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We present optical and infrared observations taken with the Very Large Telescope of the eclipsing binary pulsar system PSR B1718-19. The candidate companion of the pulsar, identified earlier in Hubble Space Telescope observations, has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Janssen , M. H. van Kerkwijk

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 present TESS photometry of the triple star system V1031 Ori (AB)C, which exhibits short-period oscillations superimposed on an eclipsing light curve. The high-quality data were analyzed in detail and combined with the published…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Jae Woo Lee

Precise measurements of stellar parameters are required in order to develop our theoretical understanding of stellar structure. These measurements enable errors and uncertainties to be quantified in theoretical models and constrain the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Z. Jennings , J. Southworth , P. F. L. Maxted , L. Mancini

Since the end of 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has provided stellar photometry to the astronomical community. We have used TESS data to study rotational modulation in the light curves of a sample of chemically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 O. Kobzar , V. Khalack , D. Bohlender , G. Mathys , M. E. Shultz , D. M. Bowman , E. Paunzen , C. Lovekin , A. David-Uraz , J. Sikora , P. Lampens , O. Richard

We discuss prospects of identifying and characterizing black hole (BH) companions to normal stars on tight but detached orbits, using photometric data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). We focus on the following two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 Kento Masuda , Kenta Hotokezaka

Binaries play key roles in determining stellar parameters and exploring stellar evolution models. We build a catalog of 88 eclipsing binaries with spectroscopic information, taking advantage of observations from both the Large Sky Area…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Fan Yang , Richard J. Long , Su-Su Shan , Bo Zhang , Rui Guo , Yu Bai , ZhongRui Bai , KaiMing Cui , Song Wang , Ji-Feng Liu

Based on 2-minute cadence TESS data from sectors 1-50, we report the results of the systematic extraction of $\delta$ Scuti-type pulsations in the 6431 eclipsing binaries with orbital periods shorter than 13 days. A total number of 242…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 Chen Xinghao , Ding Xu , Cheng Liantao , Zhang Xiaobin , Li Yan , Ji Kaifan , Xiong Jianping , Li Xuzhi , Luo Changqing

The recently launched NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is going to collect lightcurves for a few hundred million of stars and we expect to increase the number of pulsating stars to analyze compared to the few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 L. Bugnet , R. A. García , G. R. Davies , S. Mathur , O. J. Hall , B. M. Rendle

Pulsating stars in eclipsing binary systems play an important role in asteroseismology. The combination of their spectroscopic and photometric orbital solutions can be used to determine, or at least to constrain, the masses and radii of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 D. Drobek , A. Pigulski

High-precision and high-cadence photometric surveys such as Kepler or TESS are making huge progress not only in the detection of new extrasolar planets but also in the study of a great number of variable stars. This is the case for central…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Alba Aller , Jorge Lillo-Box , David Jones

The updated catalogue of $\delta$ Sct stars in binary systems as well as their statistical properties are presented. Thanks to the Kepler, K2 and TESS space missions, this version of the catalogue contains more than 1000 $\delta$ Sct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Alexios Liakos

Stellar fundamental properties (masses, radii, effective temperatures) can be extracted from observations of eclipsing binary systems with remarkable precision, often better than 2%. Such precise measurements afford us the opportunity to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Gregory A. Feiden

In recent years we have witnessed an explosion of photometric time-series data, collected for the purpose of finding a small number of rare sources, such as transiting extrasolar planets and gravitational microlenses. Once combed, these…

More than 340 non-eclipsing binaries of A-F stars as primaries at intermediate periods (100-1000 d) were newly found by uninterrupted photometry with ultra high-precision taken over 4 yr by Kepler space mission via the phase modulation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-18 Hiromoto Shibahashi , Simon J. Murphy

Eclipses and pulsations are the two primary ways in which the physical properties of stars can be deduced and used to improve our understanding of stellar theory. An obvious idea is to combine these two analyses into the study of pulsating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 John Southworth

Eclipsing binaries with a $\delta$ Sct component are powerful tools to derive the fundamental parameters and probe the internal structure of stars. In this study, spectral analysis of 6 primary $\delta$ Sct components in eclipsing binaries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 F. Kahraman Aliçavuş , E. Soydugan , B. Smalley , J. Kubát

We present an analysis of the high-mass eclipsing binary system VV Ori based on photometry from the TESS satellite. The primary star (B1V, 9.5 Msun) shows beta Cephei pulsations and the secondary (B7V, 3.8 Msun) is possibly a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 John Southworth , D. M. Bowman , K. Pavlovski

EL CVn-type eclipsing binaries are composed of a massive A-type main-sequence primary star and a hotter B-type secondary star. This paper presents the time-series photometric and asteroseismic results of the EL CVn-type star 1SWASP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Seung-Lee Kim , Jae Woo Lee , Chung-Uk Lee , Yongseok Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Kyeongsoo Hong , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Byeong-Gon Park