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To appear in ApJ. GU Boo: A New 0.6 M⊙ Detached Eclipsing Binary Mercedes L´opez-Morales1,2 Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, 5241 Broad Branch Rd. NW, Washington D.C., 20015, USA mercedes@dtm.ciw.edu and Ignasi Ribas Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya/CSIC, Campus UAB, Facultat de Ci`encies, Torre C5 - parell - 2a planta, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain iribas@ieec.uab.es ABSTRACT We have found a new low-mass, double-lined, detached eclipsing binary, GU Boo, among a sample of new variables from the ROTSE-I database. The binary has an orbital period of 0.488728 ± 0.000002 days, and estimated apparent mag- nitudes Vrotse ≃ 13.7 and I ≃ 11.8. Our analysis of the light and radial velocity curves of the system yields individual masses and radii of M = 0.610 ± 0.007 1 M , M = 0.599 ± 0.006 M , R = 0.623 ± 0.016 R , R = 0.620 ± 0.020 R . ⊙ 2 ⊙ 1 ⊙ 2 ⊙ The stars in GU Boo are therefore very similar to the components of the eclipsing binary YY Gem. For this study we have adopted a mean effective temperature for the binary of Teff = 3870 ± 130 K. Based on its space velocities we suggest that GU Boo is a main sequence binary, possibly with an age of several Gyr. The metallicity of the binary is not well constrained at this point but we speculate that it should no