Let
$K$ be an algebraic number field of degree
$d\geqslant 3$ ,
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}_{1},\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}_{2},\ldots ,\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}_{d}$ the embeddings of
$K$ into
$\mathbb{C}$ ,
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ a non-zero element in
$K$ ,
$a_{0}\in \mathbb{Z}$ ,
$a_{0}>0$ and
$$\begin{eqnarray}F_{0}(X,Y)=a_{0}\mathop{\prod }_{i=1}^{d}(X-\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}_{i}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC})Y).\end{eqnarray}$$ Let
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D710}$ be a unit in
$K$ . For
$a\in \mathbb{Z}$ , we twist the binary form
$F_{0}(X,Y)\in \mathbb{Z}[X,Y]$ by the powers
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D710}^{a}$ (
$a\in \mathbb{Z}$ ) of
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D710}$ by setting
$$\begin{eqnarray}F_{a}(X,Y)=a_{0}\mathop{\prod }_{i=1}^{d}(X-\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}_{i}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}\unicode[STIX]{x1D710}^{a})Y).\end{eqnarray}$$ Given
$m>0$ , our main result is an effective upper bound for the size of solutions
$(x,y,a)\in \mathbb{Z}^{3}$ of the Diophantine inequalities
$$\begin{eqnarray}0<|F_{a}(x,y)|\leqslant m\end{eqnarray}$$ for which
$xy\not =0$ and
$\mathbb{Q}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}\unicode[STIX]{x1D710}^{a})=K$ . Our estimate is explicit in terms of its dependence on
$m$ , the regulator of
$K$ and the heights of
$F_{0}$ and of
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D710}$ ; it also involves an effectively computable constant depending only on
$d$ .