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CCD photometry of W UMa-type contact binaries in the old open cluster Berkeley 39 TEXT SIZE: A A A
Binary stars are pairs of stars that orbit around each other, and some of these binaries, called contact binaries, are so close that their surfaces touch. This article studies the photometry of several contact binaries in a cluster by observing how their brightness changes as the stars orbit each other. These new data give astronomers a better understanding of the properties of contact binaries.
 
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