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Contact binary star systems represent the long-lived penultimate phase of binary evolution. Population statistics of their physical parameters inform understanding of binary evolutionary pathways and end products. We use light curves and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Henry A. Kobulnicky , Lawrence A. Molnar , Evan M. Cook , Lauren E. Henderson

We investigate the properties of 367 ultra-short period binary candidates selected from 31,000 sources recently identified from Catalina Surveys data. Based on light curve morphology, along with WISE, SDSS and GALEX multi-colour photometry,…

High precision CCD observations of six totally eclipsing contact binaries were presented and analyzed. It is found that only one target is an A-type contact binary (V429 Cam), while the others are W-type contact ones. By analyzing the times…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Kai Li , Qi-Qi Xia , Chun-Hwey Kim , Xing Gao , Shao-Ming Hu , Di-Fu Guo , Dong-Yang Gao , Xu Chen , Ya-Ni Guo

We present the photometric and spectroscopic analysis of four W UMa binaries J015829.5+260333 (hereinafter as J0158), J030505.1+293443 (hereinafter as J0305), J102211.7+310022 (hereinafter as J1022) and KW Psc. The VRcIc band photometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Alaxendra Panchal , Yogesh C. Joshi

On the basis of monotonic orbital-period variations, this study aims to identify genuine relationships between binary parameters and the rates of mass transfer (MT), mass loss (ML), and angular momentum loss (AML). Sample binaries with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Shinjirou Kouzuma

We present a comprehensive photometric light curve and orbital period analysis of the W UMa-type contact binary EM Tuc. The O-C analysis constructed from all available eclipse timings exhibits a clear upward parabolic trend, indicating a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Sepideh Houshiar , Atila Poro , Abbas Abedini , Eduardo Fernández Lajús

The period distribution of contact binaries exhibits a very sharp short period cut-off at 0.22 days. In order to provide valuable information on this short period limit, we observed ten totally eclipsing contact binaries with orbital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Kai Li , Qi-Qi Xia , Raul Michel , Shao-Ming Hu , Di-Fu Guo , Xing Gao , Xu Chen , Dong-Yang Gao

The first multicolor observations, and light curve solutions, of the eclipsing binary systems V1009~Per and CRTS~J031642.2+332639 are presented. Using the 2005 version of the Wilson-Devinney code, both systems are found to be W UMa contact…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Raul Michel , Francesco Acerbi , Carlo Barani , Massimiliano Martignoni

Reanalyzing contact binaries with space-based photometric data and investigating possible parameter changes can yield accurate samples for theoretical studies. We investigated light curve solutions and fundamental parameters for twenty…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Ehsan Paki , Atila Poro

This study continues our in-depth investigation of total-eclipse W Ursae Majoris-type contact binaries by analyzing eight new systems, complementing our previous work. Multiband $BVR_cI_c$ photometric data were acquired through ground-based…

In the era of astronomical big data, more than one million contact binaries have been discovered. Traditional approaches of light curve analysis are inadequate for investigating such an extensive number of systems. This paper builds on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Kai Li , Li-Heng Wang

Starting from more than 11,200 short-period (less than 0.5 days) EW-type eclipsing binary candidates with the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) V-band light curves, we use MCMC and neural networks (NNs) to obtain the mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Xu-Zhi Li , Qing-Feng Zhu , Xu Ding , Xiao-Hui Xu , Hang Zheng , Jin-Sheng Qiu , Ming-Chao Liu

With the development of wide-field surveys, a large amount of data on short-period W UMa contact binaries have been obtained. Continuous and uninterrupted light curves as well as high-resolution spectroscopic data are crucial in determining…

This study presents new, high-quality, optical photometric observations of three W UMa type contact binaries. The analysis of the corresponding light curves is made using Djurasevic's inverse problem method. To explain the light curve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Marko Grozdanović , Gojko Đurašević

Aims: Detect tertiary components of close binaries from spectroscopy and light curve modelling; investigate light-travel time effect and the possibility of magnetic activity cycles; measure mass-ratios for unstudied systems and derive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Szalai , L. L. Kiss , Sz. Meszaros , J. Vinko , Sz. Csizmadia

We examine the capacity to identify binary systems from astrometric errors and deviations alone. Until the release of the fourth Gaia data release we lack the full astrometric time series that the satellite records, but as we show can still…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Zephyr Penoyre , Vasily Belokurov , N. Wyn Evans

This study broadens our comprehensive investigation of total-eclipse W Ursae Majoris-type contact binaries by analyzing eight additional systems, continuing our previous research. Multiband $BVR_cI_c$ photometric data were obtained at an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Atila Poro , Raul Michel , Francisco Javier Tamayo , Mahya Hedayatjoo , Hector Aceves , Fahri Alicavus

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

Gaia DR3 parallaxes are used to calibrate preliminary period--luminosity relations of O-rich Mira variables in the 2MASS $J$, $H$ and $K_s$ bands using a probabilistic model accounting for variations in the parallax zeropoint and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Jason L. Sanders