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 …

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 …

Two contact binaries with mass ratios close to the minimum mass ratio

K Li, QQ Xia, CH Kim, SM Hu, DF Guo… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The cutoff mass ratio is under debate for contact binaries. In this paper, we present the
investigation of two contact binaries with mass ratios close to the low mass ratio limit. It is …

ZZ Piscis Austrinus (ZZ PsA): a bright red nova progenitor and the instability mass ratio of contact binary stars

SS Wadhwa, A De Horta, MD Filipović… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT ZZ Piscis Austrinus (ZZ PsA) is a neglected bright southern contact binary
system with maximum V magnitude of 9.26. We present the first multiband photometric …

Investigation of the orbital period and mass relations for W UMa-type contact systems

A Poro, S Sarabi, S Zamanpour… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
New relationships between the orbital period and some parameters of W Ursae Majoris (W
UMa)-type systems are presented in this study. To investigate the relationships, we …

The first photometric and orbital period investigation of an extremely low mass ratio contact binary with a sudden period change TYC 4002-2628-1

DF Guo, K Li, F Liu, HZ Li, QQ Xia, X Gao… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Photometric observations for the totally eclipsing binary system TYC 4002-2628-1, were
obtained between November 2020 and November 2021. To determine the stellar …

CoBiToM project–I. Contact binaries towards merging

KD Gazeas, GA Loukaidou, PG Niarchos… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Binary and multiple stellar systems are numerous in our solar neighbourhood with 80 per
cent of the solar-type stars being members of systems with high order multiplicity. The …

The first analysis of three long-period low mass-ratio contact binaries

F Liu, K Li, X Gao, YN Guo, LZ Li, XY Liu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The photometric and spectroscopic studies of three contact binaries, ASASSN-V J052036.
28+ 144711.0, ASASSN-V J064846. 22+ 241709.9, and ASASSN-V J073441. 02+ 555833.0 …

Detection of the lowest mass ratio contact binary in the universe: TYC 3801-1529-1

K Li, X Gao, DF Guo, DY Gao, X Chen… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
This paper presents the first analysis of the contact binary TYC 3801-1529-1. We observed
four sets of multiple bands complete light curves and one set of radial velocity curve of the …

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 …