 days). High-speed photometry of this system was performed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. A. Almeida , F. Jablonski , C. V. Rodrigues

With $n$-body simulations we investigate the stability of tilted circumbinary planetary systems consisting of two nonzero mass planets. The planets are initially in circular orbits that are coplanar to each other, as would be expected if…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Cheng Chen , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin , C. J. Nixon

We present 33 new mid-eclipse times spanning approximately eight years of the eclipsing polar UZ Fornacis. We have used our new observations to test the two-planet model previously proposed to explain the variations in its eclipse times…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Z. N. Khangale , S. B. Potter , E. J. Kotze , P. A. Woudt , H. Breytenbach

We report extensive spectroscopic and differential photometric BVRI observations of the active, detached, 1.309-day double-lined eclipsing binary IM Vir, composed of a G7-type primary and a K7 secondary. With these observations we derive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. C. Morales , G. Torres , L. A. Marschall , W. Brehm

In the last few years, a number of planets have been proposed to orbit several post main-sequence binary star systems on the basis of observed variations in the timing of eclipses between the binary components. A common feature of these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-28 Jonathan Horner , Robert Wittenmyer , Tobias Hinse , Jonathan Marshall , Alex Mustill

The minimum timings of eclipsing binaries V418 Aql, SU Boo, RV CVn, CR Cas, GV Cyg, V432 Per, and BD+42 2782 were collected and analyzed. Their long-term behavior was studied via period analysis, revealing a periodic term in eclipse times.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-14 P. Zasche , M. Wolf , R. Uhlar , H. Kucakova

We add 9 new observations of NY Vir and identify four others from AASVO database. Our results indicste that the one and two exo-planet predictions made by earlier authors do not match these new results.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 David Pulley , George Faillace , Derek Smith , Americo Watkins

We have performed a study of the orbital properties of seven eclipsing cataclysmic variable (CV) binary systems by analyzing photometric time series from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). We employed Python code to determine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Mennatalla Mahmoud Ellaqany , Valeria Garcia-Lopez , Emily S. Hatten , Mridul Agarwal , David A. Moffett

We present 25 new eclipse times of the white dwarf binary NN Ser taken with the high-speed camera ULTRACAM on the WHT and NTT, the RISE camera on the Liverpool Telescope, and HAWK-I on the VLT to test the two-planet model proposed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 T. R. Marsh , S. G. Parsons , M. C. P. Bours , S. P. Littlefair , C. M. Copperwheat , V. S. Dhillon , E. Breedt , C. Caceres , M. R. Schreiber

Determining the orbital eccentricity of an extrasolar planet is critically important for understanding the system's dynamical environment and history. However, eccentricity is often poorly determined or entirely mischaracterized due to poor…

Circumbinary planets and brown dwarfs form in complex gravitational environments, offering insights into formation, orbital stability, and habitability prospects. However, they remain underrepresented, with only 60 confirmed or candidate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Ekrem Murat Esmer , Tansu Daylan

We report an eclipse timing variations (ETV) study to identify close, stellar mass companions to the eclipsing binaries monitored during the photometric survey OGLE-IV. We also present an alternative automatic way to determine the first and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Tamás Hajdu , Tamás Borkovits , Emese Forgács-Dajka , János Sztakovics , Attila Bódi

Ultracompact binary systems, consisting of two compact objects in an orbit $\lesssim 0.5 R_\odot$, should exhibit measurable rates of orbital period change ($\dot{P} \neq 0$) due to the emission of gravitational waves (GWs). Measurements of…

NSVS 02502726 has been known as a double-lined, detached eclipsing binary that consists of two low-mass stars. We obtained $BVRI$ photometric follow-up observations in 2009 and 2011 to measure improved physical properties of the binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jae Woo Lee , Jae-Hyuck Youn , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee

Eclipsing, short-period post-common envelope binaries (PCEBs) have been studied for several decades by eclipse timing variations (ETVs) which have been interpreted as being caused by circumbinary bodies. In this paper we report 355 new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 D. Pulley , I. D. Sharp , J. Mallett , S. von Harrach

It has recently been proposed, on the basis of eclipse-timing data, that the eclipsing polar cataclysmic variable HU Aquarii is host to at least two giant planets. However, that result has been called into question based upon the dynamical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Robert A. Wittenmyer , J. A. Horner , J. P. Marshall , O. W. Butters , C. G. Tinney

Aims: We present a new updated study of the unique quintuple system of two eclipsing binaries, V994 Her. Methods: Based on new obtained photometric observations, we analysed the period variations of the two eclipsing pairs of V994 Her.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 P. Zasche , R. Uhlar