2014MNRAS.443..432M -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 443, 432-445 (2014/September-1)
Eclipsing binary stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: results from the EROS-2, OGLE and VMC surveys.
MURAVEVA T., CLEMENTINI G., MACERONI C., EVANS C.J., MORETTI M.I., CIONI M.-R.L., MARQUETTE J.B., RIPEPI V., DE GRIJS R., GROENEWEGEN M.A.T., PIATTI A.E. and VAN LOON J.T.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present a catalogue of 1768 eclipsing binary stars (EBs) detected in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by the second generation of the EROS survey (hereinafter EROS-2); 493 of them are new discoveries located in outer regions (out of the central bar) of the LMC. These sources were originally included in a list of candidate classical Cepheids (CCs) extracted from the EROS-2 catalogue on the basis of the period (0.89 < PEROS < 15.85d) versus luminosity [13.39 < <BEROS> < 17.82mag] diagram. After visual inspection of the light curves we reclassified them as eclipsing binaries. They have blue colours (BEROS - REROS < 0.2mag) hence we classed them as hot eclipsing binaries (HEBs) containing hot massive components: main sequence (MS) stars or blue giants. We present Ks-band light curves for 999 binaries from our sample that have a counterpart in the VISTA near-infrared ESO public survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC). We provide spectral classifications of 13 HEBs with existing spectroscopy. We divided our sample into contact-like binaries and detached/semi-detached systems based on both visual inspection and the parameters of the Fourier decomposition of the light curves and analysed the period-luminosity (PL) relations of the contact-like systems using the REROS and Ks magnitudes at maximum light. The contact-like binaries in our sample do not follow PL relations. We analysed the sample of contact binaries from the OGLE III catalogue and confirmed that PLI and PL_K_s sequences are defined only by eclipsing binaries containing a red giant component.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2014)
Journal keyword(s):
techniques: photometric - surveys - binaries: eclipsing - Magellanic Clouds
VizieR on-line data:
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Simbad objects:
1772
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