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One, two, or three stars? An investigation of an unusual eclipsing binary candidate undergoing dramatic period changes

One, two, or three stars? An investigation of an unusual eclipsing binary candidate undergoing dramatic period changes

We report our investigation of 1SWASP J234401.81āˆ’212229.1, a variable with a 18 461.6 s period. After identification in a 2011 search of the SuperWASP archive for main-sequence eclipsing binary candidates near the distributionā€™s short-period limit of ~0.20 d, it was measured to be undergoing rapid period decrease in our earlier ā€¦