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Long term period behaviour of contact binaries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
Abstract
Determination of the rate of mass flow in contact binary systems is one of the most important motives for their observation. Many of these binaries are in over-contact configuration with a common equipotential surface located somewhwere between the inner and outer Lagrangian zero-velocity surfaces. Most are active systems displaying frequent lightcurve and period changes resulting in residuals behaviour depictable by intersecting linear segments.
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