Recent Progress in Finding Binary Systems with the B[e] Phenomenon
, Sergei V. Zharikov 4,5,6, Nadine Manset 7, Serik A. Khokhlov 3,4, Atilkhan S. Nodyarov 4, Valentina G. Klochkova 6, Stephen Danford 1, Aizhan K. Kuratova 4, Ronald Mennickent 8, S. Drew Chojnowski 9, Ashish Raj 10 and Devendra Bisht 10
Ian Stevens
Round 1
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Reviewer 2 Report
This is a well written and interesting paper. I was aware of this class of objects, but not some of the more recent developments. They are a fascinating and quite a complex and diverse class of objects. The paper has a good number of references and is a very useful review of the topic.
One query, not directly related to the paper - has anyone used the large spectral databases (SDSS/LAMOST) to do a systematic search for these sorts of objects, down to fainter magnitudes?
I note only a couple of small typographical things to be fixed before
publication - listed below.
1) Small point - you don't give the units of the period in Table 2. I know it is in days, but for binaries in general it could be minutes, hours or years.
2) Sect 4.5 you have Teff - should be T_{eff} - it is incorrect in a few places
3) p.14 "a a mathematical" - extra "a"
4| Acknowledgements:
p.15 "technical support FROM" (a word missing I think)
p.15 "aw well" --> "as well"
There may be other typos, so the authors may want to give the paper one more
read through.
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