We present a preliminary statistical analysis of a period change of eclipsing binaries from the ASAS Catalog of Variable Stars. For each contact and semidetached system brighter than 13.3mag (in V) with a period shorter than 0.4 days and at least 300 observation points we have found an angular velocity ω and its time derivative dtdω. According to our accuracy there is no evidence that average dtdω differs from 0. Light curves for selected stars are presented.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0607186,
title = {Period Change of Eclipsing Binaries from the ASAS Catalog},
author = {Radoslaw Poleski and Bogumil Pilecki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0607186},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Published in Proceedings of the 13th Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, held in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 25-29, 2006, Eds.: Golovin, A.; Ivashchenko, G.; Simon, A