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In a recent study, Lee et al. presented new photometric follow-up timing observations of the semi-detached binary system SZ Herculis and proposed the existence of two hierarchical cirumbinary companions. Based on the light-travel time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. C. Hinse , K. Gozdziewski , J. W. Lee , N. Haghighipour , C. -U. Lee

This study aims at timing the eclipses of the binary star TU UMi. The times of minima are taken from the literature, from our observations in April 2004 and from TESS observations between 2019 and 2022. The orbital period analysis of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Dicle Zengin Çamurdan , Burcu Özkardeş

In this paper we present a combined photometric, spectroscopic and orbital period study of three early-type eclipsing binary systems: XZ Aql, UX Her, and AT Peg. As a result, we have derived the absolute parameters of their components and,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-26 S. Zola , O. Basturk , A. Liakos , K. Gazeas , H. V. Senavci , R. H. Nelson , I. Ozavci , B. Zakrzewski , M. Yilmaz

KIC 4247791 is an eclipsing binary observed by the Kepler satellite mission. We wish to determine the nature of its components and in particular the origin of a shallow dip in its Kepler light curve that previous investigations have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-06 H. Lehmann , M. Zechmeister , S. Dreizler , S. Schuh , R. Kanzler

In this paper we reanalyze the extended ETV curves of the formerly identified triple star candidates and many other $Kepler$ EBs. Besides the confirmations of the former findings and/or the improvements of the triple systems' orbital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 T. Borkovits , S. A. Rappaport , T. Mitnyan , I. B. Bíró , I. Csányi , E. Forgács-Dajka , A. Forró , T. Hajdu , B. Seli , J. Sztakovics , A. Göblyös , A. Pál

We present the first results of a Kepler survey of 41 eclipsing binaries that we undertook to search for third star companions. Such tertiaries will periodically alter the eclipse timings through light travel time and dynamical effects. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. R. Gies , S. J. Williams , R. A. Matson , Z. Guo , S. M. Thomas , J. A. Orosz , G. J. Peters

DI Herculis is an eclipsing binary famous for a longstanding disagreement between theory and observation of the apsidal precession rate, which was resolved when both stars were found to be severely misaligned with the orbit. We used data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Yan Liang , Joshua N. Winn , Simon H. Albrecht

We report a comprehensive search for hierarchical triple stellar system candidates amongst eclipsing binaries (EB) observed by the CoRoT spacecraft. We calculate and check eclipse timing variation (ETV) diagrams for almost 1500 EBs in an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 T. Hajdu , T. Borkovits , E. Forgács-Dajka , J. Sztakovics , G. Marschalkó , J. M. Benkő , P. Klagyivik , M. J. Sallai

V606 Centauri (V606 Cen) is an early B-type close binary with an orbital period of 1.4950935\,d and the complete light curves are very difficult to be observed on the ground. By analyzing the unbroken and continuous light curve obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-04 F. -X. Li , W. -P. Liao , S. -B. Qian , E. Fernández Lajús , J. Zhang , E. -G. Zhao

The discovery of circumbinary planets (CBPs) has advanced our understanding of planet formation and dynamical evolution in complex environments. However, the population of such planets remains small, leading their underlying physical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Benjamin D. R. Davies , David J. A. Brown , Samuel Gill , Jenni R. French

The available photometry from the online databases were used for the first light curve analysis of eight eclipsing binary systems EI Aur, XY Dra, BP Dra, DD Her, VX Lac, WX Lib, RZ Lyn, and TY Tri. All these stars are of Algol-type, having…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-05 P. Zasche

The orbit and physical parameters of the double-lined eclipsing binary V570 Per, discovered by the Hipparcos satellite, are derived with formal errors better than 1% using high resolution Echelle spectroscopy and B, V photoelectric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Marrese , U. Munari , R. Sordo , S. Dallaporta , A. Siviero , T. Zwitter

We report the discovery of a period doubling behaviour in a 2.4d BL Herculis-type variable of the Galactic bulge. Another bulge BL Her-type star (P=2.25d) is a strong period doubling candidate. Both objects have been identified with the…

Theories of stellar convective core overshoot can be examined through analysis of pulsating stars. Better accuracy can be achieved by obtaining external constraints such as those provided by observing pulsating stars in eclipsing binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Padraic Odesse , Catherine Lovekin

This paper reports on the discovery that an eclipsing binary system, EPIC 202843107 , has a {\delta} Scuti variable component. The phased light curve from Kepler space telescope presents a detached configuration. The binary modelling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Jian-Wen Ou , Ming Yang , Ji-Lin Zhou

The systems V949 Cen, V358 Pup, and V1055 Sco are triples comprised of an eclipsing binary orbiting with a distant visual component on a much longer orbit. The first detailed photometric analysis of these interesting systems was performed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-28 P. Zasche , K. Honkova , J. Jurysek , M. Masek

We report 370 measures of 170 components of binary and multiple star systems, obtained from speckle imaging observations made with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument at Lowell Observatory's Discovery Channel Telescope in 2015…

TIC 470710327, a massive compact hierarchical triple-star system, was recently identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TIC 470710327 is comprised of a compact (1.10 d) circular eclipsing binary, with total mass…

ASAS is a long term project to monitor bright variable stars over the whole sky. It has discovered 50,122 variables brighter than V < 14 mag south of declination +28 degrees, and among them 11,099 eclipsing binaries. We present a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Paczynski , D. Szczygiel , B. Pilecki , G. Pojmanski

We present spectroscopic observations of the massive multiple system HD\,167971, located in the open cluster NGC\,6604. The brighter component of the triple system is the overcontact eclipsing binary MY\,Ser with an orbital period of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. Ibanoglu , O. Cakirli , E. Sipah