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most citedVELOcities of CEpheids (VELOCE) I. High-precision radial velocities of Cepheids

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astro-ph.SR2026

The EBLM project - XX. Absolute dynamical masses of five low-mass eclipsing binaries, and an evaluation of mass estimation methods

Adam T. Stevenson, Yasmin T. Davis, Daniel Sebastian +8

Eclipsing binaries consisting of a solar-type primary and an M dwarf secondary are key laboratories to study objects at the bottom of the main sequence. Fundamental parameters of s…

astro-ph.SR2026

The EBLM Project - XIX. The absence of radius inflation in a homogeneous analysis of 66 Northern low-mass eclipsing binaries

Yasmin T. Davis, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, David V. Martin +30

Precise and accurate measurements of host stars are crucial in the search for Earth-like exoplanets, and M-dwarfs are favourable targets in this quest. Low-mass eclipsing binaries…

astro-ph.SR2026

EBLM XVII - Tidal Synchronization and Circularization in Tight Stellar Binaries

Ritika Sethi, David V. Martin, Adrian Barker +7

Tidal interactions in close stellar binaries are central to their orbital and rotational evolution, making observational tests of theoretical predictions essential for our understa…

astro-ph.SR2026

Evidence for Sympathetic Flaring in TESS Data

Veronica Pratt, Jason R. Reeves, David V. Martin +3

Most flares on the Sun occur at random, but there is a small percentage of "sympathetic flaring" -- the triggering of one flare by another. Previously there had been no widespread…

astro-ph.SR2025

Starspots and Flares are Generally Not Correlated

Andy B. Zhang, Jason R. Reeves, David V. Martin +4

Sunspots and solar flares are two different manifestations of magnetic activity on the surface of the Sun. On the Sun, flares typically occur close to spots. In this paper we test…

astro-ph.SR2025

The EBLM Project XVIII. 3D Obliquities of Five Low-Mass Eclipsing Binaries

Becca Spejcher, David V. Martin, Jake Pandina +17

The formation of tight stellar binaries remains an unsolved problem. There is too much angular momentum in a collapsing and fragmenting protostellar cloud to form a stellar binary…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

The EBLM project XVI. Moderate spin-orbit misalignment of the low mass eclipsing binary EBLM J0021-16

Becca Spejcher, David V. Martin, Jake Pandina +15

Thousands of tight ( AU) main sequence binaries have been discovered, but it is uncertain how they formed. There is likely too much angular momentum in a collapsing, fragmentin…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 9 cited

BEBOP VII. SOPHIE discovery of BEBOP-3b, a circumbinary giant planet on an eccentric orbit

Thomas A. Baycroft, Alexandre Santerne, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud +21

Planetary systems orbiting close binaries are valuable testing grounds for planet formation and migration models. More detections with good mass measurements are needed. We present…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

TOI-1259Ab: A Warm Jupiter Orbiting a K-dwarf White-Dwarf Binary is on a Well-aligned Orbit

Hugo Veldhuis, Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Gudmundur Stefansson +21

The evolution of one member of a stellar binary into a white dwarf has been proposed as a mechanism that triggers the formation of close-in gas giant planets. The star's asymmetric…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 6 cited

The EBLM project -- XIV. TESS light curves for eclipsing binaries with very low mass companions

Jay Fitzpatrick, Pierre F. L. Maxted, Alix V. Freckelton +3

Accurate limb-darkening models are needed for accurate characterisation of eclipsing binary stars and transiting exoplanets from the analysis of their light curves. The limb-darken…

astro-ph.EP2024

Exomoons of Circumbinary Planets

Ben R Gordon, Helena Buschermöhle, Wata Tubthong +4

Confirmation of the first exomoon remains elusive. Although several exomoon candidates exist around single stars, there are currently no candidates around circumbinary planets (CBP…

astro-ph.EP2024

BEBOP VI. Enabling the detection of circumbinary planets orbiting double-lined binaries with the DOLBY method of radial-velocity extraction

Lalitha Sairam, Thomas A. Baycroft, Isabelle Boisse +13

Circumbinary planets - planets that orbit both stars in a binary system - offer the opportunity to study planet formation and orbital migration in a different environment compare t…

astro-ph.SR2024

Fundamental effective temperature measurements for eclipsing binary stars -- V. The circumbinary planet system EBLM J0608-59

P. F. L. Maxted, N. J. Miller, D. Sebastian +3

EBLM J0608-59 / TOI-1338 / BEBOP-1 is a 12th-magnitude, F9V star in an eclipsing binary with a much fainter M-dwarf companion on a wide, eccentric orbit (P=14.6 d). The binary is o…

astro-ph.SR2024

BEBOP V. Homogeneous Stellar Analysis of Potential Circumbinary Planet Hosts

Alix V. Freckelton, Daniel Sebastian, Annelies Mortier +29

Planets orbiting binary systems are relatively unexplored compared to those around single stars. Detections of circumbinary planets and planetary systems offer a first detailed vie…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 21 cited

VELOcities of CEpheids (VELOCE) I. High-precision radial velocities of Cepheids

Richard I. Anderson, Giordano Viviani, Shreeya S. Shetye +27

This first VELOCE data release comprises 18,225 high-precision RV measurements of 258 bona fide classical Cepheids on both hemispheres collected mainly between 2010 and 2022, along…

astro-ph.EP2024

The EBLM project -- XIII. The absolute dynamical masses of the circumbinary planet host TOI-1338/BEBOP-1

D. Sebastian, A. H. M. J. Triaud, M. Brogi +6

High-contrast eclipsing binaries with low mass M-dwarf secondaries are precise benchmark stars to build empirical mass-radius relationships for fully convective low-mass ($\rm M_{*…

astro-ph.EP2024

A long-period transiting substellar companion in the super-Jupiters to brown dwarfs mass regime and a prototypical warm-Jupiter detected by TESS

Matias I. Jones, Yared Reinarz, Rafael Brahm +48

We report on the confirmation and follow-up characterization of two long-period transiting substellar companions on low-eccentricity orbits around TIC 4672985 and TOI-2529, whose t…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 11 cited

The EBLM Project XII. An eccentric, long-period eclipsing binary with a companion near the hydrogen-burning limit

Yasmin T. Davis, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Alix V. Freckelton +17

In the hunt for Earth-like exoplanets it is crucial to have reliable host star parameters, as they have a direct impact on the accuracy and precision of the inferred parameters for…

astro-ph.SR2023

The EBLM Project -- From False Positives to Benchmark Stars and Circumbinary Exoplanets

P. F. L. Maxted, A. H. M. J. Triaud, D. V. Martin

The EBLM project aims to characterise very low-mass stars that are companions to solar-type stars in eclipsing binaries. We describe the history and motivation for this project, th…