Period-Luminosity Relations for Ellipsoidal Binary Stars in the OGLE-III   Fields of the Large Magellanic Cloud
  We report the discovery of two distinct types of ellipsoidal binary systems occupying, so called, sequence E on the period-luminosity (P-L) diagram. We propose that steeper P-L relation is composed of giant-dwarf binaries, while the other consists of giant-giant binary systems. Analysis is based on a sample of 5334 objects, which we select from the OGLE-III survey data toward the the Large Magellanic Cloud. We show that one of the components of ellipsoidal binaries is typically either a Red Clump or a Red Giant Branch star, which leads to clear separation split of the sequence E at P = 40 d. In its short-period part, we identify two subsequences corresponding to the two types of binary systems (E2 and E3), while in the longer-period part the two groups merge forming a single subsequence E1. We extract a group of 271 ellipsoidal systems with eccentric orbits, from our sample. We present the period-luminosity relation they follow. 
M. Pawlak, I. Soszynski, P. Pietrukowicz, J. Skowron, R. Poleski, A.   Udalski, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, ...
astro-ph.SR