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Originally Posted by CraigS
Hi Rob;
Table 1 gives the results.
From the abstract, I'd say that they've confirmed the primary as a cepheid, used the standard candle method of accurately determining the mass of the primary. The eclipse with the secondary seems to then have been used to check the accuracies of the respective models.
Not sure though. Interesting, none-the-less.
Cheers |
Yes, the article says that the smaller component is the Cepheid. From your Table 1, they are the same mass so they must be basing it on radius, which means the primary, which is of smaller radius but greater luminosity, is the Cepheid.
Regards, Rob