Class: EclipsingBinary

Eclipsing Binary

•owl:Thing
        •AstrObject
                •CompoundObject
                        •MultipleStar
                                •DoubleStar
                                        •EclipsingBinary
                •VariableObject
                        •EclipsingBinary

Super Classes

VariableObject

Equivalent Classes (Necessary and Sufficient Conditions)

DoubleStar
hasProcessVariabilityPeriodic SOME Eclipse

Annotations

misc:descriptionBinary systems with orbital planes so close to the observer's line of sight (the inclination i of the orbital plane to the plane orthogonal to the line of sight is close to 90 deg) that the components periodically eclipse each other. Consequently, the observer finds changes of the apparent combined brightness of the system with the period coincident with that of the components' orbital motion.
simbad:nameEB*
simbad:shortCodeEB*
vizier:kwdBinaries:eclipsing

Usage

Class Description/Definition (Necessary Conditions)

EclipsingBinary, EclipsingBinaryAlgol, EclipsingBinaryBetaLyrae, EclipsingBinaryWUMa
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