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Massive Close Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Virpi S. Niemela
Affiliation:
1. Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, CC67, Suc. 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lilia P. Bassino
Affiliation:
2. Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas, U.N.L.P., Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina

Abstract

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We present spectroscopic orbits for 4 eclipsing binary systems in the Magellanic Clouds. The minimum masses that we find for the binary components in the LMC are: 34 + 17 M⊙ for HV 2241 and 26 + 15 M⊙ for HV 2543, and for the ones in the SMC: 21 + 25 M⊙ for AzV 73 and 17 + 19 M⊙ for HV 1620.

Type
Oral and Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992 

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