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Heartbeat stars (HBSs) are ideal laboratories for studying the formation and evolution of binary stars in eccentric orbits and their mutual tidal interactions. We present 42 new HBSs discovered based on TESS-SPOC and QLP data. Their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Min-Yu Li , Sheng-Bang Qian , Ai-Ying Zhou , Li-Ying Zhu , Wen-Ping Liao , Lin-Feng Chang , Xiang-Dong Shi , Fu-Xing Li , Qi-Bin Sun , Ping Li

Heartbeat stars (HBSs) with tidally excited oscillations (TEOs) are ideal astrophysical laboratories for studying the internal properties of the systems. In this paper, five new HBSs exhibiting TEOs are discovered using TESS photometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Min-Yu Li , Sheng-Bang Qian , Ai-Ying Zhou , Li-Ying Zhu , Wen-Ping Liao , Er-Gang Zhao , Xiang-Dong Shi , Fu-Xing Li , Qi-Bin Sun

We identify $240$ short-period ($P \lesssim 10$ days) binary systems in the TESS data, $180$ of which are heartbeat binaries (HB). The sample is mostly a mix of A and B-type stars and primarily includes eclipsing systems, where over $30\%$…

Heartbeat stars are a subclass of binary stars with short periods, high eccentricities, and phase-folded light curves that resemble an electrocardiogram. We start from the $\textit{Gaia}$ catalogs of spectroscopic binaries and use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Jowen Callahan , D. M. Rowan , C. S. Kochanek , K. Z. Stanek

Heartbeat stars (HBSs) with tidally excited oscillations (TEOs) are ideal laboratories for studying the effect of equilibrium and dynamical tides. However, studies of TEOs in Kepler HBSs are rare due to the need for better modeling of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Min-Yu Li , Sheng-Bang Qian , Li-Ying Zhu , Wen-Ping Liao , Er-Gang Zhao , Xiang-Dong Shi , Fu-Xing Li , Qi-Bin Sun , Ping Li

Heartbeat stars are eccentric binaries exhibiting characteristic shape of brightness changes during periastron passage caused by tidal distortion of the components. Variable tidal potential can drive tidally excited oscillations (TEOs),…

Heartbeat stars (HB stars) are a class of eccentric binary stars with close periastron passages. The characteristic photometric HB signal evident in their light curves is produced by a combination of tidal distortion, heating, and Doppler…

We present multi-epoch spectroscopy of "heartbeat stars," eccentric binaries with dynamic tidal distortions and tidally induced pulsations originally discovered with the Kepler satellite. Optical spectra of six known heartbeat stars using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Rachel A. Smullen , Henry A. Kobulnicky

Pulsating stars in eclipsing binaries are very important to understand stellar interior structures through astroseismology because their absolute parameters such as the masses and radii can be determined in high precision based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Xiang-Dong Shi , Sheng-Bang Qian , Lin-Jia Li

Since the variety of their light curve morphologies, the vast majority of the known heartbeat stars (HBSs) have been discovered by manual inspection. Machine learning, which has already been successfully applied to the classification of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Min-Yu Li , Sheng-Bang Qian , Li-Ying Zhu , Wen-Ping Liao , Lin-Feng Chang , Er-Gang Zhao , Xiang-Dong Shi , Fu-Xing Li , Qi-Bin Sun , Ping Li

We present an analysis of 991 heartbeat stars (HBSs) from the OGLE Collection of Variable Stars (OCVS). The sample consists of 512 objects located toward the Galactic bulge (GB), 439 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 40 in the Small…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-22 Marcin Wrona , Piotr A. Kołaczek-Szymański , Milena Ratajczak , Szymon Kozłowski

Heartbeat stars are eccentric binary stars in short period orbits whose light curves are shaped by tidal distortion, reflection, and Doppler beaming. Some heartbeat stars exhibit tidally excited oscillations and present new opportunities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Jim Fuller

Eclipsing binaries are crucial for understanding stellar physics, allowing detailed studies of stellar masses, radii, and orbital dynamics. Recent space missions like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have significantly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 L. W. IJspeert , A. Tkachenko , C. Johnston , C. Aerts

We present a new eclipsing binary (EB) showing multiperiodic oscillations using the first three sectors of {\it TESS} photometry. The eclipse and pulsation light curves of TIC 309658221 were modeled using an iterative method to obtain a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Jae Woo Lee , Martti H. Kristiansen , Kyeongsoo Hong

We identify the bright Am-type star HD 181793 to be a previously-unknown eclipsing, chemically peculiar heartbeat binary, the second of its kind known. The system carries an orbital period of $P = 11.47578275 \pm 0.00000055$ days. We use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Laura E. Uronen , Andrew Collier Cameron , Thomas G. Wilson

Hot subdwarf B (sdB) stars are post-main-sequence stars of high temperature and gravity. Approximately 30$\%$ of sdBs exhibit stable pressure and/or gravity-mode pulsations, which can be used via the timing method to test for companion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-05 Tomomi Otani , A. S. Baran , Lindsay C. Spence , Ted von Hippel , E. Lynum-Lozano , Julia. M. Clark

The presence of pulsating stars in eclipsing binary systems (EBs) makes these objects significant since they allow us to investigate the stellar interior structure and evolution. Different types of pulsating stars could be found in EBs such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 F. Kahraman Alicavus , G. C. Coban , E. Celik , D. S. Dogan , O. Ekinci , F. Alicavus

Eccentric binaries known as heartbeat stars experience strong dynamical tides as the stars pass through periastron, providing a laboratory to study tidal interactions. We measure the rotation periods of 24 heartbeat systems, using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Mara Zimmerman , Susan Thompson , Fergal Mullally , Jim Fuller , Avi Shporer , Kelly Hambleton

We present a homogeneously-selected sample of 15779 candidate binary systems with main sequence primary stars and orbital periods shorter than 5 days. The targets were selected from TESS full-frame image lightcurves on the basis of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-03 Matthew J. Green , Dan Maoz , Tsevi Mazeh , Simchon Faigler , Sahar Shahaf , Roy Gomel , Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix

Tidally excited oscillations (TEOs) in Heartbeat Stars (HBSs) are an essential probe of the internal properties of the systems, but their potential has yet to be fully exploited. Based on the orbital parameters of TEO candidates from our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Min-Yu Li , Sheng-Bang Qian , Li-Ying Zhu , Zhao Guo , Wen-Ping Liao , Er-Gang Zhao , Xiang-Dong Shi , Fu-Xing Li , Qi-Bin Sun
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