Contact binaries at different evolutionary stages

SB Qian, LY Zhu, L Liu, XD Zhang, XD Shi… - … in Astronomy and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Contact binaries consist of two strongly interacting component stars where they are filling
their critical Roche lobes and sharing a common envelope. Most of them are main-sequence …

Photometric study and absolute parameter estimation of six totally eclipsing contact binaries

K Li, QQ Xia, CH Kim, X Gao, SM Hu… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
High precision CCD observations of six totally eclipsing contact binaries were presented
and analyzed. It is found that only one target is an A-type contact binary (V429 Cam), while …

New low mass ratio contact binaries in the Catalina Sky Survey

PE Christopoulou, E Lalounta… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present the identification and photometric analysis of 30 new low mass ratio (LMR)
totally eclipsing contact binaries found in Catalina Sky Survey data. The LMR candidates are …

Deep, low mass ratio overcontact binary systems. XIV. A statistical analysis of 46 sample binaries

YG Yang, SB Qian - The Astronomical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
DEEP, LOW MASS RATIO OVERCONTACT BINARY SYSTEMS. XIV. A STATISTICAL
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Orbital period cut-off of W UMa-type contact binaries

XD Zhang, SB Qian - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Period cut-off and period–colour relation are two special characters of W UMa-type contact
binaries. In the past, many authors noted these two properties, however, a comprehensive …

Magnetic Activity and Orbital Period Study for the Short-period RS CVn–type Eclipsing Binary DV Psc

Q Pi, L Zhang, S Bi, XL Han, H Lu, Q Yue… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Using 27 sets of new multiband photometry light curves acquired from our long-term
photometric campaign carried out in the last 5 yr and high-resolution spectroscopic data …

Magnetic Activity on Four Short-period Contact Binaries: V0576 Peg, KW Psc, V0873 Per, and FY Boo

Y Yang, H Yuan, S Wang, H Dai - The Astronomical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We presented new photometry for four short-period late-type binaries, observed by three
small telescopes in China from 2020 September to 2021 December. Seven sets of light …

WISE J141530. 7+ 592234: A Very Low Mass Ratio Contact Binary with Significant Light Curve Variations

D Guo, K Li, F Liu, H Li, X Liu… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Multi-band photometric observations and period investigations of the total eclipsing binary
WISE J141530. 7+ 592234 (hereinafter J141530), whose mass ratio close to the low mass …

Starspots in contact and semi-detached binary systems

S Kouzuma - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We investigated the statistical properties of both cool and hot starspots in eclipsing binary
stars. The starspot and binary parameters for contact and semi-detached systems were …

Distribution of physical parameters for 380 contact binaries in the Kepler field

XZ Li, L Liu, LY Zhu - Publications of the Astronomical Society of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present the physical parameters (p, T, q, i, f) of 380 Kepler contact binary systems
(hereafter called CBs). A statistical study on the CBs is carried out based on a Kepler …