A Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Variable Star NSVS 3068865

Volume 43 number 2 (2015)

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Robert C. Berrington

Ball State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Muncie, IN 47306; rberring@bsu.edu

Erin M. Tuhey

Ball State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Muncie, IN 47306; emtuhey@bsu.edu

Abstract

We present new multi-band differential aperture photometry of the eclipsing variable star NSVS 3068865. The light curves are analyzed with the Wilson-Devinney model to determine best-fit stellar models. Our models show that NSVS 3068865 is consistent with a W Ursae Majoris eclipsing variable star near thermal contact with similarities to the aforementioned proto-type.