Contact binary stars as standard candles

Bibcode
2004PADEU..14..303K
Klagyivik, P.; Csizmadia, Sz.
Bibliographical reference

In: Proceedings of the British-Hungarian N+N Workshop for Young Researchers On Computer processing and use of satellite data in astronomy and astrophysics and 3rd Workshop of Young Researchers in Astronomy & Astrophysics; Hungary, 3-7 February 2004; Publications of the Astronomy Department of the Eötvös University (PADEU), Edited by E. Forgács-Dajka, K. Petrovay and R. Erdélyi, 2004, ISBN 963 463 557, Vol. 14. p.303-308

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2004
Number of authors
2
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
7
Refereed citations
7
Description
Rucinski (1996) suggested to use contact binary stars as standard candles. We investigated the properties of contact binary stars in order to search for possibility of their using as standard candles. For this purpose a catalogue of their light curve solution was compiled and on the basis of the catalogue data we calculated the rate of energy transfer between the two components. This allowed us to determine the mass-luminosity relation of the primary as well as secondary components in a contact binary and using Kepler's third law and the strict geometry a very reliable distance determination method was developed.
Type
Non-refereed

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