Table Of ContentCLOSE BINARIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY:
NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
CLOSE BINARIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY:
NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
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A`LVAROGIME´NEZ
ESA-ESTEC,Noordwjk,TheNetherlands
EDWARDGUINAN
VillanovaUniversity,USA
PANAGIOTISNIARCHOS
UniversityofAthens,Greece
SLAVEKRUCINSKI
UniversityofToronto,Canada
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TABLEOFCONTENTS
A`lvaroGime´nez,EdwardGuinan,PanagiotisNiarchosandSlavekRucinski/Preface 1–2
EdwardF.GuinanandScottG.Engle/TheBraveNewWorldofBinaryStarStudies 3–9
E. Budding, C. Bembrick, B.D. Carter, N. Erkan, M. Jardine, S.C. Marsden, R. Osten, P. Petit, M. Semel,
O.B.SleeandI.Waite/Multisite,MultiwavelengthStudiesoftheActiveCoolBinaryCCEri 11–14
Antonio Frasca, Ettore Marilli, Patrick Guillout, Rubens Freire Ferrero, Elvira Covino and Juan M. Alcala´ /
Late-typeX-rayEmittingBinariesintheSolarNeighborhoodandinStarFormingRegions 15–18
A`lvaroGime´nez/AnalysisofExtra-SolarPlanetaryTransitsUsingToolsfromEclipsingBinaries 19–22
Qian Shengbang, Yang Yuangui, Zhu Liying, He Jiajia and Yuan Jingzhao / Photometric Studies of Twelve
Deep,Low-massRatioOvercontactBinarySystems 23–26
Zeynep Bozkurt and O¨mer Lu¨tfi Deg˘irmenci / Updated UBV Light-Curve and Period Analysis of Eclipsing
BinaryHSHerculis 27–31
H.V.S¸enavcı,B.Albayrak,S.O.SelamandT.Ak/ThePeriodVariationofV839Oph 33–35
Pavel Mayer, Marek Wolf, P.G. Niarchos, K.D. Gazeas, V.N. Manimanis and Drahom´ır Chochol /
InvestigationofTimesofMinimaofSelectedEarly-TypeEclipsingBinaries 37–39
R.R.ShobbrookandS.Zola/PhotometricStudiesofBrightSouthernBinarySystems:(cid:1) Craandψ Ori 41–43
S.Nesslinger,H.Drechsel,R.Lorenz,P.Harmanec,P.MayerandM.Wolf/PhotometricSolutionoftheO-type
EclipsingBinaryV1007Sco 45–47
T.Hegedu¨s,J.Nuspl,N.Markova,H.Markov,H.Rovithis-Livaniou,I.VinceandJ.Vinko´ /FirstResultsof
theCentral-East-SouthEuropeanBinaryStarStudyGroup(CESEB) 49–51
Zsolt Ko˝va´ri, Katalin Ola´h, Ja´nos Bartus, Klaus G. Strassmeier and Thomas Granzer / Spot Modelling of
ζ Andromedae 53–55
M.C.Ga´lvez,D.Montes,M.J.Ferna´ndez-FigueroaandJ.Lo´pez-Santiago/ChromosphericActivityandOrbital
SolutionofSixNewLate-typeSpectroscopicBinarySystems 57–59
V.N. Manimanis and P.G. Niarchos / The Near-Contact System V387 Cygni: BVRI Photometry and
Modelling 61–63
K.Yu¨ce,S.O.Selam,B.AlbayrakandT.Ak/MonitoringSecularOrbitalPeriodVariationsofSomeEclipsing
BinariesattheAnkaraUniversityObservatory 65–67
J.M. Kreiner, S. Zola, W. Ogloza, B. Pokrzywka, M. Drozdz, G. Stachowski, B. Zakrzewski, P.G. Niarchos,
K.Gazeas,S.M.Rucinski,M.Siwak,D.Koziel,D.KjurkchievaandD.Marchev/TheWUMa-type
StarsProgram:FirstResults,CurrentStatusandPerspectives 69–71
PeterP.EggletonandLudmilaKisseleva-Eggleton/AMechanismforProducingShort-PeriodBinaries 73–77
KazimierzSte¸pien´ /EvolutionaryStatusofLate-typeContactBinaries:Caseofa1.2+1 M(cid:1)Binary 79–82
C.Foellmi,A.F.J.MoffatandS.V.Marchenko/WindIonizationStructureoftheShort-PeriodEclipsingLMC
Wolf-RayetBinaryBAT99-129:PreliminaryResults 83–86
I.Ribas/MassesandRadiiofLow-MassStars:TheoryVersusObservations 87–90
D.Chochol,T.Pribulla,M.Vanˇko,P.Mayer,M.Wolf,P.G.Niarchos,K.D.Gazeas,V.N.Manimanis,L.Bra´t
andM.Zejda/Light-TimeEffectintheEclipsingBinariesGOCyg,GWCep,ARAurandV505Sgr 91–94
Stephen Skinner, Manuel Gu¨del, Werner Schmutz and Svetozar Zhekov / X-ray Observations of Binary and
SingleWolf-RayetStarswithXMM-NewtonandChandra 95–97
Roman Rodica and Mioc Vasile / Libration Points in Schwarzschild’s Circular Restricted Three-Body
Problem 99–101
LauritsLeedja¨rv/SymbioticStarsintheContextofBinaryEvolutionandMetallicity 103–105
S.Zola,K.Gazeas,J.M.KreinerandB.Zakrzewski/PropertiesofComponentsinContactSystems 107–109
A.KalimerisandH.Livaniou-Rovithis/On(m˙ − P˙)and(J˙− P˙)-TypeRelationsforCloseBinaries 111–113
S.Tsantilas,H.Rovithis-LivaniouandG.Djurasevic/RadiationPressureandSurfaceGravityofCloseBinaries:
FirstResultsfromObservationalDataAnalysis 115–117
WaldemarOglozaandBartlomiejZakrzewski/TheSpatialDistributionofWUMa-TypeStars 119–121
K.D. Gazeas, P.G. Niarchos and G.-P. Gradoula / Modeling the 2004.5 Brightening of the Contact Binary
V839Oph 123–125
E.Antonopoulou,N.Nanouris,G.Kontogiannis,G.GiannikakisandO.Dionatos/FirstPhotometricObserva-
tionsandPreliminaryResultsofBinariesFOAurigaeandV1025Herculis 127–128
B.Albayrak,S.O.Selam,K.Yu¨ce,M.HelvacıandT.Ak/MonitoringPossibleLight-TimeEffectintheOrbital
PeriodofSomeEclipsingBinariesattheAnkaraUniversityObservatory 129–131
M.Vanˇko,J.Tremko,T.Pribulla,D.Chochol,Sˇ.ParimuchaandJ.M.Kreiner/DistributionsofGeometrical
andPhysicalParametersofContactBinaries 133–135
ChristiaanSterken/SomeThoughtsonPulsationandBinarity 137–141
KatalinOla´h/ActiveLongitudesinCloseBinaries 143–146
Go¨staGahm/EnhancedActivityinCloseTTauriBinaries 147–150
S.V.Jeffers/ModellingEclipsingBinarieswithDenseSpotCoverage 151–154
D.M.Z.Jassur,M.H.KermaniandG.Gozaliasl/OrbitalPeriodChangesandLongTermLuminosityVariation
inActiveBinaryCGCyg 155–158
MiloslavZejda,ZdeneˇkMikula´sˇek,MarekWolfandOndˇrejPejcha/ShortTime-ScaleVariabilityintheLight
CurveofTWDraconis 159–161
StephenSkinner,ManuelGu¨del,KevinBriggs,StanislavMelnikovandMarcAudard/X-rayEmissionfrom
thePre-MainSequenceSystemsFUOrionisandTTauri 163–165
D. Mkrtichian, S.-L. Kim, A.V. Kusakin, E. Rovithis-Livaniou, P. Rovithis, P. Lampens, P. van Cauteren,
R.R. Shobbrook, E. Rodriguez, A. Gamarova, E.C. Olson and Y.W. Kang / A Search for Pulsating,
Mass-AccretingComponentsinAlgol-TypeEclipsingBinaries 167–169
PedroJ.Amado,SusanaMart´ın-Ru´ız,JuanCarlosSua´rez,ArmandoArellanoFerro,Andre´sMoya,IgnasiRibas
andEnnioPoretti/HD172189,aClusterMemberBinarySystemwithaδScutiComponentintheField
ofViewofCOROT 171–173
PetrZasche,MiloslavZejdaandLubosˇBra´t/EclipsingBinarieswithPossibleLight-TimeEffect 175–177
Marek Wolf, P.G. Niarchos, K.D. Gazeas, V.N. Manimanis, Lenka Kotkova´, Anton Paschke and Miloslav
Zejda/EccentricEclipsingBinaryYYSagittarii 179–181
Thierry Morel, Giuseppina Micela and Fabio Favata / Photospheric Abundance Peculiarities in RS CVn
Binaries 183–185
A.Elmaslı,S.O.Selam,B.AlbayrakandD.O¨zuyar/PossibleLight-TimeEffectintheEclipsingBinarySystem
TYBoo 187–188
SergioMessinaandEdwardF.Guinan/PreliminaryPhotometricEvidenceofStarspotUmbraeandPenumbrae
onLate-TypeActiveStars 189–191
T.H.Dall,K.G.StrassmeierandH.Bruntt/Late-TypeActiveStars:Rotation&Companions 193–195
JohnSouthworthandJensViggoClausen/EclipsingBinariesinOpenClusters 197–200
R.W.Hilditch/EclipsingBinariesinLocalGroupGalaxies 201–204
A.Z. Bonanos, K.Z. Stanek, R.P. Kudritzki, L. Macri, D.D. Sasselov, J. Kaluzny, D. Bersier, F. Bresolin,
T. Matheson, B.J. Mochejska, N. Przybilla, A.H. Szentgyorgyi, J. Tonry and G. Torres / The First
DIRECTDistancetoaDetachedEclipsingBinaryinM33 205–207
S.NesslingerandH.Drechsel/AbsoluteParametersofEarly-TypeCloseBinariesintheLMC 209–212
Russell Robb, John Vincent and Joanne Rosvick / Searching for Planetary Eclipses in Open Clusters:
NGC7086 213–215
PierreNorth/BinarieswithTotalEclipsesintheLMC:PotentialTargetsforSpectroscopy 217–219
IanTodd,DonPollacco,IanSkillen,D.M.Bramich,SteveBellandThomasAugusteijn/EclipsingBinaryStars
inNearbyGalaxies 221–223
J.Pritchard,J.B.Marquette,PatrickTisserand,J.P.Beaulieu,E.LesquoyandA.Milsztajn/EROS-IIVariable
Stars:EclipsingBinariesintheEROSMicrolensingSurveys 225–227
I.Ribas,J.C.Morales,C.AllendePrieto,C.Jordi,D.H.BradstreetandS.J.Sanders/FirstResultsfromROTES:
TheROtseTelescopeEclipsing-binarySurvey 229–231
Fre´de´ricPontandFranc¸oisBouchy/PlanetsandPlanet-SizedBinariesfromtheOGLETransitSurvey 233–236
GenyaTakedaandFredericA.Rasio/EccentricitiesofPlanetsinBinarySystems 237–240
KeithHsuanandRosemaryA.Mardling/AThreeBodySolutionfortheDIHerSystem 241–244
Valentin D. Ivanov, G. Chauvin, C. Foellmi, M. Hartung, N. Hue´lamo, C. Melo, D. Nu¨rnberger and
M. Sterzik / Common Proper Motion Search for Faint Companions Around Early-Type Field Stars –
ProgressReport 245–247
R.U.Claudi,M.Cancian,M.Barbieri,R.Gratton,S.Desidera,M.Montalto,G.P.PiottoandS.Scuderi/The
AsiagoExtrasolarPlanetTransitSearch 249
D.Pollacco,I.Skillen,A.Cameron,D.Christian,J.Irwin,T.Lister,R.Street,R.West,W.Clarkson,N.Evans,
A.Fitzsimmons,C.Haswell,C.Hellier,S.Hodgkin,K.Horne,B.Jones,S.Kane,F.Keenan,A.Norton,
J.Osborne,R.RyansandP.Wheatley/TheWASPProjectandSuperWASPCamera 251–253
VassilikiKalogera/X-RayBinariesinNearbyGalaxies 255–259
A.M.Cherepashchuk/SynthesisofLineProfilesandRadialVelocityCurvesforX-RayBinarySystems 261–264
VladislavPustynskiandIzoldPustylnik/HotSubdwarfsinPrecataclysmicBinaries 266–268
LindaSchmidtobreickandKatherineBlundell/OntheBinaryNatureofSS433 269–272
D.V.Bisikalo,P.V.Kaygorodov,A.A.BoyarchukandO.A.Kuznetsov/OnPossibleNatureofPre-eclipseDips
inLightCurvesofSemi-detachedSystemswithSteady-stateDisks 273–276
L.M. Dray, J.E. Dale, M.E. Beer, A.R. King and R. Napiwotzki / After the Supernova: Runaway Stars and
MassiveX-rayBinaryPopulationswithMetallicity 277–280
GerardoJ.M.Luna,J.L.SokoloskiandRobertoD.D.Costa/X-raysfromtheSymbioticStarRXPup 281–283
Irina Voloshina and Valerian Sementsov / Results of Optical Monitoring of Cataclysmic Variable GK Per in
2004 285–287
Fab´ıolaMarianaAguiarRibeiroandMarcosDiaz/TomographicSimulationsofAccretionDisksinCataclysmic
Variables–FlickeringandWind 289–291
Thierry Morel and Yves Grosdidier / X1908+075: A Late O-Type Supergiant with a Neutron Star
Companion 293–295
Claus Tappert, Boris T. Ga¨nsicke, Ronald E. Mennickent and Linda Schmidtobreick / Spectroscopy of the
CandidatePre-CVLTT560 297–299
LindaSchmidtobreick,ClausTappert,AlessandroEderoclite,IvoSavianeandElenaMason/TheEnigmatic
BehaviouroftheOldNovaRRPic 301–303
L.Hric,R.Ga´lis,P.NiarchosandK.Gazeas/SymbioticBinaryYYHer–Eclipses,FlaresandOutbursts 305–307
DubravkaKotnik-Karuza,MichaelFriedjungandPatriciaWhitelock/AnalysisofNearInfraredObservations
oftheSymbioticMiraRRTel 309–311
Christos Papadimitriou, Emilios Harlaftis and Danny Steeghs / The Structure and the Partial Opacity of the
SpiralShocksontheNovalikeCataclysmicVariables 313–314
Michael Friedjung, Andrej Dobrotka, Alon Retter, Ladislav Hric and Rudolf Nova´k / Deductions from the
IndicationofEclipsesofNovaV1493Aql 315–317
O.Giannakis,E.T.Harlaftis,P.G.Niarchos,S.Kitsionas,H.Barwig,M.StillandR.G.M.Rutten/Mappingof
theDiscStructureoftheNeutronStarX-rayBinaryX1822-371 319–320
SlavekM.Rucinski/TheDDOShort-PeriodBinaryRVProgram 321–325
K.Pavlovski,D.E.Holmgren,P.Koubsky´,J.SouthworthandS.Yang/AbundancesfromDisentangledCom-
ponentSpectraofCloseBinaryStars:AnObservationalTestofanEarlyMixinginHigh-MassStars 327–330
KlausG.Strassmeier/DopplerImagingofRapidly-RotatingMStars 331–334
PetrHadrava/DisentanglingoftheSpectraofBinaryStars–Principles,ResultsandFutureDevelopment 335–339
TseviMazeh,OmerTamuzandPierreNorth/AutomatedAnalysisofLightCurvesofOGLELMCBinaries:
ThePerioddistribution 341–344
A.PrsˇaandT.Zwitter/DisentanglingEffectiveTemperaturesofIndividualEclipsingBinaryComponentsby
MeansofColor-IndexConstraining 345–348
J. Devor and D. Charbonneau / A Method For Eclipsing Component Identification In Large Photometric
Datasets 349–352
Szila´rdCsizmadia,ZsoltKo˝va´riandPe´terKlagyivik/HαPhotometryofTwoContactBinaries 353–355
T.Borkovits,Sz.CsizmadiaandL.Patko´s/ALibraryofEclipsingBinaryLight-Curves:FastInitialParameters
Estimation,andontheUniquenessoftheInverseProblem 357–359
Zdeneˇk Mikula´sˇek, Marek Wolf, Miloslav Zejda and Petra Pecharova´ / On Methods for the Light Curves
ExtremaDetermination 361–363
D.Montes,M.C.Ga´lvez,M.J.Ferna´ndez-FigueroaandI.Crespo-Chaco´n/LUVel(GJ375):AM3.5VeFlare
andDouble-LinedSpectroscopicBinary 365–367
S.V.Jeffers,A.CollierCameron,J.R.BarnesandJ.P.Aufdenberg/DenseSpotCoverageandPolarCapson
SVCam 369–371
ZsoltKo˝va´ri,KatalinOla´h,Ja´nosBartus,KlausG.Strassmeier,MichaelWeber,AlbertWashuettl,JohnB.Rice
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PREFACE
Close Binaries in the 21st Century: New Opportunities
and Challenges
Syros,Greece,27–30June,2005
A`lvaroGime´nez·EdwardGuinan·
PanagiotisNiarchos·SlavekRucinski
(cid:2)C SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2006
This volume contains the proceedings of the conference, but a few hundred as members of the Galaxy) to the over
CloseBinaryStarsinthe21stCentury:NewOpportunities 15000systemsnowdiscovered.Mostofthesebinarieshave
and Challenges, held during 27–30 June, 2005 on Syros, been serendipitously discovered by microlensing programs
Greece. The conference was attended by 107 participants (e.g.–MACHOandOGLE)andaremostlymembersofthe
from 31 countries from all over the world. The rapid ad- MagellanicCloudsandtheGalacticBulge.Itisnoteworthy
vances and discoveries that have taken place over the last thatoverthirtyoftheseextragalacticeclipsingbinariesnow
decadeinthefieldofbinarystarsmotivatedthisconference. havelightandradialvelocitycurvespermittingaccuratedis-
Thefocusonbinaryandmultiplestarsystemsisimportant tances to be found to their host galaxies that have led an
becausesurveysofstarsintheGalaxyconsistentlyshowthat improvementtothecosmicdistancescale.Moreover,during
most stars (over ∼60 percent) are members of binary and thelastfewyearsbinarystarscanbestudiedacrossnearlythe
multiplestarsystems.Becausemostoftheluminousmatter entireelectromagneticspectrum–fromgamma-andX-rays
in galaxies consists of stars, most of which are binary sys- totheradiowavelengthsthatprovidenewastrophysicalin-
tems,itiscrucialtodeterminethepropertiesofthesebinary sights not previously possible. It is noteworthy that gravity
systemssothatwecanbetterunderstandthegalaxieswhose wavesareexpectedtobesoondetectedfromclosebinaries
luminousmatterconsistsmostlyofthesestars.Moreover,the (suchasultrashortperioddoubledegeneratebinaries)with
evolution of binary stars is also responsible for large num- gravitywavedetectorssuchLISAandLIGO.
berofastrophysicallydiverseandenergeticphenomenathat Alsoaddressedbyseveralpapersatthisconferencearea
includex-raybinaries(withblackholeorneutronstarcom- newclassofsingle-linespectroscopicclosebinarysystems
ponents),cataclysmicvariablesandnovae(withwhitedwarf has been discovered that consist mostly of main-sequence
components),andsometypesofsupernovae(eg.–SNIs).As G-K star primaries and typically Jupiter-size secondaries.
important,thestudytheeclipsingbinarystarsprovidesfun- Nearly160star-planetbinary(andmultipleplanet)systems
damentalinformationaboutstarsingeneral–suchasstellar havebeenfoundandthousandsofnewstar-planetsystemsare
masses,radiiandluminosity.Thepapersinvolumeaddress expectedtobefoundwithintheseveralyearswithCOROT
these and many other exciting recent developments in the and Kepler missions. Also, several eclipsing binary star-
studyofbinarystars. planet systems have been found from high precision pho-
Advancesindetectors,technology,computers,andthein- tometry.Thesearecriticallyimportantsystemsbecausethe
creasingnumberandpoweroftelescopesbothontheground analyses of the eclipse observations permit the masses and
andinspace,aswellasnewanalysistechniquesandimproved radiioftheplanetstobefound.
theory,haveledtoarevolutioninthestudyofclosebinaries. Theprimaryaimsoftheconferencearetogiveup-to-date
Alsonoteworthyisthelargeincreaseinthenumberofclose treatmentsofthemajoradvancesthataretakingplaceinthe
binaries–fromabout2500systemsknownadecadeago(all fieldofbinarystarsoverthelastdecade.Someofthemain
sciencetopicscoveredarelistedbelow:
A`.Gime´nez((cid:1))·E.Guinan·P.Niarchos·S.Rucinski (cid:1)
RecentDevelopmentsinCloseBinaryStarResearch(Non-
ESA-ESEC,Noordwijk,TheNetherlands
DegenerateStars)
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