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Stellar ages are extremely difficult to determine and often subject to large uncertainties, especially for field low-mass stars. We plan to carry out a calibration of the decrease in high-energy emissions of low-mass GKM stars with time,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Garcés , S. Catalán , I. Ribas

We present the Kepler photometric light-variation analysis of the late-type double-lined binary system V568 Lyr that is in the field of the high metallicity old open cluster NGC 6791. The radial velocity and the high-quality short-cadence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 K. Yakut , P. P. Eggleton , B. Kalomeni , C. A. Tout , J. J. Eldridge

The stellar contents of the open clusters King 12, NGC 7788, and NGC 7790 are investigated using MegaCam images. Comparisons with isochrones yield an age < 20 Myr for King 12, 20--40 Myr for NGC 7788, and 60 -- 80 Myr for NGC 7790 based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 T. J. Davidge

NGC 7789 is a $\sim$1.6 Gyr old, populous open cluster located at $\sim$2000 pc. We characterize the blue straggler stars (BSS) of this cluster using the Ultraviolet (UV) data from the UVIT/AstroSat. We present spectral energy distributions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Kaushar Vaidya , Anju Panthi , Manan Agarwal , Sindhu Pandey , Khushboo K. Rao , Vikrant Jadhav , Annapurni Subramaniam

The young binary system HD 350731 is a noteworthy laboratory for studying early-type binaries with similar components. We present here the analysis of differential multi-color photometric and spectroscopic observations for the double-lined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 F. Soydugan , F. Alicavus , S. Bilir , E. Soydugan , C. Puskullu , T. Senyuz

We use photometric and spectroscopic observations of the detached eclipsing binaries V40 and V41 in the globular cluster NGC 6362 to derive masses, radii, and luminosities of the component stars. The orbital periods of these systems are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson , A. Dotter , M. Rozyczka , A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny

We present a new analysis of the multiple star V1200 Centauri based on the most recent observations for this system. We used the photometric observations from the Solaris network and the TESS telescope, combined with the new radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 F. Marcadon , K. G. Hełminiak , J. P. Marques , R. Pawłaszek , P. Sybilski , S. K. Kozłowski , M. Ratajczak , M. Konacki

The field of the metal-rich open cluster NGC 6253 has been surveyed in a search for variable stars. A total of 25 new variables were detected, 14 of which are bright stars with 13<V<15 mag. This domain was not covered in an earlier work by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-30 J. Kaluzny , M. Rozyczka , W. Pych , I. B. Thompson

The binary fractions of open and globular clusters yield powerful constraints on their dynamical state and evolutionary history. We apply publicly available Bayesian analysis code to a $UBVRIJHK_{S}$ photometric catalog of the old open…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Roger E. Cohen , Aaron M. Geller , Ted von Hippel

In this paper we have examined the age and internal dynamics of the young binary LMC cluster NGC 1850 using BV CCD images and echelle spectra of 52 supergiants. Isochrone fits to a BV color-magnitude diagram revealed that the primary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 P. Fischer , D. L. Welch , M. Mateo

An extensive grid of metal-rich isochrones utilizing the latest available input physics has been calculated for comparison with the old, metal-rich open cluster NGC 6791. The isochrones have been simultaneously fit to BV and VI color…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Brian Chaboyer , Elizabeth M. Green , James Liebert

We present our findings based on a detailed analysis for the binaries of the Hyades, in which the masses of the components are well known. We fit the models of components of a binary system to the observations so as to give the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Yildiz , K. Yakut , H. Bakis , A. Noels

A significant fraction of stars in both the Galactic field and stellar clusters are members of binary systems. Understanding their properties is therefore essential for a comprehensive view of stellar structure, evolution, and cluster…

Atmospheric modeling is used to build synthetic spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for the individual components of the speckle interferometric binary system HD375. These synthetic SEDs are combined together for the entire system and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-25 M. A. Al-Wardat , Yu. Yu. Balega , V. V. Leushion , A. A. Taani , N. A. Yusuf , K. S. Al-Waqfi , S. Masda

Eclipsing binary stars provide highly accurate measurements of the fundamental physical properties of stars. They therefore serve as stringent tests of the predictions of evolutionary models upon which most stellar age determinations are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-17 Keivan G. Stassun , Leslie Hebb , Mercedes Lopez-Morales , Andrej Prsa

We have discovered a new, near-equal mass, eclipsing M dwarf binary from the Next Generation Transit Survey. This system is only one of 3 field age ($>$ 1 Gyr), late M dwarf eclipsing binaries known, and has a period of 1.74774 days,…

We present an analysis of the detached eclipsing binaries V44 and V54 belonging to the globular cluster M55. For V54 we obtain the following absolute parameters: $M_p=0.726\pm 0.015\,M_\odot$, $R_p=1.006\pm 0.009\,R_\odot$, $L_p=1.38\pm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-26 J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson , A. Dotter , M. Rozyczka , W. Pych , S. M. Rucinski , G. S. Burley

Detached eclipsing binaries are very useful objects for calibrating theoretical stellar models and checking their predictions. Detached eclipsing binaries in open clusters are particularly important because of the additional constraints on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 John Southworth

One of the most effective ways to test stellar evolutionary models is to measure dynamical masses for binary systems at a range of temperatures. In this paper, we present orbits of three young K+M binary systems in Taurus (Hubble~4, FF~Tau,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Aaron C Rizzuto , Trent J. Dupuy , Michael J. Ireland , Adam L. Kraus

This paper describes our study of the astrophysics of individual components in close pre-main-sequence binaries. We observed both stars in 17 systems, located in 4 nearby star forming regions, using low-resolution (R=760), infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Prato , T. P. Greene , M. Simon