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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 …