Detached binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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Jul 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004newar..48..719m&link_type=abstract

New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 48, Issue 9, p. 719-725.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Binaries: Eclipsing, Magellanic Clouds, Stars: Distances

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Analysis of the radial-velocity and light curves of detached eclipsing binaries allows to derive stellar masses and radii and, in consequence, enables to find their distances. This method has been already applied to several LMC binaries, but in order to have the distance to the LMC determined with good accuracy, the study needs to be extended to a larger number of eclipsing systems. As a first step, we present results of the analysis of the photometry of over 80 detached binaries in the LMC selected from the OGLE-II catalog of 53,000 candidates for variables. If possible, we combine the OGLE-II data with the photometry from other projects (MACHO and EROS). As a result, we present the list of the brightest eclipsing binaries in the LMC suitable for distance determination.

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