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Pulsations and binarity are both common features of massive stars. The study of pulsating massive stars in eclipsing binary systems hold great potential for constraining stellar structure and evolution theory. However, prior to the all-sky…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 John Southworth , Dominic M. Bowman

We describe a new neural-net based light curve classifier and provide it with documentation as a ready-to-use tool for the community. While optimized for identification and classification of eclipsing binary stars, the classifier is general…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Paegert , K. G. Stassun , D. M. Burger

PHOEBE (PHysics Of Eclipsing BinariEs) is a modeling package for eclipsing binary stars, built on top of the widely used WD program (Wilson & Devinney 1971). This introductory paper overviews most important scientific extensions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Prsa , T. Zwitter

Eclipsing binaries are important benchmark objects to test and calibrate stellar structure and evolution models. This is especially true for binaries with a fully convective M-dwarf component for which direct measurements of these stars'…

Large repositories of high precision light curve data, such as the Kepler data set, provide the opportunity to identify astrophysically important eclipsing binary (EB) systems in large quantities. However, the rate of classical "by eye"…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-21 Mahmoud Parvizi , Martin Paegert , Keivan G. Stassun

Eclipsing binaries (EBs) provide critical laboratories for empirically testing predictions of theoretical models of stellar structure and evolution. Pre-main-sequence (PMS) EBs are particularly valuable, both due to their rarity and the…

We present an application of computer vision methods to classify the light curves of eclipsing binaries (EB). We have used pre-trained models based on convolutional neural networks ($\textit{ResNet50}$) and vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Štefan Parimucha , Maksim Gabdeev , Yanna Markus , Martin Vaňko , Pavol Gajdoš

Several hundreds of thousands of eclipsing binaries (EBs) are expected to be detected in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) full frame images (FFIs). This represents a significant increase in the number of EBs available for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Frédéric Marcadon , Andrej Prša

High-precision and long-duration light curves from space telescopes have revolutionized the fields of asteroseismology and binary star systems. In particular, the number of pulsating systems in eclipsing binaries has drastically increased…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 John Southworth , Dominic Bowman

We present a detailed V-band photometric light curve modeling of 30 eclipsing binaries using the data from Pietrukowicz et al. (2009) collected with the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT) of diameter 8-m. The light…

The precise measurement of the masses and radii of stars in eclipsing binary systems provides a window into uncertain processes in stellar evolution, especially mixing at convective boundaries. Recently, these data have been used to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Thomas Constantino , Isabelle Baraffe

I present a brief summary of three different types of binary star - astrometric, spectroscopic and eclipsing - and tabulate the properties of these systems that can be determined directly from observations. Eclipsing binary stars are the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 John Southworth

We report on the properties of eclipsing binaries from the Kepler mission with a newly developed photometric modeling code, which uses the light curve, spectral energy distribution of each binary, and stellar evolution models to infer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Diana Windemuth , Eric Agol , Aleezah Ali , Flavien Kiefer

We present a new few-parameter phenomenological model of light curves of eclipsing binaries and stars with transiting planets that is able to fit the observed light curves with the accuracy better than 1\% of their amplitudes. The model can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-27 Zdeněk Mikulášek , Miloslav Zejda , Theodor Pribulla , Martin Vaňko , Shen-Bang Qian , Li-Ying Zhu

Binaries play key roles in determining stellar parameters and exploring stellar evolution models. We build a catalog of 88 eclipsing binaries with spectroscopic information, taking advantage of observations from both the Large Sky Area…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Fan Yang , Richard J. Long , Su-Su Shan , Bo Zhang , Rui Guo , Yu Bai , ZhongRui Bai , KaiMing Cui , Song Wang , Ji-Feng Liu

Precise and accurate mass and radius measurements of evolved stars are crucial to calibrating stellar models. Stars in detached eclipsing binaries (EBs) are excellent potential calibrators because their stellar parameters can be measured…

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

We derive analytic estimates for the ability with which one can obtain precise, empirical stellar masses and radii via single-lined eclipsing binaries (EBs) in the era of {\it Gaia\/} and {\it TESS}. Including stars that host transiting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Daniel J. Stevens , B. Scott Gaudi , Keivan G. Stassun

Traditionally, the effects of interstellar extinction on binary star light curves have been treated as a uniform reduction in the observed brightness of the system that is independent of orbital phase. However, unless the orbital plane of…

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