Flares and rotation of M dwarfs with habitable zones accessible to TESS planet detections

B Stelzer, M Bogner, E Magaudda - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. More than 4000 exoplanets have been discovered to date, providing the search for
a place capable of hosting life with a large number of targets. With the Transiting Exoplanet …

Eclipsing time variations in close binary systems: Planetary hypothesis vs. Applegate mechanism

M Völschow, DRG Schleicher, V Perdelwitz… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
The observed eclipsing time variations in post-common-envelope binaries (PCEBs) can be
interpreted as potential evidence for massive Jupiter-like planets, or as a result of magnetic …

Period and period change measurements for 143 SuperWASP eclipsing binary candidates near the short-period limit and discovery of a doubly eclipsing quadruple …

ME Lohr, AJ Norton, UC Kolb, PFL Maxted… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
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 …

Ultrashort-period main-sequence eclipsing systems: new observations and light-curve solutions of six NSVS binaries

DP Dimitrov, DP Kjurkchieva - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We carried out photometric and low-resolution spectral observations of six eclipsing
ultrashort-period binaries with main-sequence (MS) components. The light-curve solutions …

A dynamical analysis of the proposed circumbinary HW Virginis planetary system

J Horner, TC Hinse, RA Wittenmyer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
In 2009, the discovery of two planets orbiting the evolved binary star system HW Virginis
(HW Vir) was announced, based on systematic variations in the timing of eclipses between …

Physics of the Applegate mechanism: Eclipsing time variations from magnetic activity

M Völschow, DRG Schleicher, R Banerjee… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Since its proposal in 1992, the Applegate mechanism has been discussed as a potential
intrinsical mechanism to explain transit-timing variations in various types of close binary …

Phenomenological modelling of eclipsing system light curves

Z Mikulášek - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. The observed light curves of most eclipsing binaries and stars with transiting
planets can be described well and interpreted by current advanced physical models that …

New observations of the eclipsing binary system NY Vir and its candidate circumbinary planets

H Er, A Özdönmez, I Nasiroglu - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
As a result of various studies, it has been determined that several post-common envelope
eclipsing binaries have variations in their orbital periods. These variations are thought to be …

Magnetic activity and orbital periods of five low-mass eclipsing binaries

LY Zhang, Q Pi, YG Yang - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We report 15 new VRI light curves of five low-mass eclipsing binaries (NSVS 02502726,
NSVS 07453183, NSVS 11868841, NSVS 06550671 and NSVS 10653195) that were …

Detection of period variations of eclipsing binaries in the Catalina Sky Survey

A Papageorgiou, M Catelan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present 126 eclipsing binary candidates among 4683 Catalina Sky Surveys (CSS)
detached and semi-detached eclipsing binary systems (EBs) showing cyclic or quadratic …