SZ Cam - A semi-detached binary system

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Jun 1980

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 86, no. 1-2, June 1980, p. 264-266. Research supported by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerc

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Early Stars, Eclipsing Binary Stars, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Ubv Spectra, Electrophotometry, Light Curve, Mathematical Models, Stellar Luminosity

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Kitamura and Yamasaki's (1972) UBV photoelectric observations of the early-type eclipsing binary SZ Cam have been reanalyzed by means of Wood's (1972) lightcurve synthesis numerical model. Values of the orbital inclination angle, the unperturbed fractional radius of the hotter component, the ratio of the unperturbed radii, and the ratio of the fractional luminosities of the hotter to the cooler component are found to be considerably smaller than previous values. The unperturbed radius of the cooler component, however, is so much larger that the cooler star entirely fills its Roche lobe corresponding to the mass ratio of q equal to 0.33; consequently, it is suggested that SZ Cam should be considered a semidetached system, rather than a detached one. This picture of SZ Cam may easily account for the secondary's overluminous and oversized properties, previously regarded as anomalous.

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