{"id":169329,"date":"2023-08-09T10:28:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/research-investigates-eclipsing-binary-css-j003106-8313347"},"modified":"2023-08-09T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:28:25","slug":"research-investigates-eclipsing-binary-css-j003106-8313347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/research-investigates-eclipsing-binary-css-j003106-8313347","title":{"rendered":"Research investigates eclipsing binary CSS J003106.8+313347"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-investigates-eclipsing-binary-css-j003106-83133473.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a private observatory, astronomers have performed the first photometric study of a peculiar W UMa-type binary known as CSS J003106.8+313347. Results of the study, published July 27 on the preprint server <i>arXiv<\/i>, shed more light on the properties of this system.<\/p>\n<p>In general, W Ursae Majoris-type, or W UMa-type binaries (EWs) are eclipsing binaries with a short orbital period (below one day) and continuous light variation during a cycle. They are composed of two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dwarf+stars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dwarf stars<\/a> with similar temperature and luminosity, sharing a common envelope of material and are thus in contact with one another. Therefore, they are often dubbed \u201ccontact binaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Located some 4,900 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+years\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light years<\/a> away, CSS J003106.8+313347 is an EW with an apparent magnitude of 14.73. The orbital period of the system is estimated to be approximately 0.344 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a private observatory, astronomers have performed the first photometric study of a peculiar W UMa-type binary known as CSS J003106.8+313347. Results of the study, published July 27 on the preprint server arXiv, shed more light on the properties of this system. In general, W Ursae Majoris-type, or W UMa-type binaries (EWs) are eclipsing binaries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}