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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

Pulsations and binarity are both common features of massive stars. The study of pulsating massive stars in eclipsing binary systems hold great potential for constraining stellar structure and evolution theory. However, prior to the all-sky…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 John Southworth , Dominic M. Bowman

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

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

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

It is now clear that binarity plays a crucial role in many aspects of planetary nebulae (PNe), particularly the striking morphologies they exhibit. To date, there are ~60 known bCSPNe. However, both theory and observation indicates that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 A. Aller , J. Lillo-Box , D. Jones , L. F. Miranda , S. Barceló Forteza

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

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

We present a new homogeneous sample of 32 spectroscopic binary orbits in the young (~ 150 Myr) main-sequence open cluster M35. The distribution of orbital eccentricity vs. orbital period (e-log(P)) displays a distinct transition from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Meibom , R. D. Mathieu

We present high-precision light curves of several M- and K-type, active detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs), recorded with 2-minute cadence by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Analysis of these curves, combined with new and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Krzysztof G. Hełminiak , Andrés Jordán , Nestor Espinoza , Rafael Brahm

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…

Tidal interactions are one of the primary drivers of orbital evolution for massive planets with short orbital periods. Tidal dissipation within host stars can cause the orbits of such planets to decay. However, the mechanisms of tidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Noah Sodickson , Samuel Grunblatt

In this work we report the independent discovery and analysis of nine new compact triply eclipsing triple star systems found with the TESS mission: TICs 47151245, 81525800, 99013269, 229785001, 276162169, 280883908, 294803663, 332521671,…

We present the catalogue of the TESS targets showing multiple eclipses. It means that in all of these stars we detected two sets of eclipses, for which their two distinctive periods can be derived. These multiple stellar systems can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 P. Zasche , Z. Henzl , M. Masek

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),…

The rate of tidal circularization is predicted to be faster for relatively cool stars with convective outer layers, compared to hotter stars with radiative outer layers. Observing this effect is challenging, because it requires large and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Vincent Van Eylen , Joshua N. Winn , Simon Albrecht

Circumbinary planets and brown dwarfs form in complex gravitational environments, offering insights into formation, orbital stability, and habitability prospects. However, they remain underrepresented, with only 60 confirmed or candidate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Ekrem Murat Esmer , Tansu Daylan

Eclipsing binary systems (EBs), as foundational objects in stellar astrophysics, have garnered significant attention in recent years. These systems exhibit periodic decreases in light intensity when one star obscures the other from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Ying Shan , Jing Chen , Zichong Zhang , Liang Wang , Zhiqiang Zou , Min Li

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

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