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Time-series Spectroscopy of the Pulsating Eclipsing Binaries using BOES

  • Koo, Jae-Rim;Lee, Jae Woo;Hong, Kyeongsoo;Kim, Seung-Lee;Lee, Chung-Uk;Park, Jang-Ho
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.60.2-60.2
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    • 2016
  • Oscillating Algol-type eclipsing binaries (oEA) are very interesting objects that have three observational features of eclipse, pulsation, and mass transfer. Direct measurement of their masses and radii from the double-lined radial velocity (RV) data and photometric light curves would be the most essential for understanding their evolutionary process and for performing the asteroseismological study. However, only handful oEA stars were studied in detail. To advance this subject, we have been obtaining high-resolution spectra for several oEA stars using Bohyunsan Optical Echelle Spectrograph (BOES). In this presentation, we present our results such as the accurate absolute parameters and evolutionary states for each object, based on the simultaneous analyses of the light and RV curves.

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NEW VARIABLE STARS IN THE REGION OF THE OPEN CLUSTER M35 (NGC 2168) (산개성단 M35(NGC 2168) 영역의 새로운 변광성)

  • Jeon, Young-Beom;Lee, Hye-Ran
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.167-176
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    • 2010
  • In the region of the intermediate open cluster M35 (NGC 2168), the time-series of V CCD images was taken for 12 nights from December 18, 2007 to September 25, 2010. From this observation, we detected 22 variable stars including 15 new ones. They are 6 $\delta$ Scuti, a Cepheid, an RR Lyrae, 9 eclipsing binaries and 5 semi-long periodic and/or slow irregular type variable stars. For the V photometry of the $\delta$2 Scuti stars, the multi-frequency analysis was performed using the Discrete Fourier Transform and the linear least-square fitting.

POORLY STUDIED ECLIPSING BINARIES IN THE FIELD OF DO DRACONIS: V454 DRA AND V455 DRA

  • Kim, Yonggi;Andronov, Ivan L.;Andrych, Kateryna D.;Yoon, Joh-Na;Han, Kiyoung;Chinarova, Lidia L.
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.53 no.2
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2020
  • We report an analysis of two poorly studied eclipsing binary stars, GSC 04396-00605 and GSC 04395-00485 (recently named V455 Dra and V454 Dra, respectively). Photometric data of the two stars were obtained using the 1-m Korean telescope of the LOAO operated by KASI while monitoring the cataclysmic variable DO Dra in the frame of the Inter-Longitude Astronomy (ILA) project. We derived periods of 0.434914 and 0.376833 days as well as initial epochs JD 2456480.04281 and JD 2456479.0523, respectively, more accurate than previously published values by factors 9 and 6. The phenomenological characteristics of the mean light curves were determined using the New Algol Variable (NAV) algorithm. The individual times of maxima/minima (ToM) were determined using the newly developed software MAVKA, which outputs accurate parameters using "asymptotic parabola" approximations. The light curves were approximated using phenomenological and physical models. In the NAV algorithm, the phenomenological parameters are well determined. We derived physical parameters using the Wilson-Devinney model. In this model, the best-fit parameters are highly correlated, thus some of them were fixed to reasonable values. For both systems, we find evidence for the presence of a cool spot and estimate its parameters. Both systems can be classified as overcontact binaries of EW type.

KMTNet time-series photometry of the doubly eclipsing candidate stars in the LMC

  • Hong, Kyeongsoo;Lee, Jae Woo;Koo, Jae-Rim;Kim, Seung-Lee;Lee, Chung-Uk;Kim, Dong-Jin
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.44.2-44.2
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    • 2017
  • Multiple stellar systems composed of triple, double+double or double+triple, etc. are very rare and interesting objects for understanding the star formation and dynamical evolution. However, only six systems have been found to be a doubly eclipsing quadruple, which consists of two eclipsing binaries, and four systems to be a triply eclipsing hierarchical triple. Recently, the 15 doubly eclipsing multiple candidates located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have been reported by the OGLE project. In order to examine whether these candidates are real multiple systems with eclipsing features, we performed a high-cadence time-series photometry for the LMC using the KMTNet (Korea Microlensing Telescope Network) 1.6 m telescopes in three site (CTIO, SAAO, and SSO) during 2016-2017. The KMTNet data will help reveal the photometric properties of the multiple-star candidates. In this paper, we present the VI light curves and their preliminarily analyses for 12 of the 15 eclipsing systems in the LMC, based on our KMTNet observations and the OGLE-III survey data from 2001-2009.

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A Search for Exoplanets in Short-Period Binary Star Systems

  • Kaitchuck, Ronald;Turner, Garrison;Childers, Joseph
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.41-45
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    • 2012
  • This paper reports the progress of a search for exoplanets with S-type orbits in short-period binary star systems. The selected targets have stellar orbital periods of just a few days. These systems are eclipsing binaries so that exoplanet transits, if planets exist, will be highly likely. We report the results for seven binary star systems.

CONTACT BINARIES IN THE FIELD OF STELLAR CLUSTERS

  • LIANG, LIU;SHENGBANG, QIAN;LIYING, ZHU
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.197-200
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    • 2015
  • Several contact binary systems in four stellar clusters or their fields are reported here; NGC7789-V12, EP Cep and ES Cep in NGC188, NGC104-V95 and V710 Mon. Their multiple light curves were analyzed by the 2010 version of the W-D code, and their physical parameters were obtained.

Optical Observations with Milliarcsecond Resolution of Stars, Their Environments and Companions

  • Sanborn, Jason J.;Zavala, Robert T.
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.63-67
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    • 2012
  • Observations with milliarsecond resolution using the Navy Optical Interferometer have been obtained for a number of stellar systems which include high-mass binaries, eclipsing binaries, and radio stars. These observations also reveal the previously unseen companions in single-lined spectroscopic binaries via directly measured flux ratios. We will present examples of published and ongoing research efforts of these systems to illustrate how an optical interferometer contributes to our knowledge of stars, their environment, and companions. These studies include a conclusive revealing of the previously unseen companion in the single-lined binary ${\Phi}$ Herculis, the direct determination of orbital parameters in the wide and close orbits of Algol, and revealing the orbit of ${\beta}$ Lyrae with spatially resolved images of the $H{\alpha}$ emission.