Astronomical Cardiology: A Search For Heartbeat Stars Using $\textit{Gaia}$ and $\textit{TESS}$

Heartbeat stars are a subclass of binary stars with short periods, high eccentricities, and phase-folded light curves that resemble an electrocardiogram. We start from the $\textit{Gaia}$ catalogs of spectroscopic binaries and use $\textit{TESS}$ photometry to identify 112 new heartbeat star systems...

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Main Authors: Jowen Callahan, D. M. Rowan, C. S. Kochanek, K. Z. Stanek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Maynooth Academic Publishing 2025-07-01
Series:The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.33232/001c.142226
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