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Recent studies indicate that the physical properties of eclipsing binaries can be extracted from the derivatives of their light curves. A classification scheme for the derivatives of light curves would be helpful for identifying key…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Shinjirou Kouzuma

We propose a simple method for estimating the fill-out factor of overcontact binary systems using the derivatives of light curves. We synthesized 74,431 sample light curves, covering the typical parameter space of overcontact binaries. On…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Shinjirou Kouzuma

The photometric mass ratios of eclipsing binaries are usually estimated by light-curve modeling with an iterative method. We propose a new method for estimating the photometric mass ratio of an overcontact binary using the derivatives of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Shinjirou Kouzuma

This is the second paper that proposes a simple method for estimating mass ratios using the derivatives of light curves for overcontact binaries. In the first paper (Kouzuma 2023, ApJ, 958, 84) , we presented a method to estimate the mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Shinjirou Kouzuma

We present an image classification algorithm using deep learning convolutional neural network architecture, which classifies the morphologies of eclipsing binary systems based on their light curves. The algorithm trains the machine with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Burak Ulas

Abstract abridged. Eclipsing binary systems provide the opportunity to measure the fundamental parameters of their component stars in a stellar-model-independent way. This makes them ideal candidates for testing and calibrating theories of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-12 Luc W. IJspeert , Andrew Tkachenko , Cole Johnston , Andrej Prša , Mark A. Wells , Conny Aerts

Light curves of microlensing events involving stellar binaries and planetary systems can provide information about the orbital elements of the system due to orbital modulations of the caustic structure. Accurately measuring the orbit in…

We present a detailed V-band photometric light curve modeling of 30 eclipsing binaries using the data from Pietrukowicz et al. (2009) collected with the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT) of diameter 8-m. The light…

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

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

We present an automated classification of 2165 \textit{Kepler} eclipsing binary (EB) light curves that accompanied the second \textit{Kepler} data release. The light curves are classified using Locally Linear Embedding, a general nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Gal Matijevic , Andrej Prsa , Jerome A. Orosz , William F. Welsh , Steven Bloemen , Thomas Barclay

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

Continuing work initiated in an earlier publication [Sato and Asada, PASJ, 61, L29 (2009)], we consider light curves influenced by the orbital inclination and eccentricity of a companion in orbit around a transiting extrasolar planet (in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Masanao Sato , Hideki Asada

We examine optical V-band light curves in luminous eclipsing black hole X-ray binaries, using a supercritical accretion/outflow model that is more realistic than the formerly used ones. In order to compute the theoretical light curve in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Ken-ya Watarai , Jun Fukue

We present a technique to determine the orbital and physical parameters of eclipsing eccentric Wolf-Rayet + O-star binaries, where one eclipse is produced by the absorption of the O-star light by the stellar wind of the W-R star. Our method…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Perrier , J. Breysacher , G. Rauw

The mutual orbital alignment in multiple planetary systems is an important parameter for understanding their formation. There are a number of elaborate techniques to determine the alignment parameters using photometric or spectroscopic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-29 Holger M. Müller , Panagiotis Ioannidis , Jürgen H. M. M. Schmitt

Eclipsing binaries provide one of the most direct mechanisms for measuring stellar properties such as mass and radius, but historically, determining these properties has been non-trivial and computationally prohibitive. As such, only a…

The observed light curves of most eclipsing binaries and stars with transiting planets can be well described and interpreted by current advanced physical models which also allow for the determination of many physical parameters of eclipsing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Zdeněk Mikulášek

A standard binary microlensing event lightcurve allows just two parameters of the lensing system to be measured: the mass ratio of the companion to its host, and the projected separation of the components in units of the Einstein radius.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-03-17 Matthew T. Penny , Shude Mao , Eamonn Kerins

Extreme mass-ratio contact binaries with a high degree of overcontact may be in the late evolutionary stages of the contact phase. Detailed photometric analyses and orbital period studies of those systems can provide invaluable information…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Eric Broens
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