New CCD photometry for the extreme lower mass-ratio binary AW Ursae Majoris

Details New CCD photometry for the extreme lower mass-ratio binary AW Ursae Majoris New CCD photometry for the extreme lower mass-ratio binary AW Ursae Majoris

Apr 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008ap%26ss.314..151y&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 314, Issue 1-3, pp. 151-162

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars: Binaries: Close, Stars: Binaries: Eclipsing, Stars: Individuals (Aw Uma), Photometric Solution

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This paper presents charge-couple device (CCD) photometric observations for the eclipsing binary AW UMa. The V-band light curve in 2007 was analyzed using the 2003 version of the Wilson Devinney code. It is confirmed that AW UMa is a total eclipsing binary with a higher degree of contact f=80.2% and a lower mass ratio of q=0.076. From the ( O- C) curve, the orbital period shows a continuous period decrease at a rate of dP/ dt=-2.05×10-7 d yr-1. The long-term period decrease suggested that AW UMa is undergoing the mass transfer from the primary component to the secondary one, accompanied by angular momentum loss due to mass outflow L 2. Weak evidence indicates that there exists a cyclic variation with a period of 17.6 yr and a small amplitude of A=0. d 0019, which may be attributed to the light-time effect via the third body. If the existence of an additional body is true, it may remove a great amount of angular momentum from the central system. For this kind of contact binary, as the orbital period decreases, the shrinking of the inner and outer critical Roche lobes will cause the contact degree f to increase. Finally, this kind of binary will merge into a single rapid-rotation star.

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