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Pulsating stars in eclipsing binary systems play an important role in asteroseismology. The combination of their spectroscopic and photometric orbital solutions can be used to determine, or at least to constrain, the masses and radii of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 D. Drobek , A. Pigulski

We analyze data on pulsation amplitudes and phases for two $\beta$ Cephei stars, $\delta$ Cet and $\nu$ Eri. Str\"omgren photometry and radial velocity measurements are used simultaneously to obtain constraints on mean parameters of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Daszynska-Daszkiewicz , W. A. Dziembowski , A. A. Pamyatnykh

Pulsations and binarity are both common features of massive stars. The study of pulsating massive stars in eclipsing binary systems hold great potential for constraining stellar structure and evolution theory. However, prior to the all-sky…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 John Southworth , Dominic M. Bowman

We present a systematic investigation of $\beta$ Cephei (BCEP) stars by integrating photometric data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) with astrometric parameters from Gaia Data Release 3. Utilizing TESS's short-cadence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Xiang-dong Shi , Sheng-bang Qian , Li-ying Zhu , Lin-jia Li , Er-gang Zhao , David Mkrtichian , Farkhodjon Khamrakulov , Wen-xu Lin

We report BRITE-Constellation photometry of the beta Cep pulsator xi 1 CMa. Analysis of these data reveals a single pulsation period of 0.2095781(3) d, along with its first and second harmonics. We find no evidence for any other…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-08 Sean B. Begy , Gregg A. Wade , Gerald Handler , Andrzej Pigulski , James Sikora , Matt Shultz

We present an extensive and up-to-date catalog of Galactic Beta Cephei stars. This catalog is intended to give a comprehensive overview of observational characteristics of all known Beta Cephei stars. 93 stars could be confirmed to be Beta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anamarija Stankov , Gerald Handler

We present eleven years of high-resolution, spectroscopic observations for the star EM~Cep. EM~Cep switches between B and Be star states, as revealed by the level of H$\alpha$ emission, but spends most of its time in the B~star state.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Diana Kjurkchieva , Dragomir Marchev , T. A. A. Sigut , Dinko Dimitrov

We have carried out a three-site photometric campaign for the Beta Cephei star Theta Ophiuchi from April to August 2003. 245 hours of differential photoelectric uvy photometry were obtained during 77 clear nights. The frequency analysis of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Handler , R. R. Shobbrook , T. Mokgwetsi

Although the star itself is not He enriched, the periodicity and the variability in the UV wind lines of the pulsating B1 IV star beta Cep are similar to what is observed in magnetic He-peculiar B stars, suggesting that beta Cep is…

Classical Cepheid variable stars are crucial calibrators of the cosmic distance scale thanks to a relation between their pulsation periods and luminosities. Their archetype, {\delta} Cephei, is an important calibrator for this relation. In…

We present the results of a detailed analysis of 121 ground-based high-resolution high S/N spectroscopic measurements spread over 3 years for the Beta Cephei star Theta Ophiuchi. We discovered Theta Oph to be a triple system. In addition to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Briquet , K. Lefever , K. Uytterhoeven , C. Aerts

High-precision interferometric measurements of pulsating stars help to characterize their close environment. In 1974, a close companion was discovered around the pulsating star beta Cep using the speckle interferometry technique and…

The Gaia mission detected many new candidate $\beta$ Cephei ($\beta$ Cep) pulsators, whose variability classification has since been confirmed from Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) space photometry of the nominal mission. We aim…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 D. J. Fritzewski , M. Vanrespaille , C. Aerts , Z. Guo , D. Hey , J. De Ridder

Beta Cen is a bright Beta Cephei variable and has long been suspected to be a binary. Here we report interferometric observations with the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope at a single epoch which show the star to be a binary with components…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. G. Robertson , T. R. Bedding , C. Aerts , C. Waelkens , R. G. Marson , J. R. Barton

We present the analysis of simultaneous multicolour $uvyI_{\rm C}$ photometry and low-resolution spectroscopy for the rapidly rotating $\beta$ Cephei star SY Equ. From the photometric time series, we confirm the dominant pulsation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jadwiga Daszynska-Daszkiewicz , Andrzej Pigulski

Binary stars provide a valuable test of stellar structure and evolution, because the masses of the individual stellar components can be derived with high accuracy and in a model-independent way. In this work, we study Spica, an eccentric…

We present new V-band differential photometry and radial-velocity measurements of the unevolved 1.18-day period F+G-type double-lined eclipsing binary VZ Cep. We determine accurate values for the absolute masses, radii, and effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-30 Guillermo Torres , Claud H. Sandberg Lacy

Oscillating Algol-type eclipsing binaries (oEA) are very interesting objects that have three observational features of eclipse, pulsation, and mass transfer. Direct measurement of their masses and radii from the double-lined radial velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Jae-Rim Koo , Jae Woo Lee , Kyeongsoo Hong , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee

We determine the fundamental parameters of SPB and Beta Cep candidate stars observed by the Kepler satellite mission and estimate the expected types of non-radial pulsators by comparing newly obtained high-resolution spectra with synthetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 H. Lehmann , A. Tkachenko , T. Semaan , J. Gutiérrez , B. Smalley , M. Briquet , D. Shulyak , V. Tsymbal , P. de Cat

Context. Binary Cepheids play an important role in investigating the calibration of the classical Cepheid period-luminosity relationship. Therefore a thorough study of individual Cepheids belonging to binary systems is necessary. Aims. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 B. Cseh , G. Csörnyei , L. Szabados , B. Csák , J. Kovács , L. Kriskovics , A. Pál