The MOA catalogue of eclipsing binary stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

• Published in: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 331; no. 3; pp. 609 - 614
• Main Authors: Bayne, G., Tobin, W., Pritchard, J. D., Bond, I., Pollard, K. R., Besier, S. C., Noda, S., Sumi, T., Yanagisawa, T., Sekiguchi, M., Honda, M., Muraki, Y., Takeuti, M., Hearnshaw, J. B., Kilmartin, P. M., Dodd, R. J., Sullivan, D. J., Yock, P. C. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Science, Ltd 11.04.2002
• Subjects: binaries: eclipsing; catalogues; gravitational lensing; Magellanic Clouds
• ISSN: 0035-8711; 1365-2966
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05010.x

We present a catalogue of 167 eclipsing binary stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) derived from the data base of time-series photometry for 400 000 SMC stars acquired by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) project during 1997. We print coordinates, ephemerides, magnitudes and light curves for the 35 new detections; similar data and finding charts are available electronically for the whole catalogue. The majority of periods lie within the range 0.4 to 20 d; six systems are possibly eccentric while 14 are probably or certainly so. The majority of the newly identified systems lie in the outer regions of the SMC.