New Observations of Close Eclipsing Binary Systems with
delta Scuti Pulsations
Garrison Turner
Big Sandy Community and Technical College, Prestonsburg, KY 41653
Ronald Kaitchuck
Ball State University Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Muncie, IN 47306
John Holaday
Purdue University Dept. of Material Engineering, Lafayette, IN, 47907
Received October 23, 2013; revised November 19, 2013; accepted December 6, 2013
Abstract
In this paper we present the detection of delta Scuti-type pulsations in three close eclipsing binary systems (EV Ori, FO Ori, X Tri) as part of a photometric observing campaign of fourteen such systems. These observations were done as part of an ongoing effort to find such objects as they are of great value for checking theoretical models of stellar characteristics against empirically determined parameters.