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Photometric and Spectroscopic Binary Systems

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Maratea, Italy, June 1–14, 1980

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Ellen B. Carling

    1. Department of Astronomy, The University of Manchester, England

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  2. Zdeněk Kopal

    1. Department of Astronomy, The University of Manchester, England

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 69)

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Table of contents (28 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Light Changes of Eclipsing Variables and their Analysis

    1. The Royal Road of Eclipses

      • Zdeněk Kopal
      Pages 1-16

    2. Error Analysis of the Elements of an Eclipsing Binary System in Frequency Domain

      • I. Jurkevich, A. F. Petty, I. R. Goodman
      Pages 17-110

    3. A Simple Synthesis Method for Solving the Elements of Well-Detached Eclipsing Systems

      • Paul B. Etzel
      Pages 111-120

    4. The Uniqueness Criterion: The Analysis of Eclipsing Binary Light Curves

      • Burt Nelson
      Pages 121-123

    5. Light Curve Analysis for the Basic Spherical-Model of Eclipsing Variables in the Frequency Domain

      • Osman Demircan
      Pages 125-154

    6. A Computer Program for the Frequency-Domain Analysis of the Light Curves of Eclipsing Variables

      • Alvaro Giménez, José M. García-Pelayo
      Pages 155-160

    7. A Study of Special Functions in the Theory of Eclipsing Binary Systems

      • Filaretti Zafiropoulos
      Pages 161-180

    8. Photometric Perturbations of Close Binaries in the Frequency-Domain

      • Helen Rovithis-Livaniou
      Pages 181-197

    9. An Analysis of the Light Changes of W UMa-Type Systems in the Frequency Domain

      • P. G. Niarchos
      Pages 199-215

  3. Eclipsing Variables: Photometric Observations

    1. Data Acquisition in Astronomical Photoelectric Photometry

      • Giorgio Sedmak
      Pages 217-251

    2. Detection of Close Binary Systems By Means of Lunar Occultations

      • G. Longo, M. Rigutti
      Pages 253-284

    3. Progress and Problems in RS CVn Star Research

      • Marcello Rodonò
      Pages 285-304

    4. Observations of RS CVn-Type Binary Stars

      • P. Vivekananda Rao, M. B. K. Sarma
      Pages 305-311

    5. The System RT And and the Transit/Occultation Question

      • S. Mancuso, L. Milano, A. Vittore, E. Budding, D. M. Z. Jassur
      Pages 313-329

    6. The Short-Period Group of Eclipsing Binaries with Properties Similar to the Classical RS CVn Group

      • L. Milano
      Pages 331-360

    7. Photoelectric Study of the RS CVn-Type Binary TY Pyxidis

      • P. Vivekananda Rao, M. B. K. Sarma
      Pages 361-387

    8. BV Photometry of Selected RS CVn-Type Eclipsing Binaries

      • M. Kurutaç, C. Ibanoğlu
      Pages 389-403

    9. Observations and Analysis of UU Sge

      • E. Budding
      Pages 405-412

    10. The Light and Period Variations of OO Aquilae

      • Osman Demircan, Necdet Güdür
      Pages 413-439
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About this book

Our conference - opening today - has two aims in view: first, to commemorate some milestones in the development of the studies of close binary systems whose anniversaries fall in these years, as well as to take stock of our present knowledge accumulated through­ out preceding decades, in order to consider where do we go from here. This summer, 310 years will have elapsed since the first ec­ lipsing binary - Algol - was discovered in Bologna by Geminiano Montanari (1633-1687) to be a variable star; and 198 years have gone by since John Goodricke of York (1764-1786) established the fact that Algol's light changes were periodic. Moreover, it is al­ most exactly (to a month) now 100 years since Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919) of Harvard Observatory in the United States took the first steps towards the development of systematic methods of analysis of the light changes of Algol and related systems - a topic which will constitute the major part of the programme of our present conference. The three dates recalled above illustrate that the discoverers of such celestial objects and observers of their light changes have been systematically ahead of the theoreticians endea­ vouring to understand the significance of the observed data by de­ cades and centuries in the past - a fact which, incidentally, con­ tinues to hold good (albeit with a diminishing lead-time) up to the present.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Astronomy, The University of Manchester, England

    Ellen B. Carling, Zdeněk Kopal

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Photometric and Spectroscopic Binary Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Maratea, Italy, June 1–14, 1980

  • Editors: Ellen B. Carling, Zdeněk Kopal

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8486-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1981

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1281-3Published: 30 April 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-8488-2Published: 21 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8486-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 572

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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