{"title":"Impossible moons - transit timing effects that cannot be due to exomoon","authors":"D. Kipping, A. Teachey","doi":"10.2298/saj2001025k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/saj2001025k","url":null,"abstract":"Exomoons are predicted to produce transit timing variations (TTVs) upon\u0000 their host planet. Unfortunately, so are many other astrophysical phenomena\u0000 - most notably other planets in the system. In this work, an argument of\u0000 reductio ad absurdum is invoked, by deriving the transit timing effects that\u0000 are impossible for a single exomoon to produce. Our work derives three key\u0000 analytic tests. First, one may exploit the fact that a TTV signal from an\u0000 exomoon should be accompanied by transit duration variations (TDVs), and\u0000 that one can derive a TDV floor as a minimum expected level of variability.\u0000 Cases for which the TDV upper limit is below this floor can thus be killed as\u0000 exomoon candidates. Second, formulae are provided for estimating whether\u0000 moons are expected to be \"killable\" when no TDVs presently exist, thus\u0000 enabling the community to estimate the value of deriving TDVs beforehand.\u0000 Third, a TTV ceiling is derived, above which exomoons should never be able\u0000 to produce TTV amplitudes. These tools are applied to a catalog of TTVs and\u0000 TDVs for two and half thousand Kepler Objects of Interest, revealing over\u0000 two hundred cases that cannot be due to a moon - remarkably then a large\u0000 fraction of the known TTV amplitudes are consistent with being caused by a\u0000 moon. These tests are also applied to the exomoon candidate Kepler-1625b i,\u0000 which comfortably passes the criteria. These simple analytic results should\u0000 provide a means of rapidly rejecting putative exomoons and streamlining the\u0000 search for satellites.","PeriodicalId":48878,"journal":{"name":"Serbian Astronomical Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44044774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global parameters of the newly-discovered W UMa stars WISEJ004327.7+722407 and WISEJ234557.8+510456","authors":"D. Kjurkchieva, S. Ibryamov","doi":"10.2298/saj2000019k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/saj2000019k","url":null,"abstract":"Photometric observations in g' and i' bands of the newly-discovered W UMa stars WISEJ004327.7+722407 and WISEJ234557.8+510456 are presented. The two targets are with shallow-contact configurations and their components are of G{K spectral type. We found that WISEJ004327.7+722407 is of A subtype while WISEJ234557.8+510456 is of W subtype. The different light levels at the quadratures were reproduced by cool spots on the bigger components. The procedure for calculation of the global parameters of eclipsing binaries by light curve solutions and GAIA distances was refined for stars with deep eclipses. The obtained global parameters reveal that at least one of the components of WISEJ004327.7+722407 and WISEJ234557.8+510456 is oversized, overluminous and too hot compared with an MS star with the same mass.","PeriodicalId":48878,"journal":{"name":"Serbian Astronomical Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68674348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life, educational and scientific activities of professor Mirjana Vukicevic-Karabin (1933-2020)","authors":"I. Vince, O. Atanacković","doi":"10.2298/saj2001049v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/saj2001049v","url":null,"abstract":"We present a short biography and brief review of contributions of professor Mirjana Vukicevic-Karabin to the development of astrophysics education at the University of Belgrade and to the research in physics of the Earth ionosphere and the Sun. The bibliography of her papers is given as well. We hope that the review of the two aspects of her work will elucidate her important role in the development of astrophysics in our country","PeriodicalId":48878,"journal":{"name":"Serbian Astronomical Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68674682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cosmic time for multi-component universe","authors":"D. Branković","doi":"10.2298/saj2001015b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/saj2001015b","url":null,"abstract":"We determined Weierstrass canonical form of cosmic time formula in the cases of four-component and some three-component universe, assuming the ?CDM model. In all other cases, we discussed analytical solutions for the cosmic time formula.","PeriodicalId":48878,"journal":{"name":"Serbian Astronomical Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68674456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The evolution of massive binary systems","authors":"J. Petrovic","doi":"10.2298/saj2001001p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/saj2001001p","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of massive stars in close binary systems is significantly different from single star evolution due to a series of interactions between the two stellar components. Such massive close binary systems are linked to various astrophysical phenomena, for example Wolf-Rayet stars, supernova type Ib and Ic, X-ray binaries and gamma-ray bursts. Also, the emission of gravitational waves, recently observed by the LIGO-Virgo detectors, is associated with mergers in binary systems containing compact objects, relics of massive stars - black holes and neutron stars. Evolutionary calculations of massive close binary systems were performed by various authors, but many aspects are not yet fully understood. In this paper, the main concepts of massive close binary evolution are reviewed, together with the most important parameters that can influence the final outcome of the binary system evolution, such as rotation, magnetic fields, stellar wind mass loss and mass accretion efficiency during interactions. An extensive literature overview of massive close binary models in the light of exciting observations connected with those systems is presented.","PeriodicalId":48878,"journal":{"name":"Serbian Astronomical Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68674367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Vujičić, R. Pavlović, D. Milosevic, B. Djordjevic, S. Randjić, Dijana Stojić
{"title":"Classification of asteroid families with artificial neural networks","authors":"D. Vujičić, R. Pavlović, D. Milosevic, B. Djordjevic, S. Randjić, Dijana Stojić","doi":"10.2298/saj2001039v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/saj2001039v","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an artificial neural network for classification of asteroids into families. The data used for artificial neural network training and testing were obtained by the Hierarchical Clustering Method (HCM). We have shown that an artificial neural networks can be used as a validation method for the HCM on families with a large number of members.","PeriodicalId":48878,"journal":{"name":"Serbian Astronomical Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68674601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relationship between the `limiting' Yarkovsky drift speed and asteroid families' Yarkovsky V-shape","authors":"I. Milic-Zitnik","doi":"10.2298/saj2000025m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/saj2000025m","url":null,"abstract":"The Yarkovsky effect is an important force to consider in order to understand the long-term dynamics of asteroids. This non-gravitational force affects the orbital elements of objects revolving around a source of heat, especially their semi-major axes. Following the recently defined `limiting' value of the Yarkovsky drift speed at 7x10-5 au/Myr in Milic Zitnik (2019) (below this value of speed asteroids typically jump quickly across the mean motion resonances), we decided to investigate the relation between the asteroid family Yarkovsky V-shape and the `limiting' Yarkovsky drift speed of asteroid's semi-major axes. We have used the known scaling formula to calculate the Yarkovsky drift speed (Spoto et al. 2015) in order to determine the inner and outer `limiting' diameters (for the inner and outer V-shape borders) from the `limiting' Yarkovsky drift speed. The method was applied to 11 asteroid families of different taxonomic classes, origin type and age, located throughout the Main Belt. Here, we present the results of our calculation on relationship between asteroid families' V-shapes (crossed by strong and/or weak mean motion resonances) and the `limiting' diameters in the (a, 1=D) plane. Our main conclusion is that the `breakpoints' in changing V-shape of the very old asteroid families, crossed by relatively strong mean motion resonances on both sides very close to the parent body, are exactly the inverse of `limiting' diameters in the a versus 1=D plane. This result uncovers a novel interesting property of asteroid families' Yarkovsky V-shapes.","PeriodicalId":48878,"journal":{"name":"Serbian Astronomical Journal","volume":"56 1","pages":"25-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68674356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photometric and spectroscopic study of five pre-main sequence stars in the vicinity of NGC 7129","authors":"E. Semkov, S. Ibryamov, S. Peneva","doi":"10.2298/SAJ1999039S","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/SAJ1999039S","url":null,"abstract":"We present results from long-term optical photometric and spectroscopic\u0000 observations of five pre-main sequence stars, located in the vicinity of the\u0000 bright nebula NGC 7129. We obtained UBVRI photometric observations in the\u0000 field centered on the star V391 Cep, north-west of the bright nebula NGC\u0000 7129. Our multicolor CCD observations spanned the period from February 1998\u0000 to November 2016. At the time of our photometric monitoring, a total of\u0000 thirteen medium-resolution optical spectra of the stars were obtained. The\u0000 results from our photometric study show that all stars exhibit strong\u0000 variability in all optical passbands. Long-term light curves of the five\u0000 stars indicate the typical classical T Tauri star variations in brightness\u0000 with large amplitudes. We did not find any reliable periodicity in the\u0000 brightness variations of all five stars. The results from spectral\u0000 observations showed that all studied stars can be classified as classical T\u0000 Tauri stars with rich emission line spectra and strong variability in\u0000 profiles and intensity of emission lines.","PeriodicalId":48878,"journal":{"name":"Serbian Astronomical Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49345971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Habitability of galaxies and the application of merger trees in astrobiology","authors":"N. Stojković, B. Vukotić, M. Ćirković","doi":"10.2298/SAJ1998025S","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/SAJ1998025S","url":null,"abstract":"Galaxies represent the main form of organization of matter in our universe.\u0000 Therefore, they are of obvious interest for the new multidisciplinary field\u0000 of astrobiology. In particular, to study habitability of galaxies represents\u0000 one of the main emerging challenges of theoretical and numerical\u0000 astrobiology. Its theoretical underpinnings are, however, often confused and\u0000 vague. Here we present a systematic attempt to list and categorize major\u0000 causal factors playing a role in emergent habitability of galaxies.\u0000 Furthermore, we argue that the methodology of cosmological merger trees is\u0000 particularly useful in delineating what are systematic and lawful\u0000 astrobiological properties of galaxies at present epoch vs. those which are\u0000 product of historical contingency and, in particular, interaction with wider\u0000 extragalactic environment. Employing merger trees extracted from\u0000 cosmological N-body simulations as a new and promising research method for\u0000 astrobiology has been pioneered by Stanway et al. (2018). We analyse the\u0000 general issue of applicability of merger trees and present preliminary\u0000 results on a set of trees extracted from the Illustris Project. In a sense,\u0000 this approach is directly complementary to using large-scale cosmological\u0000 simulations to study habitable zones of individual galaxies with high\u0000 mass/spatial resolution; taken together, they usher a new era of synergy and\u0000 synthesis between cosmology and astrobiology.","PeriodicalId":48878,"journal":{"name":"Serbian Astronomical Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48818089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The stellar atmosphere physical system II. An operative sequential algorithm to solve the stellar atmosphere problem","authors":"L. Crivellari","doi":"10.2298/SAJ190215001C","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/SAJ190215001C","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the second and the last of the series, we present a sequential algorithm to solve the stellar atmosphere problem that may serve as a paradigm for the solution of more general non-linear and non-local problems. The Iteration Factors (IF) Method is applied to achieve a solution of the radiative transfer equations, consistent with the radiative equilibrium constraint.","PeriodicalId":48878,"journal":{"name":"Serbian Astronomical Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49357540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}