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astro-ph.SR2013★ 61 cited
Origin of W UMa-type contact binaries - age and orbital evolution
Mutlu Yildiz
Recently, our understanding of the origin of W UMa-type contact binaries has become clearer. Initial masses of their components were successfully estimated by Yıldız and Doğan usin…
astro-ph.SR2013★ 140 cited
On the origin of W UMa type Contact binaries - a new method for computation of initial masses
Mutlu Yildiz, Tuncay Dogan
W UMa type binaries have two defining characteristics. These are (i) the effective temperatures of both components are very similar, and (ii) the secondary (currently less massive)…