We extended the O−C diagram for V965 Cep with all currently available observations in the Johnson V filter and added unfiltered ones. The new, up-to-date O−C diagram shows that the seeming period change previously revealed by the author does not occur uniformly. Instead, the near-parabolic part of the O−C diagram can be a part of a periodic curve. This could be a sign of the second body in the system. Based on our observations, we also estimated the B−V index of the star to be 0.48±0.05 at maximum brightness and 0.57±0.05 at minimum brightness.
@article{arxiv.2505.18312,
title = {V965 Cephei revisited: evidence for a binary system},
author = {Maksym Pyatnytskyy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.18312},
year = {2025}
}
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