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Massive stars exhibit a perplexing mismatch between their inferred masses from different observational techniques, posing a significant challenge to our understanding of stellar evolution and structure. This discrepancy is believed to be…

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Stars that are both pulsating and eclipsing offer an important opportunity to better understand many of the physical phenomena that occur in stars, because it is possible to measure the pulsation frequencies of stars for which the masses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-28 Zachary Jennings , John Southworth , Kresimir Pavlovski , Timothy Van Reeth

Orbital parameters of binary radio pulsars reveal the history of the pulsars' formation and evolution including dynamic interactions with other objects. Advanced technology has enabled us to determine these orbital parameters accurately in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 Manjari Bagchi

Detached eclipsing binaries are a fundamental tool for measuring the physical parameters of stars that are effectively evolving in isolation. Starting from more than 40,000 eclipsing binary candidates identified by the All-Sky Automated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 D. M. Rowan , T. Jayasinghe , K. Z. Stanek , C. S. Kochanek , Todd A. Thompson , B. J. Shappee , T. W. -S. Holoien , J. L. Prieto , W. Giles

We present a complex study of the eclipsing binary system, AB Cas. The analysis of the whole TESS light curve, corrected for the binary effects, reveals 112 significant frequency peaks with 17 independent signals. The dominant frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 A. Miszuda , P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański , W. Szewczuk , J. Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz

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

Pulsating stars in eclipsing binaries (EBs) provide an excellent opportunity to obtain precise, model-independent stellar parameters for studying oscillations in detail. One common class of pulsators in these EBs exhibits delta Scuti-type…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 T. Pawar , K. G. Hełminiak , A. Moharana , G. Pawar , M. Pyatnytskyy , H. N. Lala , M. Konacki

We re-analyze the pristine eclipsing binary data from the $\textit{Kepler}$ and TESS missions, focusing on eccentricity measurements at short orbital periods to emperically constrain tidal circularization. We find an average circularization…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 J. J. Zanazzi

The study of pulsating stars in eclipsing binaries holds the promise of combining two different ways of measuring the physical properties of a star to obtain improved constraints on stellar theory. Gravity (g) mode pulsations such as those…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 John Southworth , Timothy Van Reeth

Detached eclipsing binaries are the primary tool used to measure precise masses and radii of stars. In our previous paper estimating the parameters of more than 30,000 detached eclipsing binaries, we identified 766 eclipsing binaries with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 D. M. Rowan , T. Jayasinghe , K. Z. Stanek , C. S. Kochanek , Todd A. Thompson , B. J. Shappee , T. W. -S. Holoien , J. L. Prieto , W. Giles

After a brief introduction into the asteroseismic modelling of stars, we provide a compilation of the current seismic estimates of the core overshooting parameter and of the rotational frequency of single and binary massive stars. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Conny Aerts

Short-period binary star systems dissipate orbital energy through tidal interactions that lead to tighter, more circular orbits. When at least one star in a binary has evolved off of the main sequence, orbital circularization occurs for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Jeremy Goodman

We present results of a study on identifying circumbinary planet candidates that produce multiple transits during one conjunction with eclipsing binary systems. The occurrence of these transits enables us to estimate the candidates' orbital…

We present results of a continuation of our Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) search for short-period pulsations in compact stellar objects observed during Years 2 and 4 of the TESS mission that targeted the northern ecliptic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 A. S. Baran , S. Charpinet , R. H. Østensen , M. D. Reed , V. Van Grootel , C. Lyu , J. H. Telting , P. Németh

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

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

The number of known periodic variable stars has increased rapidly in recent years. As an all-sky transit survey, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) plays an important role in detecting low-amplitude variable stars. Using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Xinyi Gao , Xiaodian Chen , Shu Wang , Jifeng Liu

Stellar binaries are ubiquitous in the galaxy and a laboratory for astrophysical effects. We use TESS to study photometric modulations in the lightcurves of 162 unequal mass eclipsing binaries from the EBLM (Eclipsing Binary Low Mass)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Ritika Sethi , David V. Martin

Many stars exhibit stellar pulsations, favoring them for asteroseismic analyses. Interpreting the oscillations requires some knowledge of the oscillation mode geometry (spherical degree, radial and azimuthal orders). The delta Scuti stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-06 O. L. Creevey , T. S. Metcalfe , T. M. Brown , S. Jiménez-Reyes , J. A. Belmonte