A study of twelve potential merger candidate contact binary systems

Surjit S. Wadhwa; Bojan Arbutina; Nick F. H. Tothill; Miroslav D. Filipović; Ain Y. De Horta; Jelena Petrović; Gojko Djurašević

A study of twelve potential merger candidate contact binary systems

Surjit S. Wadhwa, Bojan Arbutina, Nick F. H. Tothill, Miroslav D. Filipović, Ain Y. De Horta, Jelena Petrović, Gojko Djurašević

Western Sydney University

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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 from 0.072 to 0.15. Also, all show characteristics of orbital instability with mass ratios within the theoretical orbital instability range. Although none demonstrate a significant O’Connell effect at least nine of the systems have other indicators of increased chromospheric and magnetic activity.

Original language	English
Article number	74202
Number of pages	9
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Volume	135
Issue number	1049
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2023

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