The most plausible explanation of the cyclic period changes in close binaries: the case of the RS CVn-type binary WW Dra

WP Liao, SB Qian - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Cyclic period changes are a fairly common phenomenon in close binary systems and are
usually explained as being caused either by the magnetic activity of one or both components …

Mass-luminosity relation for massive stars

EA Vitrichenko, DK Nadyozhin, TL Razinkova - Astronomy Letters, 2007 - Springer
A catalog of massive (⩾ 10 M⊙) stars in binary and multiple systems with well-known
masses and luminosities has been compiled. The catalog is analyzed using a theoretical …

HD 214220 (BD+ 56 2813): An eclipsing binary with its primary component at the end of the main sequence

W Schmutz - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Analysis of the light curves of an eclipsing binary allows one to derive the absolute
dimensions of the system. This in turn yields information on the radii of the components …

Photometric analysis of three potential red nova progenitors

SS Wadhwa, A De Horta, MD Filipović… - … in Astronomy and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present photometric analysis of three bright red nova progenitor contact binary systems:
ASAS J082151-0612.6, TYC 7281-269-1 and TYC 7275-1968-1. The primary components …

First ever polarimetric detection of a wind-wind interaction region and a misaligned flattening of the wind in the Wolf-Rayet Binary CQ Cephei

A Villar-Sbaffi, N St-Louis, AFJ Moffat… - The Astrophysical …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we present unfiltered and multiband (ie, UBVRI) polarimetric observations of
the short-period Wolf-Rayet binary CQ Cep. Using the basic assumptions of an optically thin …

A Chandra observation of the eclipsing Wolf–Rayet binary CQ Cep

SL Skinner, SA Zhekov, M Güdel… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The short-period (1.64 d) near-contact eclipsing WN6+ O9 binary system CQ
Cep provides an ideal laboratory for testing the predictions of X-ray colliding wind shock …

[HTML][HTML] Does the Wolf-Rayet binary CQ Cephei undergo sporadic mass transfer events?

G Koenigsberger, W Schmutz, SL Skinner - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. Stellar wind mass-loss in binary systems carries away angular momentum causing
a monotonic increase in the orbital period, Ṗ> 0. Despite possessing a significant stellar …

Astrophysics in 1998

V Trimble, M Aschwanden - … of the Astronomical Society of the …, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT From Alpha (Orionis and the parameter in mixing‐length theory) to Omega
(Centauri and the density of the universe), the Greeks had a letter for it. In between, we look …

Etkileşen Wolf-Rayet Çift Sistem CQ Cephei (WN6+ O9 II-Ib)

İ Aköz, K Yakut - Turkish Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023 - dergipark.org.tr
Bu çalışmada, galaksimizde yer alan örten Wolf-Rayet çift yıldızlardan biri olan CQ Cep
(WR155, HD 214419) çift sitemin 2015-2020 yılları arasında fotometrik gözlemlerinin analizi …

[HTML][HTML] Polarization Constraints on Massive Binaries

A Villar-Sbaffi, AFJ Moffat… - Massive Stars in …, 2007 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Polarization Constraints on Massive Binaries ADS Classic is now deprecated. It will be
completely retired in October 2019. This page will automatically redirect to the new ADS …