Contact binary stars of the W UMa type as distance tracers
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
Contact binaries can be used for distance determinations of stellar systems. They are easy to discover and identify and are very abundant among solar-type stars, particularly for M_V > +3. The period - luminosity - colour (PLC) relations have similar properties to those for pulsating stars and can currently predict individual values of M_V to about +/-0.25 mag.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0311085,
title = {Contact binary stars of the W UMa type as distance tracers},
author = {Slavek M. Rucinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0311085},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
IAU Sydney 2003, JD13 Extragalactic Binaries, ed.I.Ribas, uses elsart3.cls