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The photometric and spectroscopic investigations of ten contact binaries were presented for the first time. It is discovered that the mass ratios of all the ten targets are smaller than 0.15, they are extremely low mass ratio contact…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Kai Li , Xiang Gao , Xin-Yi Liu , Xing Gao , Ling-Zhi Li , Xu Chen , Guo-You Sun

Abstract abridged. Eclipsing binary systems provide the opportunity to measure the fundamental parameters of their component stars in a stellar-model-independent way. This makes them ideal candidates for testing and calibrating theories of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-12 Luc W. IJspeert , Andrew Tkachenko , Cole Johnston , Andrej Prša , Mark A. Wells , Conny Aerts

Close binary stars are binary stars where the component stars are close enough such that they can exchange mass and/or energy. They are subdivided into semi-detached, overcontact or ellipsoidal binary stars. A challenging problem in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Sandip V. George , R. Misra , G. Ambika

We used a convolutional neural network to infer stellar rotation periods from a set of synthetic light curves simulated with realistic spot evolution patterns. We convolved these simulated light curves with real TESS light curves containing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Zachary R. Claytor , Jennifer L. van Saders , Joe Llama , Peter Sadowski , Brandon Quach , Ellis Avallone

This study examines the characterization of binary star systems using Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs), a technique increasingly essential with the rise of large-scale astronomical surveys. Binaries can emit flux at different regions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Vikrant V. Jadhav

(abridged) Context. Wide binaries are a potential pathway for the formation of hot Jupiters. The binary fraction among host stars is an important discriminator between competing formation theories, but has not been well characterised.…

We present our second catalog of quadruple star candidates, containing 101 systems discovered in TESS Full-Frame Image data. The targets were initially detected as eclipsing binary stars with the help of supervised machine learning methods…

Young associations in star forming regions are stellar systems that allow us to understand the mechanisms that characterise the stars in their early life and what happens around them. In particular, the analysis of the disks and of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 D. Nardiello

Light curves from binary systems containing white dwarfs with neutron star or stellar-mass black hole companions (WD+NS and WD+BH) with edge-on orbital planes potentially show self-lensing/eclipsing signals. Here, we evaluate the properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Sedighe Sajadian , Man Ho Chan

We present multi-color CCD photometry of the neglected contact binary XZ Leo. Completely covered VRI band light curves and four times of minimum light were obtained. Combining the photometric and previously published radial velocity data, a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Changqing Luo , Xiaobin. Zhang , Licai Deng , Kun Wang , Yangping Luo

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission measured light from stars in ~85% of the sky throughout its two-year primary mission, resulting in millions of TESS 30-minute cadence light curves to analyze in the search for…

'Spider' binary systems - black widow and redback compact binaries differentiated by their companion's mass and nature - are an important type of pulsar system exhibiting a rich empirical phenomenology, including radio eclipses, optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-12 Christo Venter , Andreas Kopp , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Alice K Harding , M Baring

The MONOS project (Multiplicity Of Northern O-type Spectroscopic systems) aims to characterize O-type spectroscopic binaries in the northern hemisphere (dec > -20 deg) using high-resolution spectroscopy and multi-epoch photometry. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 G. Holgado , J. Maíz Apellániz , R. C. Gamen

We present a catalog of binary companions to $\delta$ Scuti stars, detected through phase modulations of their pulsations in TESS data. Pulsation timing has provided orbits for hundreds of pulsating stars in binaries from space-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Shishir Dholakia , Simon J. Murphy , Chelsea X. Huang , Alexander Venner , Duncan Wright

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) presents us with an unprecedented volume of space-based photometric observations that must be analyzed in an efficient and unbiased manner. With at least $\sim1,000,000$ new light curves…

Deep and low mass-ratio contact binaries (DLMCBs) are believed to be in the final stage of their contact phase, potentially leading to the formation of fast-rotating single stars such as FK Com-type stars and blue stragglers, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Liying Zhu , Shengbang Qian , Wenping Liao , Jia Zhang , Xiangdong Shi , Linjia Li , Fangbin Meng , Jiangjiao Wang , Azizbek Matekov

We carried out a systematic study of full-orbit phase curves for known transiting systems in the northern ecliptic sky that were observed during Year 2 of the TESS primary mission. We applied the same methodology for target selection, data…

New multi-color light curves of the very short period K-type eclipsing binary V1799 Ori were obtained and analyzed with the W-D code. The photometric solutions reveal that the system is a W-type shallow-contact binary with a mass ratio of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nian-Ping Liu , Sheng-Bang Qian , Wen-Ping Liao , Jia-Jia He , Er-Gang Zhao , Liang Liu

The study reports photometric and spectroscopic observations of two recently recognised contact binary systems. Both systems show total eclipses and analysis of the light curves indicate both have a very low mass ratios of less than 0.3. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-05 Surjit S. Wadhwa , Jelena Petrovic , Nick F. H. Tothill , Ain Y. De Horta , Miroslav D. Filipovic , Gojko Djuraševic