English

Period-Luminosity-Colour Relation for Early-Type Contact Binaries

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2016-02-17 v1

Abstract

This work describes the analysis of 64 early-type, massive contact or near-contact eclipsing systems from the Large Magellanic Cloud discovered by the OGLE-III survey. It presents the determination of the period-luminosity-colour relation followed by these objects, that is different from the one previously known for late-type W UMa stars. The relation for massive stars has a significantly steeper dependence on the colour, which is related to a much higher bolometric correction, however it is shallower in the period term. This leads to the conclusion, that the relation for the total population of main sequence contact binaries is non-linear. When studied separately, genuinely-contact and near-contact systems follow two slightly different relations.

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@article{arxiv.1602.01467,
  title  = {Period-Luminosity-Colour Relation for Early-Type Contact Binaries},
  author = {Michal Pawlak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01467},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages, 9 figures, accepted to MNRAS

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