Abstract
The continuous improvement in observational methods of eclipsing binaries, EBs, yield more accurate data, while the development of their light curves, that is magnitude versus time, analysis yield more precise results. Even so, and in spite the large number of EBs and the huge amount of observational data obtained mainly by space missions, the ways of getting the appropriate information for their physical parameters etc. is either from their light curves and/or from their period variations via the study of their (O-C) diagrams. The latter express the differences between the observed, O, and the calculated, C, times of minimum light. Thus, old and new light curves analysis methods of EBs to obtain their principal parameters will be considered, with examples mainly from our own observational material, and their subsequent light curves analysis using either old or new methods. Similarly, the orbital period changes of EBs via their (O-C) diagrams are referred to with emphasis on the use of continuous methods for their treatment in absence of sudden or abrupt events. Finally, a general discussion is given concerning these two topics as well as to a few related subjects.
Highlights
A lot of time has passed since the primitive observations of EBs made with naked eye till today’s space surveys
The foregoing mentioned numbers became 8401 and 40,204 from the OGLE-IV survey [5], while 493 were new discoveries from a catalogue of 1768 EBs detected in the outer region of LMC by EROS-2 [6]
Current observational estimates suggest that about more than 30% of all binary stars are in triple systems, while according to [83], the abundance of a third body in W UMa-type was found to be much greater than the estimated values concluding that most contact binaries exist in multiple star systems
Summary
A lot of time has passed since the primitive observations of EBs made with naked eye till today’s space surveys. The foregoing mentioned numbers became 8401 and 40,204 from the OGLE-IV survey [5], while 493 were new discoveries from a catalogue of 1768 EBs detected in the outer region of LMC by EROS-2 [6]. Much information for stellar structure and evolution can come out of them; special important is their role in providing fundamental data for stars as are masses, radii, etc. In spite the large number of eclipsing binaries and the huge observational data obtained mainly by space missions, the ways of getting the appropriate information for their main physical parameters etc. The main scope of the present is to pass briefly through what has been done up to now concerning the light curves treatment of EBs, while the ways of facing their orbital period changes is examined, too
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