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V Ponce (UVa), R Williamon (Fernbank), J Sowell (GA Tech)
YY Cet is an Algol system with partial eclipses and a period of 19 hours. The components appear to be slightly evolved A/F and G/K stars. UBV photometry has been acquired over four seasons with the 36-inch telescope at the DeKalb County (GA) School System's Fernbank Science Center. Times of minimum have been determined per filter and season, and a literature search has provided additional values for examining the possibility of period changes. Preliminary light curve solutions using all of our data have been derived with the Wilson-Devinney binary star code.
V. Ponce wishes to acknowledge support from the NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program administered through the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: jim.sowell@physics.gatech.edu