TY - JOUR
TI - Evolution of low mass contact binaries close to the orbital period cut-off
AU - Loukaidou, G.
AU - Gazeas, K.
JO - CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY SKALNATE PLESO
PY - 2020
VL - 50
TODO - 2
SP - 461-462
PB - ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE. SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
SN - 1335-1842
TODO - 10.31577/CAOSP.2020.50.2.461
TODO - null
TODO - The evolution of eclipsing binaries leads towards angular momen-tum and mass loss from the systems, due to stellar wind and magnetic braking. Observational investigations of low-temperature and low-mass contact binaries (or LMCBs) in the solar neighborhood provide the means for studying a large sample of such systems. The observed orbital period cut-off limit of 0.22 days is believed to be a result of evolutionary mechanisms, and such systems act as probes in investigating the very evolved stages of systems before their final coalescence. The main goal of this study is the determination of the stellar evolution tracks of these type of LMCBs, which might be correlated to the formation of blue stragglers and rapidly rotating stars. © 2020 Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences.
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