ABSOLUTE PROPERTIES OF THE LOW-MASS ECLIPSING BINARY CM DRACONIS
@article{Morales2008ABSOLUTEPO, title={ABSOLUTE PROPERTIES OF THE LOW-MASS ECLIPSING BINARY CM DRACONIS}, author={Juan Carlos Morales and Ignasi Ribas and Carme Jordi and Guillermo Torres and Jos{\'e} A. Gallardo and Edward F. Guinan and David Charbonneau and Marek Wolf and David W. Latham and Guillem Anglada-Escud{\'e} and David H. Bradstreet and Mark E. Everett and Francis T. O'Donovan and Georgi I. Mandushev and Robert D. Mathieu}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2008}, volume={691}, pages={1400 - 1411} }
Spectroscopic and eclipsing binary systems offer the best means for determining accurate physical properties of stars, including their masses and radii. The data available for low-mass stars have yielded firm evidence that stellar structure models predict smaller radii and higher effective temperatures than observed, but the number of systems with detailed analyses is still small. In this paper, we present a complete reanalysis of one of such eclipsing systems, CM Dra, composed of two dM4.5…
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