New low mass ratio contact binaries in the Catalina Sky Survey

PE Christopoulou, E Lalounta… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present the identification and photometric analysis of 30 new low mass ratio (LMR)
totally eclipsing contact binaries found in Catalina Sky Survey data. The LMR candidates are …

Planet Hunters TESS IV: a massive, compact hierarchical triple star system TIC 470710327

NL Eisner, C Johnston, S Toonen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery and analysis of a massive, compact, hierarchical triple system (TIC
470710327) initially identified by citizen scientists in data obtained by NASA's Transiting …

Detecting Biosignatures in the Atmospheres of Gas Dwarf Planets with the James Webb Space Telescope

CL Phillips, J Wang, S Kendrew… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Exoplanets with radii between those of Earth and Neptune have stronger surface gravity
than Earth, and can retain a sizable hydrogen-dominated atmosphere. In contrast to gas …

Estimating the absolute parameters of W UMa-type binary stars using Gaia DR3 parallax

A Poro, M Hedayatjoo, M Nastaran, M Nourmohammad… - New Astronomy, 2024 - Elsevier
The accuracy of absolute parameters' estimation in contact binary systems is important for
investigating their evolution and solving some challenges. The Gaia DR3 parallax is one of …

Understanding the flare emission in CF Tucanae using TESS

K Sriram, A Vijaya, D Lahiri… - Publications of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Chromospherically active binaries are important in the understanding of the origins of optical
flares. Since studies of flares in binaries are important, we perform a detailed analysis of 11 …

Photometric Studies of EV Cnc and AH Cnc in the Open Cluster M67

K Sriram, D Lahiri, A Vijaya - Research in Astronomy and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Contact binaries at various stages of evolution unveil various operating mechanisms that
drive them. We report the photometric and period variation analysis of two contact binaries …

The first photometric investigation and spectroscopic analysis of two contact binaries: ASAS J124343+ 1531.7 and LINEAR 2323566

Q Xia, R Michel, K Li, J Higuera - Publications of the Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The multi-color passband CCD light curves of ASAS J124343+ 1531.7 and LINEAR
2323566 were first obtained by the 0.84 m Ritchey–Chrétien telescope with follow up …

Optical and X-ray studies of marginal contact binary RW Dor using TESS and XMM-Newton Observatories

K Sriram, GM Rani - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Marginal short-period contact binaries are important to understand as they pose a different
physical scenario than the predicted theoretical model based on the thermal relaxation …

Evidence of a Third Body and Photometric Solutions of a High Temperature Marginal Contact Binary CW Aqr

A Vijaya, K Sriram - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Marginal contact binary systems are an important class of binary systems in exploited by
astronomers to understand various astrophysical phenomena as they bridge both semi …