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Effective Temperature and the Light Curve Solution of Contact Binary Systems

Filipović, M. D.; Tothill, N. F. H.; Wadhwa, S. +1 more

With an increasing number of contact binary discoveries and the recognition that luminous red novae are the result of contact binary merger events, there has been a significant increase in the number of light curve solutions appearing in the literature. One key element of such solutions is assigning and fixing the effective temperature of the prim…