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A census of massive eclipsing binaries in the Whirlpool Galaxytranslating…
arXiv:2609.19268v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a census of massive eclipsing binary (EB) candidates in the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), a face-on spiral galaxy at 7.5 Mpc with $Z\sim Z_\odot$. Using 34 epochs of red-optical Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry and a…
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