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Contact Binaries with Additional Components. III. A Search Using Adaptive Optics

S. M. RucińskiDepartment of Astronomy, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, CanadaT. PribullaAstronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 059 60 Tatranská Lomnica, SlovakiaM. H. van KerkwijkDepartment of Astronomy, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada

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We present results of the CFHT adaptive optics search for companions of a homogeneous group of contact binary stars, as a contribution to our attempts to prove a hypothesis that these binaries require a third star to become so close as observed. In addition to companions directly discovered at separations of >=1", we introduced a new method of AO image analysis utilizing distortions of the AO diffraction ring pattern at separations of 0.07"-1". Very close companions, with separations in the latter range were discovered in systems HV Aqr, OO Aql, CK Boo, XY Leo, BE Scl, and RZ Tau. More distant companions were detected in V402 Aur, AO Cam, V2082 Cyg. Our results provide a contribution to the mounting evidence that the presence of close companions is a very common phenomenon for very close binaries with orbital periods <1 day.

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DOI: 10.1086/523353

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