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Following an approach developed by Paczy\'nski & Stanek, we derive a distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by comparing red clump stars from the Hipparcos catalog with the red clump stars observed in two fields in the LMC that were…

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Published measurements of distances to detached eclipsing binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud combine stellar surface areas (in absolute units) determined from photometric light and radial velocity curves with surface brightnesses from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. S. B. Wyithe , R. E. Wilson

In this study we investigate the calibration of surface brightness--color (SBC) relations based solely on eclipsing binary stars. We selected a sample of 35 detached eclipsing binaries with trigonometric parallaxes from Gaia DR1 or…

We present a study of simultaneous determination of mean distance and reddening to the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using the two photometric band RR Lyrae data. Currently available largest number of highly accurate and precise light curve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Sukanta Deb

The cosmic distance scale largely depends on distance determinations to Local Group galaxies. In this sense, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is a key rung to better constrain the cosmic distance ladder. A project was started in 1999 to firmly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Vilardell , I. Ribas , C. Jordi , E. L. Fitzpatrick , E. F. Guinan

Thirty eight long-period (P>10 days), apparently contact binary stars discovered by the OGLE-II project in the SMC appear to be Beta Lyrae-type systems with ellipsoidal variations of the cool components dominating over eclipse effects in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Slavek M. Rucinski , Carla Maceroni

We present a complete set of physical parameters for three early-type eclipsing binary systems in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC): OGLE LMC-ECL-17660, OGLE LMC-ECL-18794, and HV 2274, together with the orbital solutions. The first and…

Detached eclipsing double line spectroscopic binaries are accurate distance indicators. They can be used for the direct determination of distances to globular clusters in which such systems can be identified. The results of major…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Kaluzny , I. Thompson , W. Krzeminski , A . Olech , W. Pych , B. Mochejska

We present a data-driven method to estimate absolute magnitudes for O- and B-type stars from the LAMOST spectra, which we combine with {\it Gaia} parallaxes to infer distance and binarity. The method applies a neural network model trained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Mao-Sheng Xiang , Hans-Walter Rix , Yuan-Sen Ting , Eleonora Zari , Kareem El-Badry , Hai-Bo Yuan , Wen-Yuan Cui

We present a reanalysis of the light curves of HD 23642, a detached eclipsing binary star in the Pleiades open cluster, with emphasis on a detailed error analysis. We compare the masses and radii of the two stars to predictions of stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Southworth , P. F. L. Maxted , B. Smalley

New CCD photometric observations of fourteen short-period low-mass eclipsing binaries (LMB) in the photometric filters I, R and V were used for the light curve analysis. There still exists a discrepancy between radii as observed and those…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-21 David Korda , Petr Zasche , Marek Wolf , Hana Kucakova , Katerina Honkova , Jan Vrastil

Aims. The aim is to derive accurate stellar distances and extinctions for young stars of our survey in the Galactic anticenter direction using the Str\"omgren photometric system. This will allow a detailed mapping of the stellar density and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Maria Monguió , Francesca Figueras , Preben Grosbøl

The 222~000 I-band light curves of variable stars detected by the OGLE-II survey in the direction of the Galactic Bulge have been searched for eclipsing binaries (EBs). A previously developed code to analyze lightcurve shapes and identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. T. Groenewegen

(abridged) New photometry and spectroscopy for more than a hundred RR Lyrae stars in two fields located close to the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are used to derive new accurate estimates of the average magnitude, the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Clementini , R. G. Gratton , A. Bragaglia , E. Carretta , L. Di Fabrizio , M. Maio

The observations of eclipsing binary systems are of great importance in astrophysics, as they allow direct measurements of fundamental stellar parameters. By analysing high-quality space-based observations with ground-based photometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 N. Alan , F. Alicavus , M. Alpsoy

We present the first results of a project aiming to trace the spatial structure of the Milky Way using detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) as distance indicators. A sample of DEBs from the OGLE-II catalogue was selected and their near…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 K. G. Hełminiak , J. Devor , D. Minniti , P. Sybilski

Determining star cluster distances is essential to analyse their properties and distribution in the Galaxy. In particular it is desirable to have a reliable, purely photometric distance estimation method for large samples of newly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Anne S. M. Buckner , Dirk Froebrich

The precise measurement of the masses and radii of stars in eclipsing binary systems provides a window into uncertain processes in stellar evolution, especially mixing at convective boundaries. Recently, these data have been used to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Thomas Constantino , Isabelle Baraffe

Nearby detached double-lined eclipsing binaries with most accurate data were studied and 290 systems were found with at least one main-sequence component having a metallicity $0.008\leq Z\leq 0.040$. Stellar parameters, light ratios, Gaia…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Z. Eker , F. Soydugan , S. Bilir , V. Bakis , F. Alicavus , S. Ozer , G. Aslan , M. Alpsoy , Y. Kose

CPD-54 810 is a double-lined detached eclipsing binary containing two mid-F type dwarfs on an eccentric 26-day orbit. We perform a combined analysis of the extensive photometry obtained by the TESS space mission along with previously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 N. J. Miller , P. F. L. Maxted , D. Graczyk , T. G. Tan , J. Southworth