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We present a catalog of precise eclipse times and analysis of third body signals among 1279 close binaries in the latest Kepler Eclipsing Binary Catalog. For these short period binaries, Kepler's 30 minute exposure time causes significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kyle E. Conroy , Andrej Prsa , Keivan G. Stassun , Jerome A. Orosz , Daniel C. Fabrycky , William F. Welsh

In this study, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of the SX Phoenicis (SX Phe) type star CY Aquarii (CY Aqr). Our investigation included a detailed $O-C$ analysis based on a 90-year observational dataset, augmented by 1,367 newly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Ming Lian , Jia-Shu Niu , Hui-Fang Xue

We present the results of the study of the contact binary system BO CVn. We have obtained physical parameters of the components based on combined analysis of new, multi-color light curves and spectroscopic mass ratio. This is the first time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-23 S. Zola , R. H. Nelson , V. Senavci , T. Szymanski , A. Kuzmicz , M. Winiarski , D. Jableka

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

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

Blue and Visual photoelectric light curves have been achieved for the eclipsing binary SW Lac in 1995. Nine moments of minimum light were derived. Period of 0.320854 days have been determined as the mean of those derived from blue and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-13 A. Essam , A. El-Bassuny Alawy , M. A. Hamdy

We present the photometric analysis of \textit{BVR} and \textit{TESS} light curves of three eclipsing binaries (RU~UMi and purely studied VY~UMi, GSC 04364-00648), together with their period changes considering archival data and new minima…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 V. Kudak , Š. Parimucha , V. Perig , P. Gajdoš

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

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 examined light curves of 1138 stars brighter than 18.0 mag in the $I$ band and less than a mean magnitude error of 0.1 mag in the $V$ band from the OGLE-III eclipsing binary catalogue, and found 90 new binary systems exhibiting apsidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 K. Hong , J. W. Lee , S. -L. Kim , J. -R. Koo , C. -U. Lee

In this paper, we present the first light curve synthesis and orbital period change analysis of nine contact binaries around the short period limit. It is found that all these systems are W-subtype contact binaries. One of them is a medium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Kai Li , Chun-Hwey Kim , Qi-Qi Xia , Raul Michel , Shao-Ming Hu , Xing Gao , Di-Fu Guo , Xu Chen

Aims: New CCD observations for semidetached and detached eclipsing binaries from the Large Magellanic Cloud were carried out using the Danish 1.54-m telescope located at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The selected systems were monitored…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 P. Zasche , M. Wolf , J. Vrastil , L. Pilarcik , J. Jurysek

FO Aqr is a bright intermediate polar that has long displayed large amplitude photometric variations corresponding to the 20.9 min spin period of its white dwarf. Between 2016 and 2020, the system suffered a series of unprecedented…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Peter Garnavich , Colin Littlefield , Rebecca S. Boyle , Mark Kennedy

The study of very short-period contact binaries provides an important laboratory in which the most important and problematic astrophysical processes of stellar evolution take place. Short-period contact systems, such as CC Com are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Dolunay Koçak

A short period eclipsing binary star CV Boo is tested for the possible existence of additional bodies in the system with a help of the light equation method. We use data on the moments of minima from the literature as well as from our…

Twenty-one eclipsing binaries were selected for an analysis from a huge database of observations made by the INTEGRAL/OMC camera. The photometric data were processed and analyzed, resulting in a first light-curve study of these neglected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-15 P. Zasche

KIC 9532219 is a W UMa-type eclipsing binary with an orbital period of 0.1981549 d that is below the short-period limit ($\sim$0.22 d) of the period distribution for contact binaries. The {\it Kepler} light curve of the system exhibits…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jae Woo Lee , Kyeongsoo Hong , Jae-Rim Koo , Jang-Ho Park

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

We present results of the CFHT adaptive optics search for companions of a homogeneous group of contact binary stars, as a contribution to our attempts to prove a hypothesis that these binaries require a third star to become so close as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Slavek M. Rucinski , Theodor Pribulla , Marten van Kerkwijk

Eclipsing Algol-type systems containing a $\delta$ Scuti (hereafter $\delta$ Sct) star enable precise determination of physical parameters and the investigation of stellar internal structure and evolution. We present the absolute parameters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Qi-Huan Zeng , Wen-Ping Liao , Sheng-Bang Qian , Lin-Jia Li , Ping Li , Zhao-Long Deng