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Two-Color Photometry of V448 Monocerotis

  • Nha, Il-Seong
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.16-18
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    • 1974
  • Photolectric observations with B and V filters of the eclipsing binary system V448 Monocerotis are presented. The light curves, which cover 30% of the light cycle, show the variability of this system.

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LIGHT CORVES AND ROCHE CONFIGURATIONS OF NEAR-CONTACT BINARY AX DRACONIS (근접촉쌍성 AX Draconis의 광도곡선과 로쉬모형)

  • 김호일;이재우;김천휘;윤재혁;이우백
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.239-248
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    • 2003
  • We completed the light curves of near-contact binary system AX Dra for 11 nights from March 2001 to May using the 61-cm reflector and VR filters at Sobaeksan Optical Astronomy Observatory. From our observations, seven new times of minimum light (three timings to. primary eclipse, four. for. secondary) and the light elements consistent with recent observations were determined. Using the Wilson-Devinney binary code and the q-search method, we analyzed our VR light curves for various Roche configurations and mass ratios. As the results, we found the eclipsing binary AX Dra to be the FO Vir-type near-contact binary system interpreted as a detached or a semi-detached system, with the secondary filling its Roche lobe and the primary almost. Unlike the statistical study(Shaw 1994) of the FO Vir-type near-contact binary system, our VR light curves showed the O'Connell effect of all the same type and it's dimensions was about $0^{m}.008$.

The KMTNet View of Variable Stars : Pulsation and Rotation of the EL CVn-type Eclipsing Binary J0247-25

  • Kim, Seung-Lee;Lee, Jae Woo;Lee, Chung-Uk;Lee, Yongseok;Lee, Dong-Joo;Hong, Kyeongsoo;Cha, Sang-Mok;Kim, Dong-Jin;Park, Byeong-Gon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.41.2-41.2
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    • 2018
  • EL CVn-type eclipsing binaries are composed of a massive A-type main-sequence primary star and a hotter B-type secondary one. These are worthy of particular attention because the secondary stars are rare objects to be extremely low-mass white dwarf precursors (ELM proto-WD) with the mass of ${\leq}0.2M_{\odot}$, evolving to higher effective temperatures and higher surface gravities. A few of them were discovered to show multi-periodic pulsations in one or both components. We monitored one of these rare and interesting objects, J0247-25 (=1SWASP J024743.37-251549.2), at two KMTNet sites of SAAO in South Africa and SSO in Australia. The observations were performed with the KMTNet 1.6m telescopes and pre-science 4K CCD cameras during the system test run from July to November 2014. Using the photometric data obtained for a total of 23 nights, we constructed well-defined eclipsing light curves in B/V-bands and derived absolute parameters (mass and radius, etc.) of each binary component. After subtracting model eclipsing curves from the data, we detected seven frequencies with 33~53 cycles per day (c/d) and identified them to be Delta Sct-type pulsations originated from the A-type primary component. Five frequencies were turned out to be excited by rotational splitting of non-radial pressure modes, enabled us to investigate rotational properties. We could not detect any frequency higher than 100 c/d, implying that pulsation amplitudes of the proto-WD secondary decrease greatly.

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A CONSTRUCTION OF A SEMI-AUTOMATIC TELESCOPE FOR ECLIPSE TIMING OBSERVATIONS OF ECLIPSING BINARY STARS (식쌍성의 극심시각 관측을 위한 소형 반자동 망원경 관측시스템의 구성)

  • 이충욱;박성수;김천휘;변용익
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.143-152
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    • 2003
  • We constructed the photometric observation system with a small semi-automatic telescope for the systematic observations of eclipse timings of eclipsing binary stars. The system is consisted of a Paramount GT-1100s mount system, a Celestron 14 optical system, and a SBIG ST-8 camera. We developed the OBSTOOL S/W which controls the telescope and the CCD camera using the COM(Component Object Model) supported by the softwares, The Sky and MaximDL. The system performs photometric observations of a variable, comparison and check stars by moving the telescope to the chosen star separately in a similar way such as the method of photoelectric observation. We wrote pert scripts which enable a data handling pipeline for the obtained data to be classified by each of date, object and filter. And thus the images are easily preprocessed using the IRAF S/W package. Eclipse light curves of some eclipsing binary stars observed with this system are presented.

PHOTOELECTRIC OBSERVATIONS AND PERIOD STUDY OF ECLIPSING BINARY VZ CEP

  • 김천희;이재우;안영숙;한원용
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.297-306
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    • 1998
  • Photoelectric observations of the neglected eclipsing binary VZ Cep were made on four night during the observing season of 1984 at Sobaeksan Astronomy Observatory. The UBV light curves were secured incompletely with the gap in 0.35-0.75 phases. From the observations three times of minimum lights were determined in three band-passes, which formed one weighted minimum epoch (JD Hel 2446009.0453). With our observations, and improved light elements for VZ Cep is determined using all the photoelectric and CCD times of minimum lights published so far. The (O-C) resid-uals calculated with our light elements show small varying scatters which cannot be negligible. From the analyses of all the times of minima with the Scargle’s(1982)period-searching and a curve fitting methods, we found possible periodic oscillations of the (O-C) residuals with the period of 1. y26 and the amplitude of 0.d0032. These results, however, have to be considered as a preliminary values until complete analysis for the minimum lights of VZ Cep with enough observational data. Future observations of this binary system are urgently prompted.

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Photometric Observations of Eccentric Accretion in Algol-type Binary Stars

  • Reed, Phillip A.
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.141-143
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    • 2012
  • Some Algol-type interacting binary stars exhibit strange photometric variations that can be phase-dependent and/or secular. This paper discusses the possibility of explaining these observed variations as resulting from an accretion structure eclipsing one or both of the stars. Some previous studies are reviewed and suggestions for future work are made, including the prospective of incorporating data from the Kepler Observatory.

1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5: A Possible Hierarchical Quintuple System

  • Koo, Jae-Rim;Lee, Jae Woo;Lee, Byeong-Cheol;Kim, Seung-Lee;Lee, Chung-Uk;Hong, Kyeongsoo;Lee, Dong-Joo;Rey, Soo-Chang
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.71.1-71.1
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    • 2013
  • Among quadruples or higher multiplicity stars, only a few binary systems have been discovered. They are important targets to understand the formation and evolution of multiple stellar systems because we can obtain accurate stellar parameters from photometric and spectroscopic studies. We present the observational results of this kind of rare object 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5, for which the doubly eclipsing feature had been detected previously from the SuperWASP photometric archive. Individual PSF photometry for two objects with a separation of about 1.9 arcsec was performed for the first time in this study. Our time-series photometric data show that the brighter object A is an Algol-type detached eclipsing binary with an orbital period of 1.3 days and the fainter B is a W UMa-type contact eclipsing binary with a period of 0.23 days. Using the high-resolution optical spectra, we obtained well-defined radial velocity variations of the system A. Furthermore, stationary spectral lines were detected and should have originated from the other stellar component, which was confirmed by the third object contribution from the light curve analysis. No spectral feature of the system B was detected, probably due to its faintness. We obtained the binary parameters and the absolute dimensions from each light curve synthesis. The primary and secondary components of the system A have a spectral type of K1 and K5 main sequences, respectively. Two components of system B have nearly the same type of K3 main sequence. Light variations at out of eclipses were appeared in both systems, interpreting as the effect of stellar spots on these late spectral type stars. We estimated the distances to the systems A and B individually. They may have similar distances of about 70 pc and seem to be gravitationally bound with a separation of about 130 AU. In conclusion, we suggest that 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5 is a quintuple stellar system with a hierarchical structure of a triple system A(ab)c and a binary system B(ab).

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