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Results of an archival survey are presented using B-band imaging of the eastern spiral arm of M31. Focusing on the eclipsing binary star population, a matched-filter technique has been used to identify 280 binary systems. Of these, 127…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ian Todd , Don Pollacco , Ian Skillen , D. M. Bramich , Steve Bell , Thomas Augusteijn

We present 31 bright eclipsing contact and semi-detached binaries that showed high period change rates in a 5 year interval in observations by the All-Sky Automated Survey (ASAS). The time-scales of these changes range from only 50 up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Pilecki , D. Fabrycky , R. Poleski

Building on previous work, a new search of the SuperWASP archive was carried out to identify eclipsing binary systems near the short-period limit. 143 candidate objects were detected with orbital periods between 16000 and 20000 s, of which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. E. Lohr , A. J. Norton , U. C. Kolb , P. F. L. Maxted , I. Todd , R. G. West

We report the discovery of a compact triply eclipsing triple star system in the southern continuous viewing zone of the TESS space telescope. TIC 278825952 is a previously unstudied, circular eclipsing binary with a period of 4.781 days…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 T. Mitnyan , T. Borkovits , S. A. Rappaport , A. Pál , P. F. L. Maxted

Thirty-three 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 2009-11-12 P. Zasche

Aims. We aim to find more eclipsing multiple systems and obtain their parameters, thus increasing our understanding of multiple systems. Methods. The extraneous eclipses on the \textit{kepler} binary light curves indicating extraneous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 J. Zhang , S. B. Qian , S. M. Wang , L. L. Sun , Y. Wu , L. Q. Jiang

We present the discovery of two quadruple star systems -- TIC 285853156 and TIC 392229331 -- each consisting of two bound eclipsing binary stars. Among the most compact quadruples known, TIC 392229331 and TIC 285853156 have the second and…

UZ Dra is a detached and totally-eclipsing binary containing two late-F stars in a circular orbit of period 3.261 d. It has been observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in 41 sectors, yielding a total of 664,809 high-quality…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 John Southworth

Removing outbursts from multiwavelength light curves of the blazar Mrk~421, we construct outburstless time series for this system. A model-independent power spectrum light curve analysis in the optical, hard X-ray and gamma-rays for this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-21 E. Benitez , J. I. Cabrera , N. Fraija , X. Hernandez , O. Lopez-Corona , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , S. Mendoza

Close, compact, hierarchical, multiple stellar systems, i.e., multiples having an outer orbital period from months to a few years, comprise a small, but continuously growing group of the triple and multiple star zoo. Many of them consist of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Tamás Borkovits

Next-generation synoptic photometric surveys will yield unprecedented (for the astronomical community) volumes of data and the processes of discovery and rare-object identification are, by necessity, becoming more autonomous. Such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-08 Isaac Shivvers , Joshua S. Bloom , Joseph W. Richards

We report results from a search for Galactic high-mass eclipsing binaries. The photometric monitoring campaign was performed in Sloan $r$ and $i$ with the robotic twin refractor RoBoTT at the Universit\"atssternwarte Bochum in Chile and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 F. Pozo Nuñez , R. Chini , A. Barr Domínguez , Ch. Fein , M. Hackstein , Pietrzyński , Grzegorz , M. Murphy

We present a unique discovery of three new detected systems showing two different phenomena together. These are 2+2 quadruple stellar systems showing two eclipsing binaries as the inner pairs. And besides that, these systems were also found…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 P. Zasche , Z. Henzl , M. Mašek , J. Kára , H. Kučáková , J. Merc , R. Uhlař

We report eclipse timing variation analyses of 26 compact hierarchical triple stars comprised of an eccentric eclipsing ('inner') binary and a relatively close tertiary component found in the {\em Kepler} field. We simultaneously fit the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tamas Borkovits , Saul Rappaport , Tamas Hajdu , Janos Sztakovics

Hierarchical massive quadruple systems are ideal laboratories for examining the theories of star formation, dynamical evolution, and stellar evolution. The successive mergers of hierarchical quadruple systems might explain the mass gap…

We present spectroscopic and photometric observations of the eclipsing binary V32 located in the central field of the globular cluster NGC 6397. The variable is a single-line spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of 9.8783d and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson , S. M. Rucinski , W. Krzeminski

We report spectroscopic and differential photometric observations of the A-type system V482 Per that reveal it to be a rare hierarchical quadruple system containing two eclipsing binaries. One has the previously known orbital period of 2.4…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Guillermo Torres , Claud H. Sandberg Lacy , Francis C. Fekel , Marek Wolf , Matthew W. Muterspaugh

We identify 231 objects in the newly released Cycle 0 dataset from the Kepler Mission as double-eclipse, detached eclipsing binary systems with Teff < 5500 K and orbital periods shorter than ~32 days. We model each light curve using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. L. Coughlin , M. Lopez-Morales , T. E. Harrison , N. Ule , D. I. Hoffman

KIC 7177553 was observed by the Kepler satellite to be an eclipsing eccentric binary star system with an 18-day orbital period. Recently, an eclipse timing study of the Kepler binaries has revealed eclipse timing variations in this object…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 H. Lehmann , T. Borkovits , S. A. Rappaport , H. Ngo , D. Mawet , Sz. Csizmadia , E. Forgacs-Dajka

We report our investigation of 1SWASP J234401.81-212229.1, a variable with a 18461.6 s period. After identification in a 2011 search of the SuperWASP archive for main-sequence eclipsing binary candidates near the distribution's short-period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. E. Lohr , A. J. Norton , U. C. Kolb , D. R. S. Boyd