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The Kepler mission has provided high quality light curves for more than 2000 eclipsing binaries. Tertiary companions to these binaries can be detected if they transit one or both stars in the binary or if they perturb the binary enough to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-26 Jerome A. Orosz

We discuss methods for modeling eclipsing binary stars using the "physical", "simplified" and "phenomenological" models. There are few realizations of the "physical" Wilson-Devinney (1971) code and its improvements, e.g. Binary Maker,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-30 Mariia G. Tkachenko , Ivan L. Andronov

This project outlines the complete development of a variable star classification algorithm methodology. With the advent of Big-Data in astronomy, professional astronomers are left with the problem of how to manage large amounts of data, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-01 Kyle Burton Johnston

An array of large observational programs using ground-based and space-borne telescopes is planned in the next decade. The forthcoming wide-field sky surveys are expected to deliver a sheer volume of data exceeding an exabyte. Processing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-26 Kana Moriwaki , Takahiro Nishimichi , Naoki Yoshida

We present a novel automated methodology to detect and classify periodic variable stars in a large database of photometric time series. The methods are based on multivariate Bayesian statistics and use a multi-stage approach. We applied our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 J. Blomme , L. M. Sarro , F. T. O'Donovan , J. Debosscher , T. Brown , M. Lopez , P. Dubath , L. Rimoldini , D. Charbonneau , E. Dunham , G. Mandushev , D. R. Ciardi , J. De Ridder , C. Aerts

This paper proposes k-medoids clustering method to reveal the distinct groups of 1,318 variable stars in the Galaxy based on their light curves, where each light curve represents the graph of brightness of the star against time. To overcome…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-25 Soumita Modak , Tanuka Chattopadhyay , Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay

Machine Learning algorithms are good tools for both classification and prediction purposes. These algorithms can further be used for scientific discoveries from the enormous data being collected in our era. We present ways of discovering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Shraddha Surana , Yogesh Wadadekar , Divya Oberoi

The Kepler K2 mission now makes it possible to find and study a wider variety of eclipsing binary stars than has been possible to-date, particularly long-period systems with narrow eclipses. Our aim is to characterise eclipsing binary stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 P. F. L. Maxted , R. J. Hutcheon

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

There exist a variety of star-galaxy classification techniques, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we present a novel meta-classification framework that combines and fully exploits different techniques to produce a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner , Matias Carrasco Kind

We would like to investigate the information contained in our observations and to what extent each of them contributes individually to constraining the physical parameters of the system we are investigating. To do this, we present a study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. L Creevey , T. M. Brown , S. Jiménez-Reyes , J. A. Belmonte

The study of eclipsing binaries is our primary source of measured properties of normal stars, achieved through analysis of light and radial velocity curves of eclipsing systems. The study of oscillations and pulsations is increasingly vital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-14 John Southworth

The paper develops a method for detecting optical binary stars based on the use of astrometric catalogs in combination with machine learning (ML) methods. A computational experiment was carried out on the example of the HIPPARCOS mission…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-08 Mikhail V. Sazhin , Valerian Sementsov , Sergey Sorokin , Dan Lubarskiy , Alexander Raikov

We have begun a programme to obtain high-precision photometry of bright detached eclipsing binary (dEB) stars with the Wide field InfraRed Explorer (WIRE) satellite. Due to the small aperture of WIRE only stars brighter than V=6 can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Bruntt , J. Southworth

It has recently been demonstrated that deep learning has significant potential to automate parts of the exoplanet detection pipeline using light curve data from satellites such as Kepler \cite{borucki2010kepler} \cite{koch2010kepler} and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-29 Koray Aydoğan

With the availability of large-scale surveys like Kepler and TESS, there is a pressing need for automated methods to classify light curves according to known classes of variable stars. We introduce a new algorithm for classifying light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Nicholas H. Barbara , Timothy R. Bedding , Ben D. Fulcher , Simon J. Murphy , Timothy Van Reeth

This study presents a multi-task machine learning framework for simultaneous morphology classification and physical parameter estimation of eclipsing binaries using photometric light curves. We train Random Forest and XGBoost ensemble…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Burak Ulaş

Recently, machine learning methods presented a viable solution for automated classification of image-based data in various research fields and business applications. Scientists require a fast and reliable solution to be able to handle the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-07 T. Szklenár , A. Bódi , D. Tarczay-Nehéz , K. Vida , G. Marton , Gy. Mező , A. Forró , R. Szabó

The second mission of the NASA Kepler satellite, K2, has collected hundreds of thousands of lightcurves for stars close to the ecliptic plane. This new sample could increase the number of known pulsating stars and then improve our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-25 A. Le Saux , L. Bugnet , S. Mathur , S. N. Breton , R. A. Garcia