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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 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

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

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 (HBSs) are ideal astrophysical laboratories to study the formation and evolution of binary stars in eccentric orbits and the internal structural changes of their components under strong tidal action. We discover 23 new HBSs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 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

Tidal forces in eccentric binary stars known as heartbeat stars excite detectable oscillations that shed light on the processes of tidal synchronization and circularization. We examine the pulsation phases of tidally excited oscillations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Zhao Guo , Avi Shporer , Kelly Hambleton , Howard Isaacson

We briefly review the current status of the study of tidally excited oscillations (TEOs) in heartbeat binary stars. Particular attention is paid to correctly extracting the TEOs when the Fourier spectrum also contains other types of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-07 Zhao Guo

Eccentric ellipsoidal variables (aka heartbeat stars) is a class of eccentric binaries in which proximity effects, tidal distortion due to time-dependent tidal potential in particular, lead to measurable photometric variability close to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański , A. Pigulski , M. Wrona , M. Ratajczak , A. Udalski

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 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

We revisit the Tidally Excited Oscillations (TEOs) in the A-type, main-sequence, eccentric binary KOI-54, the prototype of heartbeat stars. Although the linear tidal response of the star is a series of orbital-harmonic frequencies which are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Zhao Guo , Gordon I. Ogilvie , Gang Li , Richard H. D. Townsend , Meng Sun

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

We analyse TESS light curves for 70 southern $\lambda$ Boo stars to identify binaries and to determine which of them pulsate as $\delta$ Scuti stars. We find two heartbeat stars and two eclipsing binaries among the sample. We calculate that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 S. J. Murphy , E. Paunzen , T. R. Bedding , P. Walczak , D. Huber

Massive and intermediate-mass stars reside in binary systems much more frequently than low-mass stars. Binaries containing massive main-sequence (MS) component(s) are often characterised by eccentric orbits, and can be observed as eccentric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Piotr A. Kołaczek-Szymański , Tomasz Różański

Heartbeat stars are a class of eccentric binary stars with short-period orbits and characteristic "heartbeat" signals in their light curves at periastron, caused primarily by tidal distortion. In many heartbeat stars, tidally excited…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Shelley J. Cheng , Jim Fuller , Zhao Guo , Holger Lehman , Kelly Hambleton

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

Ground-based optical photometry of the counterparts of High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) has revealed the presence of periodic modulations on timescales of ~0.3-0.5 d. More recent space-based observations Corot and TESS of OB and Be stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Gavin Ramsay , Pasi Hakala , Philip A. Charles

We report the discovery of the third tidally tilted pulsator, TIC 63328020. Observations with the TESS satellite reveal binary eclipses with an orbital period of 1.1057 d, and $\delta$ Scuti-type pulsations with a mode frequency of 21.09533…

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 $30\%$…

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