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2008MNRAS.385.2239N - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 385, 2239-2242 (2008/April-3)

Luminosity function of contact binaries at high galactic latitudes towards the LMC and the SMC.

NEF P.D. and RUCINSKI S.M.

Abstract (from CDS):

Using the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) catalogue of eclipsing binaries, 15 contact binaries were identified towards the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Large Magellanic Cloud at vertical distances from the Galactic plane between 300 pc and 10 kpc. Based on the luminosity function calculated for these contact binaries, we estimated a frequency of occurrence relative to Main Sequence stars in the thick disc at roughly. This estimate suffers from the small number statistics, but is consistent with the value previously found for the solar neighbourhood.

Abstract Copyright: ©2008 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2008 RAS

Journal keyword(s): binaries: eclipsing - stars: luminosity function, mass function

Simbad objects: 19

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