RT Scl

Bradstreet2004 - Bradstreet2004y (Stromgren y)

The solution presented is an amalgamation of work by the authors noted in the references along with my own solution. The hot spot placement on star 2 (less massive, cooler component) is from Banks et al. (1990) and the mass ratio is from Hilditch & King (1986). From the shape of the light curve and the difference in depths of the eclipses it appears that RT Scl is a contact system still in the process of coming together and reaching thermal equilibrium. (See the other contact system light curves in this atlas.) Limb darkening coefficients were taken from Van Hamme (1993).