{"id":226482,"date":"2025-12-04T01:32:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/kic-5623923-is-a-faint-eclipsing-binary-exhibiting-delta-scuti-type-pulsations-observations-find"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:32:59","slug":"kic-5623923-is-a-faint-eclipsing-binary-exhibiting-delta-scuti-type-pulsations-observations-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/kic-5623923-is-a-faint-eclipsing-binary-exhibiting-delta-scuti-type-pulsations-observations-find","title":{"rendered":"KIC 5623923 is a faint eclipsing binary exhibiting Delta Scuti-type pulsations, observations find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kic-5623923-is-a-faint-eclipsing-binary-exhibiting-delta-scuti-type-pulsations-observations-find.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using NASA\u2019s Kepler space telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a binary star system known as KIC 5623923. As a result, they found that the investigated system is a faint eclipsing binary experiencing Delta Scuti-type pulsations. The new findings were <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2511.19685\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> Nov. 24 on the <i>arXiv<\/i> pre-print server.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-07-turkish-astronomers-short-period-pulsating-variable.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Delta Scuti stars<\/a> are pulsating variables with spectral types between A and F, named after the Delta Scuti variable in the constellation Scutum. They exhibit radial and non-radial pulsations spanning periods from 20 minutes to eight hours. Studying pulsation behavior of Delta Scuti variables could help us advance our knowledge about stellar interiors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using NASA\u2019s Kepler space telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a binary star system known as KIC 5623923. As a result, they found that the investigated system is a faint eclipsing binary experiencing Delta Scuti-type pulsations. The new findings were published Nov. 24 on the arXiv pre-print server. Delta Scuti stars are pulsating variables with spectral [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}