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Photometric solution for the eclipsing binary system AO Camelopardalis

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UBV light curves of AO Cam were analyzed with Wilson and Devinney's model. The system was found to be a contact configuration with a degree of overcontact of 1.4%. The mass ratio of the system is about 1.30, and the inclination is 75 0. 9. The primary eclipse appears to be an occultation. Thus AO Cam has the characteristics of a W-type W UMa system. Its location in a period-spectral type diagram suggests that the system may be a zero-age contact system.

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  1. David B. Cooke

    Present address: Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

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    David B. Cooke & Kam-Ching Leung

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Cooke, D.B., Leung, KC. Photometric solution for the eclipsing binary system AO Camelopardalis. Astrophys Space Sci 113, 25–31 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00650268

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