4 papers
V717 Andromedae: An Active Low Mass Ratio Contact Binary
S. S. Wadhwa, M. Grozdanovic, N. F. H. Tothill +2
Multi-band photometric analysis of the contact binary V717 Andromedae (V717 And) is presented. The system is found to be an extreme low mass ratio system (q = 0.197) with high incl…
Low Mass Contact Binaries: Orbital Stability at Extreme Low Mass Ratios
Surjit S. Wadhwa, Natalia R. Landin, Bojan Arbutina +5
With the ever-increasing number of light curve solutions of contact binary systems increasing number of potential bright red nova progenitors are being reported. There remains, how…
Polarization position angle standard stars: a reassessment of and its variability for seventeen stars based on a decade of observations
Daniel V. Cotton, Jeremy Bailey, Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer +14
Observations of polarization position angle () standards made from 2014 to 2023 with the High Precision Polarimetric Instrument (HIPPI) and other HIPPI-class polarimeters in bo…
Photometric and Spectroscopic study of Ten Low Mass Ratio Contact Binary Systems: Orbital Stability, O'Connell Effect and Infra-red Calcium Line Filling
Surjit S. Wadhwa, Adam Popowicz, Raul Michel +5
Low mass ratio contact binary systems are more likely to have unstable orbits and potentially merge. In addition, such systems exhibit characteristics such as starspots and high en…