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Thirty Metal-Poor Stars Became Precision Benchmarks

Fifteen eclipsing binaries yielded masses and radii with median uncertainties below one percent.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-20-017
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Summary

Fifteen eclipsing binaries yielded masses and radii with median uncertainties below one percent.

Combined light curves, radial velocities and disentangled spectra found three systems below one-hundredth solar metallicity. The most metal-poor reached [M/H] = -2.51, while three age estimates exceeded ten billion years; model-dependent ages typically carried uncertainties under half a billion years.

Why it matters

Fifteen eclipsing binaries yielded masses and radii with median uncertainties below one percent.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. Fifteen eclipsing binaries yielded masses and radii with median uncertainties below one percent.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-20-019

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.19248arXiv · primary research

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