A Application of WD Model to EB Type Contact Binary System

Abstract

The EB type contact binaries show large temperature difference ( T 1,000K) between two components. Thus we have modified the mode 3 of the WD program to adjust albedos, limb darkening coefficients and gravity darkening exponents for both components of such binaries, while the values for those parameters should be same for both components in the original WD program. Both of the modified and the original versions have been applied to the EB type contact binaries such as DO Cas, GO Cyg, and FS Lup. The computed light curves with modified version fit better to the observations.

Keywords

• STARS
• CONTACT BINARY
• LIGHT CURVES