The present study is an analysis of V-band CCD observations of new W UMa contact binary OQ Dra. To carry out the analysis, Primary and secondary minimum were obtained and new epoch was calculated. The computed period of system was 0.33967 day. Light curve analysis was performed using Binary Maker 3 and PHOEBE that uses the latest Wilson-Devinney code. We obtained photometric mass ratio of q_ptm_=0.55. O'Connell effect also was seen in the fitted model. Finally, the best model was achieved by introducing 2 spots on each component.
The rate of tidal circularization is predicted to be faster for relatively cool stars with convective outer layers, compared to hotter stars with radiative outer layers. Observing this effect is challenging because it requires large and well-characterized samples that include both hot and cool stars. Here we seek evidence of the predicted dependence of circularization upon stellar type, using a sample of 945 eclipsing binaries observed by Kepler. This sample complements earlier studies of this effect, which employed smaller samples of better-characterized stars. For each Kepler binary we measure e.cos.{omega} based on the relative timing of the primary and secondary eclipses. We examine the distribution of e.cos.{omega} as a function of period for binaries composed of hot stars, cool stars, and mixtures of the two types. At the shortest periods, hot-hot binaries are most likely to be eccentric; for periods shorter than four days, significant eccentricities occur frequently for hot-hot binaries, but not for hot-cool or cool-cool binaries. This is in qualitative agreement with theoretical expectations based on the slower dissipation rates of hot stars. However, the interpretation of our results is complicated by the largely unknown ages and evolutionary states of the stars in our sample.
We measure the bulk system parameters of the seismically active, rapidly rotating {delta}-Scuti KOI-976 and constrain the orbit geometry of its transiting binary companion using a combined approach of asteroseismology and gravity-darkening light curve analysis. KOI-976 is a 1.62+/-0.2 M_{sun}_ star with a measured v sin(i) of 120+/-2 km/s and seismically induced variable signal that varies by ~0.6% of the star's total photometric brightness. We take advantage of the star's oblate shape and seismic activity to perform three measurements of its obliquity angle relative to the plane of the sky. We first apply a rotational splitting theory to the star's variable signal observed in short-cadence Kepler photometry to constrain KOI-976's obliquity angle, and then subtract off variability from that data set using the linear algorithm for significance reduction software LASR. We perform gravity-darkened fits to Kepler variability-subtracted short-cadence photometry and to Kepler's phase-folded long-cadence photometry to obtain two more measurements of the star's obliquity. We find that the binary system transits in a grazing configuration with measured obliquity values of 36{deg}+/-17{deg}, 46{deg}+/-16{deg}, and 43{deg}+/-20{deg}, respectively, for the three measurements. We perform these analyses as a way to demonstrate overcoming the challenges high-mass stars can present to transit light curve fitting and to prepare for the large number of exoplanets that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will discover orbiting A/F stars.
The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) Orion project is one of the experiments within the broader PTF survey, a systematic automated exploration of the sky for optical transients. Taking advantage of the wide (3.5{deg}x2.3{deg}) field of view available using the PTF camera installed at the Palomar 48 inch telescope, 40 nights were dedicated in 2009 December to 2010 January to perform continuous high-cadence differential photometry on a single field containing the young (7-10Myr) 25 Ori association. Little is known empirically about the formation of planets at these young ages, and the primary motivation for the project is to search for planets around young stars in this region. The unique data set also provides for much ancillary science. In this first paper, we describe the survey and the data reduction pipeline, and present some initial results from an inspection of the most clearly varying stars relating to two of the ancillary science objectives: detection of eclipsing binaries and young stellar objects.
The mass-luminosity (M-L), mass-radius (M-R), and mass-effective temperature (M-T_eff_) diagrams for a subset of galactic nearby main-sequence stars with masses and radii accurate to {<=}3% and luminosities accurate to {<=}30% (268 stars) has led to a putative discovery. Four distinct mass domains have been identified, which we have tentatively associated with low, intermediate, high, and very high mass main-sequence stars, but which nevertheless are clearly separated by three distinct break points at 1.05, 2.4, and 7M_{sun}_ within the studied mass range of 0.38-32M_{sun}_. Further, a revised mass-luminosity relation (MLR) is found based on linear fits for each of the mass domains identified. The revised, mass-domain based MLRs, which are classical (L{propto}M^{alpha}^), are shown to be preferable to a single linear, quadratic, or cubic equation representing an alternative MLR. Stellar radius evolution within the main sequence for stars with M>1M_{sun}_ is clearly evident on the M-R diagram, but it is not clear on the M-T_eff_ diagram based on published temperatures. Effective temperatures can be calculated directly using the well known Stephan-Boltzmann law by employing the accurately known values of M and R with the newly defined MLRs. With the calculated temperatures, stellar temperature evolution within the main sequence for stars with M>1M_{sun}_ is clearly visible on the M-T_eff_ diagram. Our study asserts that it is now possible to compute the effective temperature of a main-sequence star with an accuracy of ~6%, as long as its observed radius error is adequately small (<1%) and its observed mass error is reasonably small (<6%).
We present precise values of the eccentricity and periastron angle of 529 detached, eccentric, eclipsing stars from the Kepler Eclipsing Binary catalog that were determined by modeling their long cadence data. The temperatures and relative radii of their components as well as their mass ratios were calculated based on approximate values of the empirical relations of MS stars. Around one-third of the secondary components were revealed to be very late dwarfs, some of them possible brown dwarf candidates. Most of our targets fall below the envelope P(1-e^2^)^3/2^=5days. The (e,P) distribution of the known eccentric binaries exhibits a rough trend of increasing eccentricity with the period. The prolonged and continuous Kepler observations allowed us to identify 60 new highly eccentric targets with e>0.5.
As a result of a careful selection of eclipsing binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud using the OGLE-II photometric database, we present a list of 98 systems that are suitable targets for spectroscopic observations that would lead to the accurate determination of the distance to the LMC. For these systems we derive preliminary parameters combining the OGLE-II data with the photometry of MACHO and EROS surveys. In the selected sample, 58 stars have eccentric orbits. Among these stars we found fourteen systems showing apsidal motion. The data do not cover the whole apsidal motion cycle, but follow-up observations will allow detailed studies of these interesting objects.
Period change for 143 SuperWASP eclipsing binaries
Short Name:
J/A+A/549/A86
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Building on previous work, a new search of the SuperWASP archive was carried out to identify eclipsing binary systems near the short-period limit. 143 candidate objects were detected with orbital periods between 16000 and 20000s, of which 97 are new discoveries. Period changes significant at 1{sigma} or more were detected in 74 of these objects, and in 38 the changes were significant at 3{sigma} or more. The significant period changes observed followed an approximately normal distribution with a half-width at half-maximum of ~0.1s/yr. There was no apparent relationship between period length and magnitude or direction of period change. Amongst several interesting individual objects studied, 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5 is presented as a new doubly eclipsing quadruple system, consisting of a contact binary with a 19674.575s period and an Algol-type binary with a 112799.109s period, separated by 66.1AU, being the sixth known system of this type.
