Weighing stars from birth to death: mass determination methods across the HRD

A Serenelli, A Weiss, C Aerts, GC Angelou… - The Astronomy and …, 2021 - Springer
The mass of a star is the most fundamental parameter for its structure, evolution, and final
fate. It is particularly important for any kind of stellar archaeology and characterization of …

Interrelated main-sequence mass–luminosity, mass–radius, and mass–effective temperature relations

Z Eker, V Bakış, S Bilir, F Soydugan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Absolute parameters of 509 main-sequence stars selected from the components of detached
eclipsing spectroscopic binaries in the solar neighbourhood are used to study mass …

Main-sequence effective temperatures from a revised mass-luminosity relation based on accurate properties

Z Eker, F Soydugan, E Soydugan, S Bilir… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
The mass-luminosity (ML), mass-radius (MR) and mass-effective temperature ($ M-T_ {eff} $)
diagrams for a subset of galactic nearby main-sequence stars with masses and radii …

Empirical relations for the accurate estimation of stellar masses and radii

A Moya, F Zuccarino, WJ Chaplin… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we have taken advantage of the most recent accurate stellar characterizations
carried out using asteroseismology, eclipsing binaries and interferometry to evaluate a …

Standard stellar luminosities: what are typical and limiting accuracies in the era after Gaia?

Z Eker, F Soydugan, S Bilir… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Methods of obtaining stellar luminosities (L) have been revised and a new concept, standard
stellar luminosity, has been defined. In this paper, we study three methods:(i) a direct …

Fundamentals of Stars: A Critical Look at Mass-Luminosity Relations and Beyond

Z Eker, F Soydugan, S Bilir - Physics and Astronomy Reports, 2024 - dergipark.org.tr
Developments on various relations among stellar variables such as the main sequence
empirical mass-luminosity (MLR), massradius (MRR) and mass-effective temperature (MTR) …

Revisiting the mass-and radius–luminosity relations for FGK main-sequence stars

J Fernandes, R Gafeira, J Andersen - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Scaling relations are very useful tools for estimating unknown stellar quantities.
Within this framework, eclipsing binaries are ideal for this goal because their mass and …

Stellar mass and radius estimation using artificial intelligence

A Moya, RJ López-Sastre - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Estimating stellar masses and radii for most stars is a challenge, but it is critical to
know them for many different astrophysical fields, such as exoplanet characterization or …

On the mass estimation for FGK stars: comparison of several methods

FJG Pinheiro, JM Fernandes, MS Cunha… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Stellar evolutionary models simulate well binary stars when individual stellar mass and
system metallicity are known. The mass can be derived directly from observations only in the …

Statistical analysis of Algol‐type eclipsing binaries with stable mass transfer

SH Negu, SB Tessema - Astronomische Nachrichten, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we have investigated the stellar parameters of Algol‐type eclipsing binaries in
the range of primary and secondary masses between 0.2 and 8 M⊙, which were obtained …