Eclipsing binaries in the MOST satellite fields

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Apr 2010

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Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.331, Issue 4, p.397

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Binaries: Close, Binaries: Eclipsing, Binaries: Spectroscopic

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Sixteen new eclipsing binaries have been discovered by the MOST satellite among guide stars used to point its telescope in various fields. Several previously known eclipsing binaries were also observed by MOST with unprecedented quality. Among the objects we discuss in more detail are short-period eclipsing binaries with eccentric orbits in young open clusters: V578 Mon in NGC 2244 and HD 47934 in NGC 2264. Long nearly-continuous photometric runs made it possible to discover three long-period eclipsing binaries with orbits seen almost edge-on: HD 45972 with P = 28.1 days and two systems (GSC 154 1247 and GSC 2141 526) with P > 25 days. The high precision of the satellite data led to discoveries of binaries with very shallow eclipses (e.g., HD 46180 with A = 0.016 mag, and HD 47934 with A = 0.025 mag). Ground-based spectroscopy to support the space-based photometry was used to refine the models of several of the systems.
Based on photometric data from MOST, a Canadian Space Agency mission (jointly operated by Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (formerly the Space Division of Dynacon Inc.), the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies - SpaceFlight Lab and the University of British Columbia, with the assistance of the University of Vienna), and on spectroscopic data from the David Dunlap Observatory, University of Toronto, and Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Institute Washington.

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