Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1778722 New Astronomy 2016 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

•Stellar parameters of four eclipsing Kepler binaries were determined.•The out-of-eclipse light variability of KIC ∼ 5080652, KIC ∼ 9236858 and KIC ∼ 11975363 was attributed to spot activity.•Several microflares of KIC 11975363 were detected.

We carried out light curve solutions of four detached binaries with circular orbits, observed by Kepler. As a result their orbital inclinations, temperatures and relative stellar radii were determined. We estimated also their global parameters on the base of the obtained solutions and empirical relation “temperature, luminosity” for MS stars. The out-of-eclipse light curves of KIC 5080652, KIC 9236858 and KIC 11975363 reveal a trend the bigger amplitudes to correspond to single-waved shape while the two-waved shape to be inherent to the smaller amplitudes. This type of variability was attributed to gradually transition between state with two almost opposite cool spots and state with bigger in size polar spot. We detected also several microflares of KIC 11975363 with amplitudes of 0.002–0.003 mag.

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