Discovery of a stripped red giant core in a bright eclipsing binary system★
Discovery of a stripped red giant core in a bright eclipsing binary system★
We have identified a star in the WASP archive photometry with an unusual lightcurve due to the total eclipse of a small, hot star by an apparently normal A-type star and with an orbital period of only 0.668d. From an analysis of the WASP lightcurve together with V-band and I_C-band …