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We present a new few-parameter phenomenological model of light curves of eclipsing binaries and stars with transiting planets that is able to fit the observed light curves with the accuracy better than 1\% of their amplitudes. The model can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-27 Zdeněk Mikulášek , Miloslav Zejda , Theodor Pribulla , Martin Vaňko , Shen-Bang Qian , Li-Ying Zhu

Detached eclipsing binaries are the primary tool used to measure precise masses and radii of stars. In our previous paper estimating the parameters of more than 30,000 detached eclipsing binaries, we identified 766 eclipsing binaries with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 D. M. Rowan , T. Jayasinghe , K. Z. Stanek , C. S. Kochanek , Todd A. Thompson , B. J. Shappee , T. W. -S. Holoien , J. L. Prieto , W. Giles

We describe a new neural-net based light curve classifier and provide it with documentation as a ready-to-use tool for the community. While optimized for identification and classification of eclipsing binary stars, the classifier is general…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Paegert , K. G. Stassun , D. M. Burger

We focus on the automated classification of eclipsing binary stars using deep learning methods to handle the vast data generated by large-scale photometric sky surveys. These surveys produce extensive datasets that are impractical for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Bedri Keskin , Özgür Baştürk

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

Based on luminosity contributions, we develop a spectroscopic modelling method to derive atmospheric parameters of component stars in binary systems. The method is designed for those spectra of binaries which show double-lined features due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Xiang-Lei Chen , A-Li Luo , Jian-Jun Chen , Rui Wang , Xiao-Bin Zhang , Wen Hou , Bo Qiu , Fang Zuo

Theories of stellar convective core overshoot can be examined through analysis of pulsating stars. Better accuracy can be achieved by obtaining external constraints such as those provided by observing pulsating stars in eclipsing binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Padraic Odesse , Catherine Lovekin

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

Detached eclipsing double line spectroscopic binaries offer an opportunity to measure directly stellar parameters: mass, luminosity, radius, as well as the distance. The only non-trivial step is the need to determine surface brightness of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bohdan Paczynski

I present a brief summary of three different types of binary star - astrometric, spectroscopic and eclipsing - and tabulate the properties of these systems that can be determined directly from observations. Eclipsing binary stars are the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 John Southworth

We present an application of computer vision methods to classify the light curves of eclipsing binaries (EB). We have used pre-trained models based on convolutional neural networks ($\textit{ResNet50}$) and vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Štefan Parimucha , Maksim Gabdeev , Yanna Markus , Martin Vaňko , Pavol Gajdoš

In the last decade, over 7000 eclipsing binaries have been discovered in the Local Group through various variability surveys. Measuring fundamental parameters of these eclipsing binaries has become feasible with 8 meter class telescopes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-18 A. Z. Bonanos

We present a new algorithm -- Eclipsing Binary Automated Solver (EBAS), to analyse lightcurves of eclipsing binaries. The algorithm is designed to analyse large numbers of lightcurves, and is therefore based on the relatively fast EBOP…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Omer Tamuz , Tsevi Mazeh , Pierre North

High-precision and long-duration light curves from space telescopes have revolutionized the fields of asteroseismology and binary star systems. In particular, the number of pulsating systems in eclipsing binaries has drastically increased…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 John Southworth , Dominic Bowman

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

The mass discrepancy problem, observed in high-mass stars within eclipsing binaries, highlights systematic differences between dynamical and evolutionary mass estimates, challenging the accuracy of stellar evolution models. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Nadya Serebriakova , Andrew Tkachenko , Cole Johnston , Krešimir Pavlovski , Conny Aerts

We describe an automated method for assigning the most probable physical parameters to the components of an eclipsing binary, using only its photometric light curve and combined colors. With traditional methods, one attempts to optimize a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan Devor , David Charbonneau

High-precision stellar mass and radius measured directly from binaries can effectively calibrate the stellar models. However, such a database containing full spectral types and large range of metallicity is still not fully established. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jianping Xiong , Chao Liu , Jiao Li , Jiadong Li , Bo Zhang , Xiaodian Chen , Changqing Luo , Zihuang Cao , Yongheng Zhao

In modern astronomy, the quantity of data collected has vastly exceeded the capacity for manual analysis, necessitating the use of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to assist scientists with the most labor-intensive tasks. AI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Marcin Wrona , Andrej Prša

We present a novel approach for classifying stars as binary or exoplanet using deep learning techniques. Our method utilizes feature extraction, wavelet transformation, and a neural network on the light curves of stars to achieve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Aman Kumar , Sarvesh Gharat