scholarly journals Temperature and Distance Dependence of Tidal Circularization in Close Binaries: A Catalog of Eclipsing Binaries in the Southern Hemisphere Observed by the TESS Satellite

2021 ◽  
Vol 912 (2) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Anders B. Justesen ◽  
Simon Albrecht
2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Y. Zhu ◽  
S. B. Qian ◽  
E.-G. Zhao ◽  
E. Fernández Lajús ◽  
Z.-T. Han

The sdB-type close binaries are believed to have experienced a common-envelope phase and may evolve into cataclysmic binaries (CVs). About 10% of all known sdB binaries are eclipsing binaries consisting of very hot subdwarf primaries and low-mass companions with short orbital periods. The eclipse profiles of these systems are very narrow and deep, which benefits the determination of high precise eclipsing times and makes the detection of small and close-in tertiary bodies possible. Since 2006 we have monitored some sdB-type eclipsing binaries to search for the close-in substellar companions by analyzing the light travel time effect. Here some progresses of the program are reviewed and the formation of sdB-type binary is discussed.


1982 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 199-204
Author(s):  
J.L. Halbwachs

AbstractStatistical models for binaries as a vhole were selected; then statistical properties of close binaries -the proportions of spectroscopic and eclipsing binaries and the distributions of the K velocities and of the depths of eclipse- were computed for each model.


2004 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 239-246
Author(s):  
C. Maceroni

AbstractThis paper presents some results of the analysis of the eclipsing binaries samples that came out as by-products of the OGLE microlensing surveys. These experiments monitored millions of stars in the direction of the galactic bulge (OGLE-I), and of the Small Magellanic Cloud (OGLE-II). Their completeness allowed the discovery of rare and interesting systems. An example is a new group of long period binaries in the SMC with presumably a giant component in contact with the critical lobe, which dominates the systemic light variation (“β -contacts”). These systems obey a period-luminosity-color relation and could be used as an auxiliary, but independent, tool for distance determination. Another very interesting object, for its implications in the studies of angular momentum loss processes by magnetic braking and of stellar activity, is the system of shortest known period with M dwarf components, discovered by OGLE-I, BW3 V38, that is the target of a spectroscopic follow-up. The perspectives for close binary star research in view of future space missions, such as COROT and Eddington are briefly discussed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (S325) ◽  
pp. 274-277
Author(s):  
B. Debski ◽  
S. Zola

AbstractWe developed a method that allows to classify the light curves of eclipsing binaries of the W UMa type (EW) with respect to their intrinsic variability. The algorithm measures several features of light curves, such as the amplitude of the O’Connell effect, the separation and location of maxima brightness as well as depths of the minima in subsequent orbital periods. This method is capable of distinguishing systems with presumed magnetic activity present from these without it, as well as recognizing systems with starspots migration and those with other types of intrinsic variability manifestation. The classification is done in an automatic way without a time consuming, visual inspection of light curves.


1991 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 479-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Koch

By the end of the XXth General Assembly in Baltimore, the number of Commission 42 members had increased to 305. Subsequently, D. Ya. Martynov has died and 11 new members have been added.The last Draft Report showed a healthy rate of growth in citations of Sections 117 (Close Binaries), 119 (Eclipsing Binaries), and 120 (Spectroscopic Binaries) of Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts from 1982 through 1986. The number of these citations has continued the mean trend with 976 and 1015 references for 1987 and 1988, respectively. As the Past-President remarked, these counts are considerable underestimates of the total literature concerning close binaries (hereafter, CB’s). A personal appreciation of the total corpus of work is that quality remains very high and content has become much richer as more and more associations have been made with generalized stellar studies. In part, this may be traced to the everincreasing awareness by the general community of the experiments in stellar evolution which Nature runs in CB’s.


2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (T27A) ◽  
pp. 251-253
Author(s):  
Alvaro Giménez ◽  
Steven D. Kawaler ◽  
Conny Aerts ◽  
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard ◽  
Michael Breger ◽  
...  

Division V deals with all aspects of stellar variability, either intrinsic or due to eclipses by its companion in a binary system. In the case of intrinsic stellar variability the analysis of pulsating stars, surface inhomogeneities, stellar activity and oscillations are considered. For close binaries, classical detached eclipsing binaries are studied as well as more interacting systems, like contact and semi-detached binaries, or those with compact components, like cataclysmic variables and X-ray binaries, including the physics of accretion processes.


2005 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 446-446
Author(s):  
Edward F. Guinan

Photographic surveys of the Magellanic Clouds and the M31 carried decades ago discovered ~200 close binaries. In most cases the photographic light curves are good enough only to identify the stars as close (mostly eclipsing) binaries and to estimate orbital periods and binary type. Except for a few cases, little useful information may be obtained from these stars except to be reassured that eclipsing binary (EB) systems are present in other galaxies. However a major advance occurred with the advent of high quantum efficient CCDs. Because of this an explosion in the number of known extragalactic binaries occurred during the 1990s as offshoots of photometric microlensing surveys such as EROS, MACHO, and OGLE. Now over 10 000 extragalactic EBs have been identified. Also, photometric surveys of M31 and M33 (e.g. DIRECT) are discovering many more 19-20th mag eclipsing/close binaries. Over the next decade it is expected that ~1 million new binary systems will be identified in these galaxies. In this overview I will discuss recent advances and future expectations in the studies of extragalactic binaries


1986 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 463-464
Author(s):  
George W. Wolf ◽  
Janet T. Kern

Approximately 375 classification spectra of 130 Southern Hemisphere eclipsing binary stars were obtained between 1978 and 1982 at Mt. John University Observatory, New Zealand using the 0.6 meter reflector, and at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile using the 0.4, 0.6, 0.9, and 1.0 meter telescopes. The spectra have been classified by one of us (GWW) using a grid of standards obtained on the various spectrographs at each of the observatories. Since many of the spectra were taken during primary and secondary minima, it has been possible in many cases to classify separately each component in the binaries.


1985 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 401-402
Author(s):  
G. Giuricin ◽  
F. Mardirossian ◽  
M. Mezzetti

We have rediscussed the synchronism between rotation and revolution in close binaries by an inspection of the published projected rotational velocities V sin i of about 250 early-type (from 0 to F5) eclipsing and double-lined spectroscopic binaries. Corrections of the V sin i - values (which are mainly taken from the catalog of Uesugi and Fukuda, 1982) for the aspect effect is straightforward for the eclipsing binaries with analyzed light-curves; in the other cases we have estimated the value of the orbital inclination angle i from the primary's minimum mass M1 sin3 i on the assumption that its mass follows Straižys and Kuriliené's (1981) mass-spectrum relations for different luminosity classes. For the components of non-eclipsing binaries, for which the absolute radii are not directly known, we have adopted values of the absolute radii in accordance with Straižys and Kuriliené's (1981) radius-spectrum relations for different luminosity classes. By using our estimates of the radii, for each component we have evaluated the synchronized velocity Vk (corresponding to the mean orbital angular velocity) and the pseudosynchronized velocity Ve, which corresponds to a synchronization with the instantaneous orbital angular velocity at periastron of an eccentric orbit; in close binaries with appreciably eccentric orbits synchronization is attained with V/Vk>1 and it is probably quickly reached at periastron (Hut 1981).


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