New Algol Candidates from the ROTSE-I Database

Details New Algol Candidates from the ROTSE-I Database New Algol Candidates from the ROTSE-I Database

Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.6020h&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #60.20; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.846

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Using data from the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE-I), we have started classifying variable stars by object type. ROTSE-I consisted of four small cameras that scanned the entire northern sky on a nightly basis, to 15th magnitude, for approximately a year. This provides a great opportunity to identify and study relatively bright variable stars. We have found more than 600 Algol-type eclipsing binaries in the database that were previously undocumented. We used a combination of automated Fourier analysis and manual inspection to identify the candidates. In some cases, objects were previously misidentified as another class of variable star. In other cases where the object was previously identified as an Algol, the documented period of the object was either incorrect or the period has significantly changed in recent times. Finally, we present example light curves of unique Algol-type eclipsing binaries, including candidates containing a pulsating component and those that are candidates for a dwarf-dwarf eclipsing pair.

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