Contact binary stars as standard candles

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Jun 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004padeu..14..303k&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of the British-Hungarian N+N Workshop for Young Researchers On Computer processing and use of satellite data in

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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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.

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