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astro-ph.SR2016
Searching for twins of the V1309 Sco progenitor system: a selection of long-period contact binaries
Alexander Kurtenkov
The only well-studied red nova progenitor (V1309 Sco) was a contact binary with a 1.4-day period. The prospects for searching for similar systems, as well as stellar merger candida…
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Improved proper motion determinations for 15 open clusters based on the UCAC4 catalog
Alexander Kurtenkov, Nadezhda Dimitrova, Alexander Atanasov +1
The proper motions of 15 nearby (d < 1 kpc) open clusters were recalculated using data from the UCAC4 catalog. Only evolved or main sequence stars inside a certain radius from the…