3 papers
astro-ph.SR2020
Tidally Trapped Pulsations in a close binary star system discovered by TESS
G. Handler, D. W. Kurtz, S. A. Rappaport +12
It has long been suspected that tidal forces in close binary stars could modify the orientation of the pulsation axis of the constituent stars. Such stars have been searched for, b…
astro-ph.SR2018
A window into Sct stellar interiors: Understanding the eclipsing binary system TT Hor
Margaret Streamer, Michael J. Ireland, Simon J. Murphy +1
The semi-detached eclipsing binary system, TT Hor, has a Sct primary component (accretor) accreting mass from the secondary star (donor). We fit an eclipsing binary model from…
astro-ph.EP2016
Pluto's atmosphere from the 29 June 2015 ground-based stellar occultation at the time of the New Horizons flyby
B. Sicardy, J. Talbot, E. Meza +65
We present results from a multi-chord Pluto stellar occultation observed on 29 June 2015 from New Zealand and Australia. This occurred only two weeks before the NASA New Horizons f…