Session S10 - Poster Session (During Extended Coffee Breaks Throughout Conference).
POSTER session, Friday afternoon, October 24
Cochise, Memorial Union
New photometric observations were taken for V802 Aql, a W Ursae Majoris eclipsing binary system, between the nights of July 22, 2000 and August 31, 2003. V802 Aql was originally classified as a High Amplitude Delta Scuti (Bakos, 1950) and more recently as a W Ursae Majoris (Van Cauteren et. al., 2001, Hintz, 2000). Light curves generated from new data show it is a W Ursae Majoris type, and a more accurate period has been determined. New times of primary and secondary minima are included, and can be used in future research for changes in the star’s period. In addition to the period of the star, several other parameters for the system have been estimated by fitting our data to a curve using Nightfall software. These other parameters, including mass, are useful in the understanding the evolutionary path of stars in general.