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Photometric Study Of The Short-Period Eclipsing Binary V441 Lac, Daimei Wang, Liyun Zhang, Xianming Han, Franz Agerer, Qingfeng Pi, Shuai Wang Oct 2015

Photometric Study Of The Short-Period Eclipsing Binary V441 Lac, Daimei Wang, Liyun Zhang, Xianming Han, Franz Agerer, Qingfeng Pi, Shuai Wang

Xianming Han

We present the first multi-color VRI CCD light curves of a short-period eclipsing binary star v441 Lac in this paper. We obtained our light curves on Oct. 4 and 8, 2013 at Xinglong station of National Astronomical Observatories, China. We updated the ephemeris of V441 Lac based on three new minima derived by our new observational data together with previously available light curve minima. By fitting the O−C (observed minus calculated) values of the minima, we found that the orbital period of V441 Lac exhibits an increasing trend of Ṗ=5.67(0.35)×10^-7 days/year, which might be explained by mass transfer from the …


The First Multi-Color Photometric Study Of The Short-Period Contact Eclipsing Binary Gk Aqr, Liyun Zhang, Qingfeng Pi, Xianming Han, Tongan Li, Xiliang Zhang, Hongyan Sang, Daimei Wang, Shuai Wang Oct 2015

The First Multi-Color Photometric Study Of The Short-Period Contact Eclipsing Binary Gk Aqr, Liyun Zhang, Qingfeng Pi, Xianming Han, Tongan Li, Xiliang Zhang, Hongyan Sang, Daimei Wang, Shuai Wang

Xianming Han

We made the first VRI CCD light curves of the short-period contact eclipsing binary GK Aqr, which was observed on October 5 and 8, 2013 at Xinglong station of National Astronomical Observatories, China. The ephemeris of GK Aqr was calculated based on our two newly obtained minima and the minima that other observers obtained previously. We discovered that the orbital period of GK Aqr exhibits an increasing trend of Ṗ=2.8(0.1)×10^-7 days/year by means of fitting the O-C values of the minima. This phenomenon might be explained by mass transfer from the primary (less massive) component to the secondary (more massive) …


Dr. Linda French: Don’T Limit Yourself (Interview With Kelsi Singer), Linda French Sep 2015

Dr. Linda French: Don’T Limit Yourself (Interview With Kelsi Singer), Linda French

Linda French

Dr. Linda French is Professor of Physics and past Chair of the Physics Department at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she has been a professor since 2002. She received her A.B. in astronomy from Indiana University and a Ph. D. in planetary astronomy from Cornell University. Her scientific research, funded by the National Science Foundation, concerns the study of the shapes and surfaces of asteroids and comets. She is a frequent guest observer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona and at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile, and is often accompanied by students on these research trips.


Disk-Outflow Models As Applied To High Mass Star Forming Regions Through Methanol And Water Maser Observations, Hontas Farmer Apr 2014

Disk-Outflow Models As Applied To High Mass Star Forming Regions Through Methanol And Water Maser Observations, Hontas Farmer

Hontas F Farmer

As the recent publication by Breen et al (2013) found Class II methanol masers are exclusively associated with high mass star forming regions. Based on the positions of the Class I and II methanol and H2O masers, UC H~II regions and 4.5~μm infrared sources, and the center velocities (vLSR) of the Class I methanol and H2O masers, compared to the vLSR of the Class II methanol masers, we propose three disk-outflow models that may be traced by methanol masers. In all three models, we have located the Class II methanol maser near the protostar, and the Class I methanol maser …


Disk-Outflow Models As Applied To High Mass Star Forming Regions Through Methanol And Water Maser Observations, Hontas Farmer Nov 2013

Disk-Outflow Models As Applied To High Mass Star Forming Regions Through Methanol And Water Maser Observations, Hontas Farmer

Hontas F Farmer

As the recent publication by Breen et al (2013) found Class II methanol masers are exclusively associated with high mass star forming regions. Based on the positions of the Class I and II methanol and H2O masers, UC H II regions and 4.5 μm infrared sources, and the center velocities (vLSR) of the Class I methanol and H2O masers, compared to the vLSR of the Class II methanol masers, we propose three disk-outflow models that may be traced by methanol masers. In all three models, we have located the Class II methanol maser near the protostar, and the Class I …


Insights Into High Mass Star Formation From Methanol Maser Observations., Hontas Freeman Farmer Jun 2013

Insights Into High Mass Star Formation From Methanol Maser Observations., Hontas Freeman Farmer

Hontas F Farmer

We present high angular resolution data on Class I and Class II methanol masers, together with other tracers of star formation like H2O masers, ultracompact (UC) ionized hydrogen (H II) regions, and 4.5 μm infrared sources, taken from the literature. The aim is to study what these data tell us about the process of high mass star formation; in particular, whether disk-outflow systems are compatible with the morphology exhibited by Class I and Class II methanol masers. Stars form in the dense cores inside molecular clouds, and while the process of the formation of stars like our Sun is reasonably …