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Table 1.

Types of geometric models fitting the G light curves.

Model type No. of Model Description No. of
params rank sources
TWOGAUSSIANS 8 6 Two Gaussians 1 587 926
TWOGAUSSIANS_WITH_ELLIPSOIDAL_ON_ECLIPSE1 9 5 Two Gaussians + cosine (a) aligned on Gaussian 1 389 725
TWOGAUSSIANS_WITH_ELLIPSOIDAL_ON_ECLIPSE2 9 4 Two Gaussians + cosine (a) aligned on Gaussian 2 85 400
Total with two Gaussians 2 063 051

ONEGAUSSIAN 5 3 One Gaussian. 36 984
ONEGAUSSIAN_WITH_ELLIPSOIDAL 6 2 One Gaussian + cosine (a) 48 215
Total with one Gaussian 85 199

ELLIPSOIDAL 4 1 A cosine (a) 36 227

All 2 184 477

Notes. The columns give the model type, the number of model parameters, the ranking used in model prioritisation, a description of the model type, and the number of sources of the given type in the Gaia DR3 table vari_eclipsing_binary.

(a)

Cosine function with half the orbital period.

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