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Close Binary Star Observables: Modeling Innovations 2003-06

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2007

R. E. Wilson
R. E. Wilson*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA email:wilson@astro.ufl.edu
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Innovative work on close binary models in 2003-06 improved upon synthesized line spectra, line profiles, and polarimetry; developed new ways of parameter estimation; and increased solution effectiveness and efficiency. Recent applications demonstrate the analytic power of binary system line spectrum models that pre-date the triennium. X-ray binary line profiles and radial velocity curves were refined by solution of the radiative transfer problem with specific inclusion of X-irradiation. Model polarization curves were generated by Monte Carlo experiments with multiple Thomson scattering in thin and thick binary system disks. In the parameter estimation area, independent developments by two groups now allow measurement of ephemerides, apsidal motion, and third body parameters from whole light and velocity curves, to supplement the traditional way of eclipse timings. Although the new route to those parameters is not well known within the ephemeris community, there are accuracy advantages and the number of applications is increasing. Numerical solution experiments on photometric mass ratios have checked two views of their intuitive basis, and show that mass ratios are well determined where star radii and limiting lobe radii are both well determined, which is for semi-detached or over-contact binaries with total-annular eclipses. Solution efficiency and automatic operation is needed for processing of light curves from large surveys, and will also be valuable for preliminary solutions of individually observed binaries. Neural networks have mainly been used for classification, and now a neural network program reliably finds preliminary solutions for W UMa binaries. Archived model light curves and Fourier fitting also are being pursued for classification and for preliminary solutions. Light curves in physical units such as erg·sec−1·cm−3 now allow direct distance estimation by combining the absolute accuracy of model stellar atmospheres with the astrophysical detail of a physical close binary model, by means of rigorous scaling between surface emission and observable flux. A Temperature-distance (T-d) theorem specifies conditions under which temperatures of both stars and distance can be found from light and velocity curves.

Keywords

radiative transferpolarizationscatteringmethods: analyticalstars: atmospheresstars: distances(stars:) binaries: eclipsing(stars:) binaries (including multiple): close(stars:) binaries: spectroscopic
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S240: Binary Stars as Critical Tools & Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics , August 2006 , pp. 188 - 197
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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