A CCD photometric study of the newly discovered contact binary ASAS 134738+0410.1

Abstract

We present a CCD photometric study of the star with ASAS ID 134738+ 0410.1 using V band observations obtained from the IUCAA Girawali Observatory (IGO) 2-metre telescope, India. The star was selected from the Scuti database of All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) (Pojmanski 2002). Our analysis reveals that the star is not a Scuti variable but is in fact a W UMa type contact binary with an orbital period of 0.2853067 day. Two new times of primary and secondary minima were determined from the observed data. A preliminary solution obtained using the Wilson-Devinney light curve modelling technique indicates that the star is more likely a partially-eclipsingWUMa type contact binary. However, the determination of actual subtype of this binary is quite impossible from the photometry alone, as the observed light curve can be fitted for both A- and W-type solutions. The exact classification of this binary needs to be determined from high resolution spectroscopy.