The study of 11 contact binaries with mass ratios less than 0.1

XY Liu, K Li, R Michel, X Gao, X Gao… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Multi-band photometric observations of 11 totally eclipsing contact binaries were carried out.
Applying the Wilson–Devinney program, photometric solutions were obtained. There are two …

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 …

A Study of Twelve Potential Merger Candidate Contact Binary Systems

SS Wadhwa, B Arbutina, NFH Tothill… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Photometric observations and analysis of twelve previously poorly studied contact binary
systems is presented. All show total eclipses and have extremely low mass ratios ranging …

Mass-ratio distribution of contact binary stars

M Pešta, O Pejcha - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
The mass ratio q of a contact binary star evolves through mass transfer, magnetic braking,
and thermal relaxation oscillations to low values until it crosses a critical threshold q min …

Effects of metallicity on the instability mass ratio of low-mass contact binary systems

SS Wadhwa, NR Landin, P Kostić… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The orbital stability of contact binary systems has been receiving considerable attention
recently. Theoretical studies indicate that merger is likely to occur at very low-mass ratios …

Low-mass contact binaries: orbital stability at extreme low mass ratios

SS Wadhwa, NR Landin, B Arbutina… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
With the ever-increasing number of light-curve solutions of contact binary systems, an
increasing number of potential bright red nova progenitors are being reported. There …

A Study of Six Extreme Low Mass Ratio Contact Binary Systems

SS Wadhwa, B Arbutina, J Petrović… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Multi-band (B, V and R) photometric and spectroscopic observations of six poorly studied
contact binaries carried out at the Western Sydney University and Las Cumbres Observatory …

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 …

A Unique Low-mass-ratio Contact Eclipsing Binary System under the Period Cutoff

A Papageorgiou, PE Christopoulou… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a multiband photometric analysis of CRTS J163819. 6+ 03485, the first low-
mass-ratio contact binary system with a period of 0.2053321 day under the contact binary …

WISE J185503. 7+ 592234: A particularly low mass ratio contact binary approaching merger

DF Guo, K Li, F Liu, HZ Li, XY Liu - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, the total eclipsing binary WISE J185503. 7+ 592234 (hereinafter J185503),
whose mass ratio is around the mass ratio limit, was observed and investigated for the first …