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Re: Some new eclipsing binaries



Patrick,

I should have a few more observations on these when I get the current 
pipeline reprocessed.

Tom Droege

At 03:27 PM 1/26/03 -0800, you wrote:
>I have analysed Stardial images (http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/stardial/)
>between 1999 and 2002, of a number of regions in the constellation
>Monoceros.  To reduce the unfiltered, red sensitive CCD images to
>magnitude lists, use was made of programs written by Michael Richmond
>(see http://www.tass-survey.org, hereby gratefully acknowledged).  The
>data revealed a number of new eclipsing binaries, which are listed
>below.
>
>  RA       Dec     ID     Type Ampl   Epoch    Freq c/d  Note
>104.575 -4.635  HD 51697  EA   0.2  2452640.75  1.798
>105.271 -3.967  HD 52433  EA   0.3  2451586.64  1.339
>108.783 -4.745  HD296761  EW   0.7  2452233.88  1.722
>114.767 -2.657  BD-2 220  EW   0.4  2452323.65  1.440  BD-2 221?
>121.574 -4.447  HD 67093  EA   0.5  2452252.86  0.461
>
>Positions for 2000 are given in decimal degrees.  One Stardial pixel
>corresponds to about 0.5', and the positional precision (averages over
>more than one hundred images) is on the order of 20".
>The identifications were made using Guide software
>(http://www.projectpluto.com) and the VizieR utility at the CDS in
>Strasbourg (http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/VizieR).  Note that the
>stars BD-2 220 and BD-2 221 are blended on a Stardial image, therefore
>the true identification of the variable is not clear.
>
>The frequency (in cycles/day) is given as a guide only (for EW stars, 2
>minima are counted per cycle, for EA stars only one minimum): Stardial
>takes images separated by exactly one sidereal day, and the periodogram
>is therefore heavily contaminated with aliases.  Any alias of the given
>frequency may be the correct one.  One night's observations might
>reveal the true period.
>
>Observations are most welcome.
>
>Patrick
>
>
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