Asteroseismology of Close Binary Stars: Tides and Mass Transfer

Z Guo - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The study of stellar oscillations allows us to infer the properties of stellar interiors.
Meanwhile, fundamental parameters such as mass and radius can be obtained by studying …

Heartbeat stars, tidally excited oscillations and resonance locking

J Fuller - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Heartbeat stars are eccentric binary stars in short-period orbits whose light curves are
shaped by tidal distortion, reflection and Doppler beaming. Some heartbeat stars exhibit …

Systematic search for stellar pulsators in the eclipsing binaries observed by Kepler

P Gaulme, JA Guzik - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2019 - aanda.org
Eclipsing binaries (EBs) are unique targets for measuring precise stellar properties and can
be used to constrain stellar evolution models. In particular, it is possible to measure masses …

Massive heartbeat stars from TESS-I. TESS sectors 1–16

PA Kołaczek-Szymański, A Pigulski… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Heartbeat stars are eccentric binaries that exhibit a characteristic shape of
brightness changes close to the periastron passage, primarily caused by a variable tidal …

Tidally excited oscillations in heartbeat binary stars: pulsation phases and mode identification

Z Guo, A Shporer, K Hambleton… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Tidal forces in eccentric binary stars known as heartbeat stars excite detectable oscillations
that shed light on the processes of tidal synchronization and circularization. We examine the …

Stellar rotation rates in Kepler eccentric (heartbeat) binaries obtained from r-mode signatures

H Saio, DW Kurtz - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT R-mode oscillations in a rotating star produce characteristic signatures in a
Fourier amplitude spectrum at frequencies related with the rotation frequency, which can be …

Accelerated tidal circularization via resonance locking in KIC 8164262

J Fuller, K Hambleton, A Shporer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Tidal dissipation in binary star and planetary systems is poorly understood. Fortunately,
eccentric binaries known as heartbeat stars often exhibit tidally excited oscillations …

Detailed characterization of heartbeat stars and their tidally excited oscillations

SJ Cheng, J Fuller, Z Guo, H Lehman… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Heartbeat stars are a class of eccentric binary stars with short-period orbits and
characteristic" heartbeat" signals in their light curves at periastron, caused primarily by tidal …

Pulsation phases and mode identification of tidally excited oscillations in fourteen Kepler Heartbeat Stars

MY Li, SB Qian, LY Zhu, Z Guo, WP Liao… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Tidally excited oscillations (TEOs) in Heartbeat Stars (HBSs) are an essential probe of the
internal properties of the systems, but their potential has yet to be fully exploited. Based on …

Orbital parameters of the eclipsing detached Kepler binaries with eccentric orbits

D Kjurkchieva, D Vasileva… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …