Eclipsing Binary Stars: Modelling and Analysis
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book covers the formulation of mathematical models for the light curves of eclipsing binary stars and the algorithms to generate such models. This edition has new physics in light curve models and distance fitting, new applications and updated references.
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This book covers the formulation of mathematical models for the light curves of eclipsing binary stars and the algorithms to generate such models. This edition has new physics in light curve models and distance fitting, new applications and updated references.
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Have you ever stopped at a construction project on the way to your of?ce and the day's astrophysics? Remember the other onlookers - folks just enjoying the sp- tacle, as we all do in following developments away from our areas of active work? We are excited and thrilled when the Hubble Space Telescope discovers an Einstein Cross, when the marvelous pulsars enter our lives, and when computer scientists put a little box on our desk that outperforms yesterday's giant machines. We are free to make use of such achievements and we respect the imagination and discipline needed to bring them about, just as onlookers respect the abilities and planning needed to create a building they may later use. After all, each of us contributes in our own areas as best as we can. In addition to the serious onlookers there will be passersby who take only a casual look at the site. They may use the building later, but have little or no interest in its construction and give no thought to the resources needed tobring it to completion. Upon arriving at work, those persons write astronomy and astrophysics books at various levels, in which they must say something about close binary stars. Usually a page or two will do, and the emphasis is on the MLR (mass, luminosity, radius) data obtained only from binaries.
This book focuses on the formulation of mathematical models for the light curves of eclipsing binary stars, and on the algorithms for generating such models. Since information gained from binary systems provides much of what we know of the masses, luminosities, and radii of stars, such models are acquiring increasing importance in studies of stellar structure and evolution. As in other areas of science, the computer revolution has given many astronomers tools that previously only specialists could use; anyone with access to a set of data can now expect to be able to model it. This book will provide astronomers, both amateur and professional, with a guide for specifying an astrophysical model for a set of observations, selecting an algorithm to determine the parameters of the model and estimating the errors of the parameters. It is written for readers with knowledge of basic calculus and linear algebra; appendices cover mathematical details on such matters as optimization, coordinate systems, and specific models. While emphasizing the physical and mathematical framework, the discussion remains close to the problems if actual implementation. It begins with an overview of the problem and a discussion of the observational data that form the basis of any model. The treatment then turns to the direct problem (computing the light curve and other observables from the a given set of parameters) and then to the indirect problem (determining a best-fit set of parameters from the data). The book concludes with chapters on specific models and approaches and the authors' views on the structure of future light-curve programs.
The second edition consists of corrections of errors. There a is new physics in light curve models mentioned. Inclusive are distance fitting and implications on T1. Other improvements within the 2E: third stars - dynamical effects, spot variation over various epochs and simultaneous fitting, new features in the WD program, new applications in astronomy and astrophysics, transits in extra solar planetary systems, planetary simulation work, GAIA project - analyzing huge amounts of data, light curve analysis for non-eclipsing binary star people, new interesting literature cases, Milone's papers, other interesting papers, new (software) developments in the eclipsing binary community, PHOEBE, Binary Maker 3.0 and finally ephemerides from whole light and velocity curves.
The second edition consists of corrections of errors. There a is new physics in light curve models mentioned. Inclusive are distance fitting and implications on T1. Other improvements within the 2E: third stars - dynamical effects, spot variation over various epochs and simultaneous fitting, new features in the WD program, new applications in astronomy and astrophysics, transits in extra solar planetary systems, planetary simulation work, GAIA project - analyzing huge amounts of data, light curve analysis for non-eclipsing binary star people, new interesting literature cases, Milone's papers, other interesting papers, new (software) developments in the eclipsing binary community, PHOEBE, Binary Maker 3.0 and finally ephemerides from whole light and velocity curves.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Eclipsing Binary Stars: Modelling and Analysis “
- Introduction- The Data Base and Methods of Acquisition
- A General Approach to Modeling Eclipsing Binaries
- Determination of Eclpsing Binary Parameters
- Light Curve Models and Software
- The Wilson-Devinney Program and WD95
- The Structure of Light Curve Programs and the Outlook for the Future
- Appendix A: A Brief Review of Mathematical Optimization
- Appendix B: Estimation of Fitted Parameter Errors: the Details
- Appendix C: Geometry and Coordinate Systems
- Appendix E: Subroutines of the Wilson-Devinney Program
- Appendix F: Graphics Utilities and Visualization
- Appendix G: Glossary of Symbols
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
Autoren-Porträt von Josef Kallrath, Eugene F. Milone
Prof. Dr. Josef Kallrath ist in der Praxis und Lehre tätig und löst mit Wissenschaftlichem Rechnen praktische Probleme in der Industrie. Schwerpunkt seiner Tätigkeit ist die Mathematische Optimierung zur Unterstützung von Entscheidungsprozessen und die Modellierung physikalischer Systeme. Lehrtätigkeiten übte er an der Universität Heidelberg und derzeitig an der University of Florida in Gainesville/USA aus. Seit 2002 leitet er die Arbeitsgruppe 'raxis der mathematischen Optimierung' der Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Josef Kallrath , Eugene F. Milone
- 2009, 2nd ed., XXIX, 420 Seiten, Masse: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 1441906983
- ISBN-13: 9781441906984
Sprache:
Englisch
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