MP Puppis: An Eclipsing Binary with a 0.999-Day Period

Volume 23 number 1 (1994)

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Marvin E. Baldwin

8655 N. Co. Rd. 775 E, Butlerville, IN

Daniel H. Kaiser

2631 Washington Street, Columbus, IN

David B. Williams

9270-A Racquetball Way, Indianapolis, IN

Abstract

Visual, photographic, and photoelectric observations reveal that MP Puppis is a beta Lyrae-type eclipsing binary with Min. I = 0.60 V, Min. II = 0.22 V. The period is very nearly equal to the sidereal day. Current light elements are: Min. I = JD (hel.) 2449361.828 + 0.9989258 E. NOTE: The author of this article has posted an erratum: https://app.aavso.org/jaavso/article/1474/