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We have discovered a detached pair of white dwarfs (WDs) with a 12.75 min orbital period and a 1,315 km/s radial velocity amplitude. We measure the full orbital parameters of the system using its light curve, which shows ellipsoidal…

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We report the discovery of ZTF J2243+5242, an eclipsing double white dwarf binary with an orbital period of just $8.8$ minutes, the second known eclipsing binary with an orbital period less than ten minutes. The system likely consists of…

Eclipsing binaries serve as a valuable source of stellar masses and radii that inform stellar evolutionary models and provide insight into additional astrophysical processes. The exquisite light curves generated by space-based missions such…

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Compact Hierarchical Triples (CHT) are systems with the tertiary star orbiting the inner binary in an orbit shorter than 1000 days. CHT with an eclipsing binary as its inner binary can help us extract a multitude of information about all…

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We have conducted a programme to determine the fundamental parameters of a substantial number of eclipsing binaries of spectral types O and B in the Small Magellanic Cloud. New spectroscopic data, obtained with the two-degree-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 R. W. Hilditch , I. D. Howarth , T. J. Harries

Stellar fundamental properties (masses, radii, effective temperatures) can be extracted from observations of eclipsing binary systems with remarkable precision, often better than 2%. Such precise measurements afford us the opportunity to…

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Detached eclipsing binary stars provide a robust one-step distance determination to nearby galaxies. As a by-product of Galactic microlensing searches, catalogs of thousands of variable stars including eclipsing binaries have been produced…

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The population statistics of binary stars are an important output of star formation models. However populations of wide binaries evolve over time due to interactions within a system's birth environment and the unfolding of wide,…

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We present the observational results of this kind of rare object 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5, for which the doubly eclips- ing feature had been detected previously from the SuperWASP photometric archive. Individual PSF photometry for two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jae-Rim Koo , Jae Woo Lee , Byeong-Cheol Lee , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Kyeongsoo Hong , Dong-Joo Lee , Soo-Chang Rey

$\zeta$ Phoenicis is a bright binary system containing B6V and B8V stars. It has deep total and annular eclipses, a slightly eccentric orbit with a period of 1.669 d, apsidal motion and a third body on a wider orbit. The Transiting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 John Southworth

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

Detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) allow for the possibility of precise characterization of its stellar components. They offer a unique opportunity to derive their physical parameters in a near-model-independent way for a number of systems…

An eclipsing binary with an orbital period of 62 days has been discovered in HD 328058 and studied by UBVIcHalpha photometry. Combining the results of light curve modelling with existing stellar models and known B3-shell spectral type of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Norbert Hauck

The orbit and physical parameters of the double-lined eclipsing binary V570 Per, discovered by the Hipparcos satellite, are derived with formal errors better than 1% using high resolution Echelle spectroscopy and B, V photoelectric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Marrese , U. Munari , R. Sordo , S. Dallaporta , A. Siviero , T. Zwitter

The eclipsing and double-lined spectroscopic binary system V453 Cygni consists of two early B-type stars, one of which is nearing the terminal age main sequence and one which is roughly halfway through its main sequence lifetime. Accurate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Pavlovski , J. Southworth

Approximately 150 low-mass white dwarfs, with masses below 0.4Msun, have been discovered. The majority of these low-mass WDs are observed in binary systems as they cannot be formed through single-star evolution within the Hubble time. In…

Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS observations are presented of six brown dwarf candidates in the Pleiades open cluster. One of them, namely CFHT-Pl-18, is clearly resolved as a binary with an angular separation of 0".33. The very low density…

We report the discovery and characterisation of a new M-dwarf binary, with component masses and radii of M1 = 0.244 -0.003/+0.003 Msun, R1 = 0.261 -0.009/+0.006 Rsun, M2 = 0.179 -0.001/+0.002 Msun, R2 = 0.218 -0.011/+0.007 Rsun, and orbital…

We present new spectroscopic observations of the early type, double-lined eclipsing binary V446\,Cep. The radial velocities and the photometric data obtained by $Hipparcos$ were analysed for deriving the astrophysical parameters of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-09 Ö. Çakırlı , C. Ibanoglu , E. Sipahi , A. Frasca , G. Catanzaro

We present a detailed light curve analysis of publicly available V band observations of 62 binary stars, mostly contact binaries, obtained by the All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS)-3 project between 2000 and 2009. Eclipsing binaries are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sukanta Deb , Harinder P. Singh