• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.69-69
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• 2006

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.32.1-32.1
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• 2010

The BVR CCD observations of the solar-type contact binary GW Cephei, known as very active dynamically and photometrically, has been made for 20 nights from Nov. 03, 2008 to Dec. 31, 2008 with 1-m reflector of Jincheon station of Chungbuk National University Observatory. A total of 2035 measurements (B: 647, V: 722, R: 666) were obtained to secure new multi-color light curves. From our observations fifteen times of minimum light were newly determined. In this paper both a new period study and an intensive light synthesis were made. Our results will be compared and discussed with the latest thorough studies of the system by Lee et al. (2010).

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.185-195
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• 1994

Using $1024\times1024$ pixels CCD camera of ChungBuk National University Observatory (CBNUO), 62 photometric observations were made on January 11-12, 1993. A time of minimum lights of U Cep was determined as JD Hel 2448999.7274 from our data. On October 21-22 in 1993, CCD photometry in V and R for GW Cephei and V700 Cygni was carried out with 309${\times}$584 pixels cooled CCD system of Behlen Observatory, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (BOUNL) and 168 observations were obtained. From the data times of minimum lights JD Hel 2449282.8485 for GW Cep and JD Hel 2449282.7979 were determined. To developed a new CCD system of CBNUO, the CCD photometry method using at CBNUO is compared with at BOUNL.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.89-96
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• 2010

BVR CCD observations of GW Cep were made on 15 nights in November through December 2008 with a 1-m reflector at the Jincheon station of the Chungbuk National University Observatory. Nineteen new times of minimum lights for GW Cep were determined and added to a collection of all other times of minima available to us. These data were then intensively analyzed, by reference to an O-C diagram, to deduce the general form of period variation for GW Cep. It was found that the O-C diagram could be interpreted as presenting two different forms of period change: an exclusively quasi-sinusoidal change with a period of 32.6 years and an eccentricity of 0.10; and a quasi-sinusoidal change with a period of 46.2 years and an eccentricity of 0.36 superposed on an upward parabola. Although a final conclusion is somewhat premature at present, the latter seems more plausible because late-type contact binaries allow an inter-exchange of both energy and mass between the component stars. The quasi-sinusoidal characteristics were interpreted in terms of a light-time effect due to an unseen tertiary component. The minimum masses of the tertiary component for both cases were calculated to be nearly the same as the $0.23-0.26M\;{\odot}$-ranges which is hardly detectable in a light curve synthesis. The upward parabolic O-C diagram corresponding to a secular period increase of about $4.12{\times}10^{-8}\;d/yr$ was interpreted as mass being transferred from the lesser to more massive component. The transfer rate for a conservative case was calculated to be about $2.66\;{\times}\;10^{-8}\;M_{\odot}/yr$ which is compatible with other W UMa-type contact binaries.