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Eclipsing binaries are vital for directly determining stellar parameters without reliance on models or scaling relations. Spectroscopically derived parameters of detached and semi-detached binaries allow us to determine component masses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Rachel A. Matson , Douglas R. Gies , Zhao Guo , Stephen J. Williams

Microlensing is one of the most promising methods of reconstructing the stellar mass function down to masses even below the hydrogen-burning limit. The fundamental limit to this technique is the presence of unresolved binaries, which can in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Scott Gaudi , Andrew Gould

By cross-matching the eclipsing binary catalog from TESS with that from LAMOST MRS, semi-detached eclipsing binaries with radial velocities coverage spanning more than 0.3 phases were authenticated. The absolute parameters for these systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Yajuan Lei , Guiping Zhou , Liang Wang , Guangwei Li , Kai Li , Tuan Yi

Low-mass stars in eclipsing binary systems show radii larger and effective temperatures lower than theoretical stellar models predict for isolated stars with the same masses. Eclipsing binaries with low-mass components are hard to find due…

Massive stars play a crucial role in the cosmic dynamics and chemical evolution of galaxies, however our understanding of their evolution and properties remains limited. An accurate determination of stellar parameters is essential for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Pablo Martín-Ravelo , Roberto Gamen , Julia I. Arias , André-Nicolas Chené , Rodolfo H. Barbá

Spectroscopic and eclipsing binary systems offer the best means for determining accurate physical properties of stars, including their masses and radii. The data available for low-mass stars have yielded firm evidence that stellar structure…

Eclipsing binaries provide a unique opportunity to determine fundamental stellar properties. In the era of wide-field cameras and all-sky imaging surveys, thousands of eclipsing binaries have been reported through light curve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Chien-Hsiu Lee , Chien-Cheng Lin

The detection of O- and B-type stars with extremely low-mass companions is very important for understanding the formation and evolution of binary stars. However, their finding remains a challenge because the low-mass components in such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Linfeng Chang , Shengbang Qian , Lei Zang , Fuxing Li

As part of a larger program aimed at better quantifying the uncertainties in stellar computations, we attempt to calibrate the extent of convective overshooting in low to intermediate mass stars by means of eclipsing binary systems. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-11 Richard J. Stancliffe , Luca Fossati , Jean-Claude Passy , Fabian R. N. Schneider

We report results from a search for Galactic high-mass eclipsing binaries. The photometric monitoring campaign was performed in Sloan $r$ and $i$ with the robotic twin refractor RoBoTT at the Universit\"atssternwarte Bochum in Chile and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 F. Pozo Nuñez , R. Chini , A. Barr Domínguez , Ch. Fein , M. Hackstein , Pietrzyński , Grzegorz , M. Murphy

We present an analysis of a new, detached, double-lined eclipsing binary system with K7 Ve components, discovered as part of the University of New South Wales Extrasolar Planet Search. The object is significant in that only 6 other binary…

A question that continues to perplex astronomers is the formation of tight stellar binaries. There is too much angular momentum in a collapsing and fragmenting protostellar cloud to form a stellar binary in situ with a separation less than…

Semidetached binaries, distinguished by their mass transfer phase, play a crucial role in elucidating the physics of mass transfer within interacting binary systems. To identify these systems in eclipsing binary light curves provided by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Xu Ding , KaiFan Ji , QiYuan Cheng , ZhiMing Song , JinLiang Wang , XueFen Tian , ChuanJun Wang

Observations of binaries have traditionally provided the means for ascertaining stellar masses. Here, we use the published data on 8 pre-main-sequence pairs to gauge the accuracy of our own, recently calculated, evolutionary tracks (Palla &…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Palla , Steven W. Stahler

Precise measurements of stellar parameters are required in order to develop our theoretical understanding of stellar structure. These measurements enable errors and uncertainties to be quantified in theoretical models and constrain the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Z. Jennings , J. Southworth , P. F. L. Maxted , L. Mancini

Accurate determinations of masses and radii in binary stars, along with estimates of the effective temperatures, metallicities, and other properties, have long been used to test models of stellar evolution. As might be expected,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Guillermo Torres

Numerous investigations on the fundamental properties of low-mass stars using eclipsing binaries indicate a strong discrepancy between theory and observations that is still awaiting explanation. Current models seem to predict radii for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 I. Ribas , J. Morales , C. Jordi , I. Baraffe , G. Chabrier , J. Gallardo

Results of an archival survey are presented using B-band imaging of the eastern spiral arm of M31. Focusing on the eclipsing binary star population, a matched-filter technique has been used to identify 280 binary systems. Of these, 127…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ian Todd , Don Pollacco , Ian Skillen , D. M. Bramich , Steve Bell , Thomas Augusteijn

Eclipsing binaries (EBs) play an important astrophysical role in studying stellar properties and evolution. By analyzing photometric data in the LAMOST Medium-Resolution Survey field, RA: $23^h$$01^m$$51.00^s$, Dec:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Jing-Yi Wang , Kai Li , Xiang Gao , Di-Fu Guo , Li-Heng Wang , Dong-Yang Gao , Ling-Zhi Li , Ya-Ni Guo , Xing Gao , Guo-You Sun

We present the results of our spectroscopic and photometric analysis of two newly discovered low-mass detached eclipsing binaries found in the All-Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) catalogue: ASAS J093814-0104.4 and ASAS J212954-5620.1. Using the…