Cepheids in Eclipsing Binaries. What and How We Can Learn About Them

Bogumił Pilecki

Eclipsing binary systems with pulsating components offer a unique possibility to accurately measure the most important parameters of pulsating stars, to study their evolution, and to test the pulsation theory. I will show what we can learn about the pulsating stars from the analysis of such systems and how we can do it. Special attention will be paid to the mass, radius, p-factor, and distance determination. Although the core of the method is based on the observations of double-lined eclipsing spectroscopic binaries, with the help of the pulsation theory, it is possible to measure absolute parameters for single-lined binaries also.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 6, 237-242 (2018)

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