2139 20160701171659.0 10.1093/mnras/stu1151 DOI ASTROimport-296 Muraveva, T. 2014 Eclipsing binary stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: results from the EROS-2, OGLE and VMC surveys We present a catalogue of 1768 eclipsing binary stars (EBs) detected in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by the second generation of the EROS survey (hereinafter EROS-2); 493 of them are new discoveries located in outer regions (out of the central bar) of the LMC. These sources were originally included in a list of candidate classical Cepheids (CCs) extracted from the EROS-2 catalogue on the basis of the period (0.89 PEROS 15.85 d) versus luminosity [13.39 EROS> 17.82 mag] diagram. After visual inspection of the light curves we reclassified them as eclipsing binaries. They have blue colours (BEROS - REROS 0.2 mag) hence we classed them as hot eclipsing binaries (HEBs) containing hot massive components: main sequence (MS) stars or blue giants. We present Ks-band light curves for 999 binaries from our sample that have a counterpart in the VISTA near-infrared ESO public survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC). We provide spectral classifications of 13 HEBs with existing spectroscopy. We divided our sample into contact-like binaries and detached/semi-detached systems based on both visual inspection and the parameters of the Fourier decomposition of the light curves and analysed the period-luminosity (PL) relations of the contact-like systems using the REROS and Ks magnitudes at maximum light. The contact-like binaries in our sample do not follow PL relations. We analysed the sample of contact binaries from the OGLE III catalogue and confirmed that PLI and PL_{K_s} sequences are defined only by eclipsing binaries containing a red giant component. Clementini, G. Maceroni, C. Evans, C. J. Moretti, M. I. Cioni, M.-R. L. Marquette, J. B. Ripepi, V. de Grijs, R. Groenewegen, M. A. T. Piatti, A. E. van Loon, J. T. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 443 1 2014 432-445 http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2014MNRAS.443..432M published in REFERD