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	<title>A Catalogue of Parameters for Eclipsing Binaries</title>
	<altname type="ADC">2150A</altname>
		<altname type="CDS">II/150A</altname>
		<altname type="brief">Parameters of eclipsing binaries</altname>
	<reference>
		<source>
<journal>
	<title>A Catalogue of Parameters for Eclipsing Binaries</title>
	<author>
			<initial>H</initial>
			<initial>K</initial>
			<lastName>Brancewicz</lastName></author>
	<author>
			<initial>T</initial>
			<initial>Z</initial>
			<lastName>Dworak</lastName></author>
	<name>Acta Astronomica</name>
	<volume>30</volume>
	<pageno>501</pageno>
		<date>
			<year>1980</year></date>
	<bibcode>1980AcA....30..501B</bibcode></journal></source>
	<related>
			<holding role="similar">II/139 : General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS), 4th Ed. (Kholopov+ 1988)<xlink:simple href="II/139"/></holding>
			<holding role="similar">V/46 : Classical (Evolved) Algol-Type Binary Candidates (Budding 1984)<xlink:simple href="V/46"/></holding>
			  Cester B., et al.: 1979, Mem. Soc. Astron. Ital., 50, 551
    =1979MmSAI..50..551C
  Cester B., et al.: 1980, Mem. Soc. Astron. Ital., 51, 197
    =1980MmSAI..51..197C
  Koch, R.H., Plavec, M. and Wood, F.B.: 1970, "A catalogue of
    Graded Photometric studies of Close Binaries", Publ.
    Univ. Penn.  Astr. Series, Volume X, Philadelphia
  Svechnikov, M.A.: 1969, Katalog orbitalnyich elementov, mass i
    svetimostei tesnyich dvoinyich zvezd, A.M.Gorky University of
    the Urals, Sverdlovsk.</related></reference>
	<keywords parentListURL="http://messier.gsfc.nasa.gov/xml/keywordlists/adc_keywords.html">
			<keyword xlink:href="Binaries_eclipsing.html">Binaries, eclipsing</keyword></keywords>
	<descriptions>
				<description>
				<para>
    An iterative method has been used to compute the geometric and
    physical parameters of 1048 eclipsing binary stars.</para></description>
                        <details/></descriptions>
	<tableHead>
		<tableLinks>
				<tableLink xlink:href="catalog.dat">
	<title>The catalogue</title></tableLink></tableLinks>
	<fields>
		<field>
			<name>Name</name>
			<definition>Name of star</definition>
			<units>---</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>Cester</name>
			<definition>* if the star is present in Cester's
                                    (1979, 1980) catalogue &amp; first supplement</definition>
			<units>---</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>Per</name>
			<definition>Period in days</definition>
			<units>d</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>Plx</name>
			<definition>Parallax</definition>
			<units>10-5arcsec</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>Sep</name>
			<definition>Separation between the components
                                    in Solar radii</definition>
			<units>solRad</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>R1</name>
			<definition>Radius of brighter component</definition>
			<units>solRad</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>R2</name>
			<definition>Radius of fainter component</definition>
			<units>solRad</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>RL1</name>
			<definition>Percent of filling up of Roche-lobe</definition>
			<units>%</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>RL2</name>
			<definition>Percent of filling up of Roche-lobe</definition>
			<units>%</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>L1</name>
			<definition>Absolute bolometric luminosity</definition>
			<units>solLum</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>L2</name>
			<definition>Absolute bolometric luminosity</definition>
			<units>solLum</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>T1</name>
			<definition>Effective temperature</definition>
			<units>K</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>T2</name>
			<definition>Effective temperature</definition>
			<units>K</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>M</name>
			<definition>Sum of masses in solar units</definition>
			<units>solMass</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>q</name>
			<definition>Mass ratio q = M2/M1</definition>
			<units>---</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>M1</name>
			<definition>Mass of brighter component (solar masses)</definition>
			<units>solMass</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>Class</name>
			<definition>Traditional Classification
                                    from GCVS (Kukarkin et al, cat. &lt;II/139>)
	<footnote>
			<para> See GCVS (cat. &lt;II/139>), principal classes are:
     A = Algol type      E = Eclipsing binary
     B = beta Lyr type   W = W UMa type</para></footnote></definition>
			<units>---</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>Kopal</name>
			<definition>Kopal's geometrical classification
	<footnote>
			<para> this class depends on Roche-lobe radii, as:
     C = Contact system  (ex. W UMa)
     D = Detached system (ex. beta Lyr)
     S = Semi-detached system (ex. Algol = beta Per)</para></footnote></definition>
			<units>---</units></field>
		<field>
			<name>Sp</name>
			<definition>Spectrum
	<footnote>
			<para>
    The colon denotes uncertain information, round brackets denote that
    the adopted spectrum for a fainter component was taken from Koch et
    al. (1970), and square brackets that the adopted spectrum was taken
    from Svechnikov (1969)
</para></footnote></definition>
			<units>---</units></field></fields></tableHead>
	
	<history>
		<ingest>
	
			<creator>
				<lastName>Joseph Florsch , Francois Ochsenbein</lastName>
				<affiliation>CDS</affiliation></creator>
	<date>
		<year>1996</year><month>Jun</month><day>21</day></date></ingest>
		
		<revisions>
	<revision>
		<creator>
			<lastName>UNKNOWN</lastName></creator>
		<date><year>UNKNOWN</year></date>
		<para>  * The catalogue was keystroked at CDS in 1987 from the published table,
    which is of poor quality
  * 21-Jun-1996 (version A): following remarks by Eric Lefevre
    &lt;Eric.Lefevre@obspm.fr>, a consistency check of the masses was performed
    and led to corrections to the following 14 stars:
    LR ARA   RX ARI     ZZ AUR    AK AUR    UZ CMI    UW CAP    V402 CEN
    NY CEP   V388 CYG   BO HER    LX PER    AW UMA    RV VEL    TT VEL
  * 29-Jun-1999: corrected NU SGR into UPS SGR (F. Ochsenbein)</para></revision></revisions></history>
	<identifier>II_150A.xml</identifier></dataset>
