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Towards a fully automated eclipsing binary solver for Gaia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2008

Brandon Tingley
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astronomie et d'AstrophysiqueUniversité Libre de BruxellesCP226Boulevard du TriompheB-1050 BrusselsBelgium email: btingley@ulb.ac.be, gsadowski@ulb.ac.be, csiopis@ulb.ac.be
Gilles Sadowski
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astronomie et d'AstrophysiqueUniversité Libre de BruxellesCP226Boulevard du TriompheB-1050 BrusselsBelgium email: btingley@ulb.ac.be, gsadowski@ulb.ac.be, csiopis@ulb.ac.be
Christos Siopis
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astronomie et d'AstrophysiqueUniversité Libre de BruxellesCP226Boulevard du TriompheB-1050 BrusselsBelgium email: btingley@ulb.ac.be, gsadowski@ulb.ac.be, csiopis@ulb.ac.be
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Abstract

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Gaia, an ESA cornerstone mission, will obtain of the order of 100 high-precision photometric observations and lower precision radial velocity measurements over five years for around a billion stars – several hundred thousand of which will be eclipsing binaries. In order to extract the characteristics of these systems, a fully automated code must be available. During the process of this development, two tools that may be of use to the transit community have emerged: a very fast, simple, detached eclipsing binary simulator/solver based on a new approach and an interacting eclipsing binary simulator with most of the features of the Wilson-Devinney and Nightfall codes, but fully documented and written in easy-to-follow and highly portable Java. Currently undergoing development and testing, this code includes an intuitive graphical interface and an optimizer for the estimation of the physical parameters of the system.

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