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Near-Contact Binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Authors

ZEJDA Miloslav MIKULÁŠEK Zdeněk QIAN Sheng-Bang ZHU Li-Ying WOLF Marek ZASCHE Petr JANÍK Jan LIŠKA Jiří SKARKA Marek

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference LIVING TOGETHER: PLANETS, HOST STARS, AND BINARIES
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Field Astronomy and astrophysics
Keywords stars
Description Several thousand eclipsing binaries (EBs) have been found in photometric surveys of the Magellanic Clouds. Periods, amplitudes, and other characteristics of these variable stars have been determined mostly from automatic pipelines, and accurate parameters of the eclipsing pairs and their components are only known for a small fraction of the EBs, mostly for detached ones. We focus on a group of stars in the near contact stage, launching a new project to the improve the accuracy of known parameters and to study any (dis)similarities among systems in our Galaxy and in the Magellanic Clouds.
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