Search Results - "MAZEH, T"

Photometric detection of non-transiting short-period low-mass companions through the beaming, ellipsoidal and reflection effects in Kepler and CoRoT light curves by Faigler, S., Mazeh, T.

“…We present a simple algorithm, BEER, to search for a combination of the BEaming, Ellipsoidal and the Reflection/heating periodic modulations, induced by…”
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Measuring the rotation period distribution of field M dwarfs with Kepler by McQuillan, A., Aigrain, S., Mazeh, T.

“…We have analysed 10 months of public data from the Kepler space mission to measure rotation periods of main-sequence stars with masses between 0.3 and 0.55 M…”
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Study of the mass-ratio distribution of spectroscopic binaries – II. The boundaries of the brown-dwarf desert as seen with the APOGEE spectroscopic binaries by Shahaf, S, Mazeh, T

“…ABSTRACT Analysis of APOGEE DR12 stellar radial velocities by Troup et al. affirmed the existence of the well-known brown-dwarf desert (BDD). They detected a…”
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Triage of astrometric binaries – how to find triple systems and dormant black hole secondaries in the Gaia orbits by Shahaf, S, Mazeh, T, Faigler, S, Holl, B

“…ABSTRACT Preparing for the expected wealth of Gaia detections, we consider here a simple algorithm for classifying unresolved astrometric binaries with…”
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Correcting systematic effects in a large set of photometric light curves by Tamuz, O., Mazeh, T., Zucker, S.

“…We suggest a new algorithm to remove systematic effects in a large set of light curves obtained by a photometric survey. The algorithm can remove systematic…”
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Triage of the Gaia DR3 astrometric orbits – I. A sample of binaries with probable compact companions by Shahaf, S, Bashi, D, Mazeh, T, Faigler, S, Arenou, F, El-Badry, K, Rix, H W

“…Abstract In preparation for the release of the astrometric orbits of Gaia, Shahaf et al. (2019) proposed a triage technique to identify astrometric binaries…”
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BEER ANALYSIS OF KEPLER AND CoRoT LIGHT CURVES. II. EVIDENCE FOR SUPERROTATION IN THE PHASE CURVES OF THREE KEPLER HOT JUPITERS by Faigler, S, Mazeh, T

“…We analyzed the Kepler light curves of four transiting hot Jupiter systems-KOI-13, HAT-P-7, TrES-2, and Kepler-76, which show BEaming, Ellipsoidal, and…”
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Testing the recovery of stellar rotation signals from Kepler light curves using a blind hare-and-hounds exercise by Aigrain, S., Llama, J., Ceillier, T., Chagas, M. L. das, Davenport, J. R. A., García, R. A., Hay, K. L., Lanza, A. F., McQuillan, A., Mazeh, T., de Medeiros, J. R., Nielsen, M. B., Reinhold, T.

“…We present the results of a blind exercise to test the recoverability of stellar rotation and differential rotation in Kepler light curves. The simulated light…”
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COD: an algorithm for shape reconstruction of transiting celestial bodies through topological optimization by Nachmani, G, Mazeh, T, Sochen, N

“…ABSTRACT We introduce a novel algorithm, COD – Compact Opacity Distribution, for shape reconstruction of a celestial body that has been observed to occult a…”
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fBLS – a fast-folding BLS algorithm by Shahaf, S, Zackay, B, Mazeh, T, Faigler, S, Ivashtenko, O

“…ABSTRACT We present fBLS – a novel fast-folding technique to search for transiting planets, based on the fast-folding algorithm (FFA), which is extensively…”
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BEER analysis of Kepler and CoRoT light curves – V. eBEER: extension of the algorithm to eccentric binaries by Engel, M, Faigler, S, Shahaf, S, Mazeh, T

“…ABSTRACT We present an extension of the BEER model for eccentric binaries – eBEER, approximating the BEaming, Ellipsoidal, and Reflection effects by harmonic…”
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ULTRASAT: A Wide-field Time-domain UV Space Telescope by Shvartzvald, Y., Waxman, E., Gal-Yam, A., Ofek, E. O., Ben-Ami, S., Berge, D., Kowalski, M., Bühler, R., Worm, S., Rhoads, J. E., Arcavi, I., Maoz, D., Polishook, D., Stone, N., Trakhtenbrot, B., Ackermann, M., Aharonson, O., Birnholtz, O., Chelouche, D., Guetta, D., Hallakoun, N., Horesh, A., Kushnir, D., Mazeh, T., Nordin, J., Ofir, A., Ohm, S., Parsons, D., Pe’er, A., Perets, H. B., Perdelwitz, V., Poznanski, D., Sadeh, I., Sagiv, I., Shahaf, S., Soumagnac, M., Tal-Or, L., Santen, J. Van, Zackay, B., Guttman, O., Rekhi, P., Townsend, A., Weinstein, A., Wold, I.

“…Abstract The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be launched to geostationary orbit in 2027. It will carry a telescope with an…”
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Hubble Space Telescope transmission spectroscopy of the exoplanet HD189733b: high-altitude atmospheric haze in the optical and near-ultraviolet with STIS by Sing, D. K, Pont, F, Aigrain, S, Charbonneau, D, Désert, J.-M, Gibson, N, Gilliland, R, Hayek, W, Henry, G, Knutson, H, des Etangs, A. Lecavelier, Mazeh, T, Shporer, A

“…ABSTRACT We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) optical and near-ultraviolet transmission spectra of the transiting hot Jupiter HD189733b, taken with the…”
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Triage of the Gaia DR3 astrometric orbits. II. A census of white dwarfs by Shahaf, S, Hallakoun, N, Mazeh, T, Ben-Ami, S, Rekhi, P, El-Badry, K, Toonen, S

“…ABSTRACT The third data release of Gaia was the first to include orbital solutions assuming non-single stars. Here, we apply the astrometric triage technique…”
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Study of the mass-ratio distribution of spectroscopic binaries – I. A novel algorithm by Shahaf, S., Mazeh, T., Faigler, S.

“…Abstract We have developed a novel direct algorithm to derive the mass-ratio distribution (MRD) of short-period binaries from an observed sample of…”
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Gaia spectroscopic orbits validated with LAMOST and GALAH radial velocities by Bashi, D, Shahaf, S, Mazeh, T, Faigler, S, Dong, S, El-Badry, K, Rix, H W, Jorissen, A

“…ABSTRACT The recently published Gaia DR3 catalogue of $181\, 327$ spectroscopic binaries (SB) includes the Keplerian elements of each orbit but not the…”
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BEER ANALYSIS OF KEPLER AND CoRoT LIGHT CURVES. IV. DISCOVERY OF FOUR NEW LOW-MASS WHITE DWARF COMPANIONS IN THE KEPLER DATA by Faigler, S., Kull, I., Mazeh, T., Kiefer, F., Latham, D. W., Bloemen, S.

“…ABSTRACT We report the discovery of four short-period eclipsing systems in the Kepler light curves, consisting of an A-star primary and a low-mass white dwarf…”
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KEPLER-413B: A SLIGHTLY MISALIGNED, NEPTUNE-SIZE TRANSITING CIRCUMBINARY PLANET by Kostov, V B, McCullough, P R, Carter, J A, Deleuil, M, Diaz, R F, Fabrycky, D C, Hebrard, G, Hinse, T C, Mazeh, T, Orosz, J A, Tsvetanov, Z I, Welsh, W F

“…We report the discovery of a transiting, R sub(p) = 4.347 + or - 0.099R sub([+ in circle]), circumbinary planet (CBP) orbiting the Kepler K + M eclipsing…”
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The eShel Spectrograph: A Radial-velocity Tool at the Wise Observatory by Engel, M., Shahaf, S., Mazeh, T.

“…The eShel, an off-the-shelf, fiber-fed echelle spectrograph ( R 10,000 ), was installed on the 1 m telescope at the Wise observatory in Israel. We report the…”
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Hubble Space Telescope transmission spectroscopy of the exoplanet HD 189733b: high-altitude atmospheric haze in the optical and near-ultraviolet with STIS by Sing, D. K., Pont, F., Aigrain, S., Charbonneau, D., Désert, J.-M., Gibson, N., Gilliland, R., Hayek, W., Henry, G., Knutson, H., des Etangs, A. Lecavelier, Mazeh, T., Shporer, A.

“…We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) optical and near-ultraviolet transmission spectra of the transiting hot Jupiter HD 189733b, taken with the repaired…”
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