SDSS J0926+3624: The shortest period eclipsing binary star

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 410, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1113-1129

  Copperwheat, C M ^a   Marsh, T R ^a   Littlefair, S P ^b   Dhillon, V S ^b   Ramsay, G ^c   Drake, A J ^d   Gansicke B T ^a   Groot, P J ^e   Hakala, P ^f   Koester, D ^g   Nelemans, G ^e   Roelofs, G ^h   Southworth, J ⁱ   Steeghs, D ^a   Tulloch, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c ARMAGH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^h HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

ⁱ KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Binaries: eclipsing; Novae, cataclysmic variables; White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; WHITE DWARFS;

BINARIES: CLOSE; BINARIES:ECLIPSING; BINARY STAR; ECLIPSING BINARIES; LIGHT CURVES; MASS RATIO; NOVAE CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES; ORBITAL PERIODS; SHORT PERIODS; STARS: BE;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 78650705368     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17508.x     Document Type: Article

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