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Abridged. Eclipsing spectroscopic double-lined binaries are the prime source of precise and accurate measurements of masses and radii of stars. These measurements provide a stringent test of models of stellar evolution that are persistently…

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Context. The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) observed around 450,000 eclipsing binaries (EBs) towards the Galactic Bulge. Decade-long photometric observations such as these provide an exceptional opportunity to thoroughly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Rozália Z. Ádám , Tamás Hajdu , Attila Bódi , Róbert Hajdu , Tamás Szklenár , László Molnár

The first detailed photometric and spectroscopic analysis of the G-type eclipsing binary KM UMa is presented, which indicates that the system is a short-period detached eclipsing binary. The radial velocity curves were calculated using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Fangbin Meng , Liying Zhu , Nianping Liu , Ping Li , Jia Zhang , Linjia Li , Azizbek Matekov

We present a comprehensive photometric light curve and orbital period analysis of the W UMa-type contact binary EM Tuc. The O-C analysis constructed from all available eclipse timings exhibits a clear upward parabolic trend, indicating a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Sepideh Houshiar , Atila Poro , Abbas Abedini , Eduardo Fernández Lajús

A single point source on the OGLE LMC database shows the characteristics of two superimposed eclipsing binaries (EBs). The two EBs happen to have periods very close to the 3:2 resonance. The telescope's small PSF and the apparent resonance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Aviv Ofir

Close, compact, hierarchical, multiple stellar systems, i.e., multiples having an outer orbital period from months to a few years, comprise a small, but continuously growing group of the triple and multiple star zoo. Many of them consist of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Tamás Borkovits

The beaming effect (aka Doppler boosting) induces a variation in the observed flux of a luminous object, following its observed radial velocity variation. We describe a photometric signal induced by the beaming effect during eclipse of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Avi Shporer , Tim Brown , Tsevi Mazeh , Shay Zucker

The photometric and spectroscopic investigations of ten contact binaries were presented for the first time. It is discovered that the mass ratios of all the ten targets are smaller than 0.15, they are extremely low mass ratio contact…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Kai Li , Xiang Gao , Xin-Yi Liu , Xing Gao , Ling-Zhi Li , Xu Chen , Guo-You Sun

Results of an archival survey are presented using B-band imaging of the eastern spiral arm of M31. Focusing on the eclipsing binary star population, a matched-filter technique has been used to identify 280 binary systems. Of these, 127…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ian Todd , Don Pollacco , Ian Skillen , D. M. Bramich , Steve Bell , Thomas Augusteijn

Low mass ratio contact binary systems are more likely to have unstable orbits and potentially merge. In addition, such systems exhibit characteristics such as starspots and high energy emissions (UV) suggestive of chromospheric and magnetic…

Aims. We aim to find more eclipsing multiple systems and obtain their parameters, thus increasing our understanding of multiple systems. Methods. The extraneous eclipses on the \textit{kepler} binary light curves indicating extraneous…

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Most extrasolar planets currently known were discovered by means of an indirect method that measures the stellar wobble caused by the planet. We previously studied a triple system composed of a star and a nearby binary on circular coplanar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 M. H. M. Morais , A. C. M. Correia

The precise measurement of the masses and radii of stars in eclipsing binary systems provides a window into uncertain processes in stellar evolution, especially mixing at convective boundaries. Recently, these data have been used to…

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Context: Multiple stellar systems are unique laboratories for astrophysics. Analysis of their orbital dynamics may reveal invaluable information about the physical properties of the participating stars. Unfortunately, there are only a few…

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We report a multiplanetary system found from the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1011, for which the light curve exhibits a double-bump anomaly around the peak. We find that the anomaly cannot be fully explained by the…

We investigate the rate of false planetary transit detection due to blending with eclipsing binaries. Our approach is purely empirical and is based on the analysis of the artificially blended light curves of the eclipsing binary stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Géza Kovács , Gáspár Bakos

In recent years, analyses of eclipsing binary systems have unveiled differences between the observed fundamental properties of low-mass stars and those predicted by stellar structure models. Particularly, radius and effective temperatures…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. C. Morales , J. Gallardo , I. Ribas , C. Jordi , I. Baraffe , G. Chabrier

Reanalyzing contact binaries with space-based photometric data and investigating possible parameter changes can yield accurate samples for theoretical studies. We investigated light curve solutions and fundamental parameters for twenty…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Ehsan Paki , Atila Poro