Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-10-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages of text, 8 figures (inserted with psfig) and 3 tables; accepted by PASP for the December 1997 issue
Scientific paper
10.1086/134014
Hipparcos parallax data for 40 contact binary stars of the W UMa-type (with errors in M_V < 0.5) are used to derive a new, (B-V)-based absolute-magnitude calibration of the form M_V = M_V(logP,B-V). The calibration covers the ranges 0.26 < (B-V)_0 < 1.14, 0.24 < P < 1.15 day, and 1.4 < M_V < 6.1; it is based on a solution weighted by relative errors in the parallaxes (2.7% to 24%). Previous calibrations have not been based on such a wide period and color space, and while they have been able to predict M_V with sufficient accuracy for systems closely following the well-known period-color relation, the new calibration should be able to give also good predictions for more exotic "outlying" contact binary systems. The main limitations of this calibration are the inadequate quality of the ground-based photometric data, and the restriction to the (B-V) index, which is more sensitive to metallicity effects than the (V-I) index; metallicities are, however, basically unknown for the local W UMa-type systems.
Duerbeck Hilmar W.
Rucinski Slavek M.
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