CAOSP abstracts, Volume: 49, No.: 2, year: 2019

Author(s): Debski, B.
Journal: Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso, vol. 49, no. 2, p. 258-263.
Date: 5/2019
Title: A relation between the brightness maxima separation and mass ratio in contact binaries
Keyword(s): stars, contact binaries, starspots
Pages: 258 -- 263
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Abstract: A new effect concerning the light curves of contact binaries is presented. The separation between the brightness maxima tends to be larger than half of the orbital phase, if the primary minimum is defined as during which the more massive star is being eclipsed.

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