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Massive stars play a crucial role in the cosmic dynamics and chemical evolution of galaxies, however our understanding of their evolution and properties remains limited. An accurate determination of stellar parameters is essential for…

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We present a classification of the light curve morphologies of eclipsing binary systems observed by ASAS-SN based on their light curve images. The data of 16500 eclipsing systems having three different classes (detached Algol type, $\beta$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Burak Ulas

The primary aim of this research is to evaluate several convolutional neural network-based object detection algorithms for identifying oscillation-like patterns in light curves of eclipsing binaries. This involves creating a robust…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Burak Ulaş , Tamás Szklenár , Róbert Szabó

Eclipsing binary star systems provide the most accurate method of measuring both the masses and radii of stars. Moreover, they enable testing tidal synchronization and circularization theories, as well as constraining models of stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-04 Jonathan Devor

The discovery of circumbinary planets (CBPs) has advanced our understanding of planet formation and dynamical evolution in complex environments. However, the population of such planets remains small, leading their underlying physical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Benjamin D. R. Davies , David J. A. Brown , Samuel Gill , Jenni R. French

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) presents us with an unprecedented volume of space-based photometric observations that must be analyzed in an efficient and unbiased manner. With at least $\sim1,000,000$ new light curves…

The Kepler mission has provided a treasure trove of eclipsing binaries (EBs), observed at extremely high photometric precision, nearly continuously for several years. We are carrying out a survey of ~100 of these EBs to derive dynamical…

Research into light curves from stars (temporal variation of brightness) has completely changed how exoplanets are discovered or characterised. This study including star light curves from the Kepler dataset as a way to discover exoplanets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Krishna Chamarthy

The accuracy of theoretical mass, radius and effective temperature values for M-dwarf stars is an active topic of debate. Differences between observed and theoretical values have raised the possibility that current theoretical stellar…

We have developed a fully-automated pipeline for systematically identifying and analyzing eclipsing binaries within large datasets of light curves. The pipeline is made up of multiple tiers which subject the light curves to increasing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan Devor

The rapid expansion of exoplanet survey missions such as Kepler, TESS, and the upcoming PLATO mission has generated massive light-curve datasets that challenge traditional vetting pipelines. We introduce a hybrid deep-learning framework…

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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

We present results of our spectroscopic observations of nine detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs), selected from the $Kepler$ Eclipsing Binary Catalog, that only show one set of spectral lines. Radial velocities (RVs) were calculated from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-14 K. G. Hełminiak , N. Ukita , E. Kambe , S. K. Kozłowski , P. Sybilski , M. Ratajczak , H. Maehara , M. Konacki

We present the results of an analysis aimed at testing the accuracy and precision of the PARSEC v1.2S library of stellar evolution models, in a Bayesian framework, to infer stellar parameters. We mainly employ the online DEBCat catalogue by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-22 Carlos del Burgo , Carlos Allende Prieto

I calculate the physical properties of 32 transiting extrasolar planet and brown dwarf systems from existing photometric observations and measured spectroscopic parameters. The systems studied include fifteen observed by CoRoT, ten by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 John Southworth

We present the characterization of 5 new short-period low-mass eclipsing binaries from the WFCAM Transit Survey. The analysis was performed by using the photometric WFCAM J-mag data and additional low- and intermediate-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Patricia Cruz , Marcos Diaz , Jayne Birkby , David Barrado , Brigitta Sipöcz , Simon Hodgkin

We present 370 candidate eclipsing binaries (EBs), identified from ~510,000 short cadence TESS light curves. Our statistical criteria identify 5,105 light curves with features consistent with eclipses (~1% of the initial sample). After…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Erin L. Howard , James R. A. Davenport , Kevin R. Covey

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission measured light from stars in ~85% of the sky throughout its two-year primary mission, resulting in millions of TESS 30-minute cadence light curves to analyze in the search for…

We present an extension of the BEER model for eccentric binaries - eBEER, approximating the BEaming, Ellipsoidal and Reflection effects by harmonic series of the Keplerian elements of their orbit. As such, it can be a tool for fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 M. Engel , S. Faigler , S. Shahaf , T. Mazeh

In this paper we reanalyze the extended ETV curves of the formerly identified triple star candidates and many other $Kepler$ EBs. Besides the confirmations of the former findings and/or the improvements of the triple systems' orbital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 T. Borkovits , S. A. Rappaport , T. Mitnyan , I. B. Bíró , I. Csányi , E. Forgács-Dajka , A. Forró , T. Hajdu , B. Seli , J. Sztakovics , A. Göblyös , A. Pál