Kepler is now beginning its second mission, K2, which is proving to again provide ultraprecise photometry for a large sample of eclipsing binary stars. In the 1951 light curves covering 12 days in the ...

Contact Binary: A binary star system where two stars are so close that they share a common envelope of gas. Light Curve: A graph that shows the brightness of an astronomical object over time.

The eclipsing binary IT Lib is composed of two B stars, is approximately 1 kpc above the Galactic plane, and is moving back toward the plane. Observations of the light and velocity curves presented ...

M dwarfs, especially in eclipsing binaries (EBs), could be crucial for improving our understanding of fundamental stellar parameters of low-mass stars ... binary (LMEB) located some 1,500 light ...