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On the orbital eccentricity on an eclipsing binary system

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A new method is presented to precisely deduce the orbital eccentricity of an eclipsing binary from observed epochs of its light minima. Application to the system V526 Sagittarii givese=0.2220±0.0016.

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Todoran, I. On the orbital eccentricity on an eclipsing binary system. Astrophys Space Sci 15, 229–235 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00649917

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