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Hi, I'm from Chile, I made this catalog with more than 700 binary stars and I would like to share it. You have to delete nearstars because I combine them. I'm sorry, well if someone wants to see, modify or review it

Hi,

Nice !

Are you ready to update the file frequently (like sirius_alpha do it) ?

What happens is that Sirius was thought to have a third star and delete it, sorry you have to remove that baricenter

https://francis.naukas.com/2013/01/22/que-paso-con-la-estrella-sirio-c

Hi, what source(s) did you use for all the binary orbits?

I got it from https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrella_binaria_de_contacto
calculate with

r1=(m2*d)/(m1+m2) d=r1+r2
r2=(m1*d)/(m1+m2)

T**2=k*(r1+r2)**3/(m1+m2)

h2=max close up
h1=min close up

r1=((h1+h2)/2)*m2/(m1+m2)

r2=((h1+h2)/2)*m1/(m1+m2)

e=(h2-h1)/(h2+h1)

So you used this paper for contact binary stars, right?