<i>KEPLER</i>ECLIPSING BINARY STARS. I. CATALOG AND PRINCIPAL CHARACTERIZATION OF 1879 ECLIPSING BINARIES IN THE FIRST DATA RELEASE

Prša, Andrej; Batalha, Natalie M.; Slawson, Robert W.; Doyle, Laurance R.; Welsh, William F.; Orosz, Jerome A.; Seager, Sara; Rucker, Michael; Mjaseth, Kimberly; Engle, Scott G.; Conroy, Kyle E.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Koch, David; Borucki, W. J.

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“…The percentage of EBs in our sample is high. Prša et al (2011) reported a 1.2% occurence rate of EBs among the Kepler targets. Figure 8 shows the stars that are not assigned to one of the δ Sct, γ Dor or hybrid star groups in a (T eff , log g)-diagram.…”

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“…Pigulski et al 2009) and is the subject of a dedicated paper based on Kepler data by Szabó et al (2011). Sixty-two stars are known to belong to multiple systems, including at least fourteen eclipsing binaries (EB; KIC 1432149, Hartman et al 2004;KIC 10206340, Malkov et al 2006; catalogues by Prša et al 2011;. Seven stars are only known as "(pulsating) variable stars".…”

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TheKeplercharacterization of the variability among A- and F-type stars

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Moya

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Context. The Kepler spacecraft is providing time series of photometric data with micromagnitude precision for hundreds of A-F type stars. Aims. We present a first general characterization of the pulsational behaviour of A-F type stars as observed in the Kepler light curves of a sample of 750 candidate A-F type stars, and observationally investigate the relation between γ Doradus (γ Dor), δ Scuti (δ Sct), and hybrid stars. Methods. We compile a database of physical parameters for the sample stars from the literature and new ground-based observations. We analyse the Kepler light curve of each star and extract the pulsational frequencies using different frequency analysis methods. We construct two new observables, "energy" and "efficiency", related to the driving energy of the pulsation mode and the convective efficiency of the outer convective zone, respectively. Results. We propose three main groups to describe the observed variety in pulsating A-F type stars: γ Dor, δ Sct, and hybrid stars. We assign 63% of our sample to one of the three groups, and identify the remaining part as rotationally modulated/active stars, binaries, stars of different spectral type, or stars that show no clear periodic variability. 23% of the stars (171 stars) are hybrid stars, which is a much higher fraction than what has been observed before. We characterize for the first time a large number of A-F type stars (475 stars) in terms of number of detected frequencies, frequency range, and typical pulsation amplitudes. The majority of hybrid stars show frequencies with all kinds of periodicities within the γ Dor and δ Sct range, also between 5 and 10 d −1 , which is a challenge for the current models. We find indications for the existence of δ Sct and γ Dor stars beyond the edges of the current observational instability strips. The hybrid stars occupy the entire region within the δ Sct and γ Dor instability strips and beyond. Non-variable stars seem to exist within the instability strips. The location of γ Dor and δ Sct classes in the (T eff , log g)-diagram has been extended. We investigate two newly constructed variables, "efficiency" and "energy", as a means to explore the relation between γ Dor and δ Sct stars. Conclusions. Our results suggest a revision of the current observational instability strips of δ Sct and γ Dor stars and imply an investigation of pulsation mechanisms to supplement the κ mechanism and convective blocking effect to drive hybrid pulsations. Accurate physical parameters for all stars are needed to confirm these findings.

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TheKeplercharacterization of the variability among A- and F-type stars

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“…Recently, a list of binaries in the Kepler Q1 data was made available by Prša et al (2011). Since they only focused on binaries and used dedicated methods to detect them, we compared our sample of binaries with their results.…”

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Global stellar variability study in the field-of-view of theKeplersatellite

Debosscher

Blomme

Aerts

2011

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Aims. We present the results of an automated variability analysis of the Kepler public data measured in the first quarter (Q1) of the mission. In total, about 150 000 light curves have been analysed to detect stellar variability and to identify new members of known variability classes. We also focus on detecting variables present in eclipsing binary systems, given the strong constraints on stellar fundamental parameters they can provide.Methods. The methodology we use here is based on the automated variability classification pipeline, which was previously developed for and successfully applied to the CoRoT exofield database and to the limited subset of a few thousand Kepler asteroseismology light curves. We use a Fourier decomposition of the light curves to describe their variability behaviour and use the resulting parameters to perform a supervised classification. Several improvements were made, including a separate extractor method to detect the presence of eclipses when other variability is present in the light curves. We also included two new variability classes compared to previous work: variables showing signs of rotational modulation and of activity. Results. Statistics are given on the number of variables and the number of good candidates per class. A comparison is made with results obtained for the CoRoT exoplanet data. We present some special discoveries, including variable stars in eclipsing binary systems. Many new candidate non-radial pulsators are found, mainly δ Sct and γ Dor stars. We studied those samples in more detail by using 2MASS colours, and the full classification results are made available as an online catalogue.

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“…Understanding the dependence of the fidelity and completeness of such future samples on parameters such as period, spectral type, and BEER-model score might enable using these samples to derive some statistical properties of the short-period binary population, like the period distribution, even before RV follow-up is done. Merging wellcorrected large samples of CoRoT and Kepler beaming binaries with equivalent EB samples (e.g., Prša et al 2011) might create large and well-defined samples of short-period binaries, which may shed some light on binary formation and evolution. Radial-velocity follow-up observations of beaming and eclipsing binaries will continue to play a key role in these efforts because in most cases this is the only way to measure their mass ratio and the mass of the secondary companion.…”

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BEER analysis ofKeplerand CoRoT light curves

Tal-Or

Faigler

Mazeh

2015

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Context. The BEER algorithm searches stellar light curves for the BEaming, Ellipsoidal, and Reflection photometric modulations that are caused by a short-period companion. These three effects are typically of very low amplitude and can mainly be detected in light curves from space-based photometers. Unlike eclipsing binaries, these effects are not limited to edge-on inclinations. Aims. Applying the algorithm to wide-field photometric surveys such as CoRoT and Kepler offers an opportunity to better understand the statistical properties of short-period binaries. It also widens the window for detecting intrinsically rare systems, such as shortperiod brown-dwarf and massive-planetary companions to main-sequence stars. Methods. Applying the search to the first five long-run center CoRoT fields, we identified 481 non-eclipsing candidates with periodic flux amplitudes of 0.5-87 mmag. Optimizing the Anglo-Australian-Telescope pointing coordinates and the AAOmega fiberallocations with dedicated softwares, we acquired six spectra for 231 candidates and seven spectra for another 50 candidates in a seven-night campaign. Analysis of the red-arm AAOmega spectra, which covered the range of 8342-8842 Å, yielded a radial-velocity precision of ∼1 km s −1 . Spectra containing lines of more than one star were analyzed with the two-dimensional correlation algorithm TODCOR. Results. The measured radial velocities confirmed the binarity of seventy of the BEER candidates -45 single-line binaries, 18 doubleline binaries, and 7 diluted binaries. We show that red giants introduce a major source of false candidates and demonstrate a way to improve BEER's performance in extracting higher fidelity samples from future searches of CoRoT light curves. The periods of the confirmed binaries span a range of 0.3-10 days and show a rise in the number of binaries per ΔlogP toward longer periods. The estimated mass ratios of the double-line binaries and the mass ratios assigned to the single-line binaries, assuming an isotropic inclination distribution, span a range of 0.03-1. On the low-mass end, we have detected two brown-dwarf candidates on a ∼1 day period orbit. Conclusions. This is the first time non-eclipsing beaming binaries are detected in CoRoT data, and we estimate that ∼300 such binaries can be detected in the CoRoT long-run light curves.

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KEPLERECLIPSING BINARY STARS. I. CATALOG AND PRINCIPAL CHARACTERIZATION OF 1879 ECLIPSING BINARIES IN THE FIRST DATA RELEASE

Cited by 505 publications

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TheKeplercharacterization of the variability among A- and F-type stars

TheKeplercharacterization of the variability among A- and F-type stars

Global stellar variability study in the field-of-view of theKeplersatellite

BEER analysis ofKeplerand CoRoT light curves

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