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Based on luminosity contributions, we develop a spectroscopic modelling method to derive atmospheric parameters of component stars in binary systems. The method is designed for those spectra of binaries which show double-lined features due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Xiang-Lei Chen , A-Li Luo , Jian-Jun Chen , Rui Wang , Xiao-Bin Zhang , Wen Hou , Bo Qiu , Fang Zuo

The study of eclipsing binaries is our primary source of measured properties of normal stars, achieved through analysis of light and radial velocity curves of eclipsing systems. The study of oscillations and pulsations is increasingly vital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-14 John Southworth

The fast classification of new variable stars is an important step in making them available for further research. Selection of science targets from large databases is much more efficient if they have been classified first. Defining the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Debosscher , L. M. Sarro , C. Aerts , J. Cuypers , B. Vandenbussche , R. Garrido , E. Solano

The importance of using fast and automatic methods to classify variable stars for large amounts of data is undeniable. There have been many attempts to classify variable stars by traditional algorithms like Random Forest. In recent years,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Mahdi Abdollahi , Nooshin Torabi , Sadegh Raeisi , Sohrab Rahvar

Individual stars located near the caustics of galaxy clusters can undergo extreme magnification when crossing micro-caustics, rendering them observable even at cosmological distances. Though most massive stars are likely reside in binary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-10 Wenwen Zheng , Xiaoting Fu , Yang Chen , Xuefei Chen , Yanjun Guo , Xuechun Chen , Huanyuan Shan , Guoliang Li

In this paper we estimate the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) yield of eclipsing binary stars, which will survey ~20,000 square degrees of the southern sky during the period of 10 years in 6 photometric passbands to r ~ 24.5. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Andrej Prsa , Joshua Pepper , Keivan G. Stassun

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

Eclipsing binary systems with pulsating components offer a unique possibility to accurately measure the most important parameters of pulsating stars, to study their evolution, and to test the pulsation theory. I will show what we can learn…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Bogumił Pilecki

We discuss methods for modeling eclipsing binary stars using the "physical", "simplified" and "phenomenological" models. There are few realizations of the "physical" Wilson-Devinney (1971) code and its improvements, e.g. Binary Maker,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-30 Mariia G. Tkachenko , Ivan L. Andronov

Stellar astrophysics relies on diverse observational modalities-primarily photometric light curves and spectroscopic data from which fundamental stellar properties are inferred. While machine learning (ML) has advanced analysis within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Ilay Kamai , Alex M. Bronstein , Hagai B. Perets

Machine Learning algorithms are good tools for both classification and prediction purposes. These algorithms can further be used for scientific discoveries from the enormous data being collected in our era. We present ways of discovering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Shraddha Surana , Yogesh Wadadekar , Divya Oberoi

The success of automatic classification of variable stars strongly depends on the lightcurve representation. Usually, lightcurves are represented as a vector of many statistical descriptors designed by astronomers called features. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Cristóbal Mackenzie , Karim Pichara , Pavlos Protopapas

In the last years, automatic classification of variable stars has received substantial attention. Using machine learning techniques for this task has proven to be quite useful. Typically, machine learning classifiers used for this task…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Lukas Zorich , Karim Pichara , Pavlos Protopapas

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

Machine learning has achieved an important role in the automatic classification of variable stars, and several classifiers have been proposed over the last decade. These classifiers have achieved impressive performance in several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 F. Pérez-Galarce , K. Pichara , P. Huijse , M. Catelan , D. Mery

During the last decade, a considerable amount of effort has been made to classify variable stars using different machine learning techniques. Typically, light curves are represented as vectors of statistical descriptors or features that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Carlos Aguirre , Karim Pichara , Ignacio Becker

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

Time-domain astronomy is progressing rapidly with the ongoing and upcoming large-scale photometric sky surveys led by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory project (LSST). Billions of variable sources call for better automatic classification…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Zihan Kang , Yanxia Zhang , Jingyi Zhang , Changhua Li , Minzhi Kong , Yongheng Zhao , Xue-Bing Wu

This study investigate the effectiveness of using Deep Learning (DL) for the classification of planetary nebulae (PNe). It focusses on distinguishing PNe from other types of objects, as well as their morphological classification. We adopted…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-01 Dayang N. F. Awang Iskandar , Albert A. Zijlstra , Iain McDonald , Rosni Abdullah , Gary A. Fuller , Ahmad H. Fauzi , Johari Abdullah

We have undertaken a dedicated program of automatic source classification in the WISE database merged with SuperCOSMOS scans, comprehensively identifying galaxies, quasars and stars on most of the unconfused sky. We use the Support Vector…

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