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Active Close Binaries

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Cafer İbanoğlu

    1. Astronomy and Space Sciences Department, Ege University Science Faculty, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 319)

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Table of contents (64 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Opening Remarks: Physical Causes of the Light Variations of Active Binary Systems and their Interpretation

    1. Openingg Remarks On Physical Causes of the Light Variations of Active Binary Systems and on their Interpretation

      • Zdeněk Kopal
      Pages 1-6

  3. Interaction in Binaries and Algols

    1. Eclipsing Binaries as Astrophysical Laboratories and the Strange Case of Epsilon Aurigae

      • Edward F. Guinan, Sean M. Carroll
      Pages 7-36

    2. Accretion Disks in Non-Degenerate Binaries

      • Mirek J. Plavec
      Pages 37-48

    3. Resolving the Puzzle of the W Serpentis Stars

      • Mirek J. Plavec
      Pages 49-60

    4. Extragalactic Interacting Binaries

      • Robert H. Koch
      Pages 61-68

    5. Effective Gravity-Darkening of Close Binary Systems

      • Masatoshi Kitamura
      Pages 69-79

    6. Binary Activity at the Top of the Main Sequence: Y Cyg and U Oph

      • Robert H. Koch, Raymond J. Pfeiffer
      Pages 81-94

    7. Period Changes and Magnetic Cycles

      • Douglas S. Hall
      Pages 95-119

    8. Absolute Dimensions of Classical Algol-Type Binaries

      • Alvaro Gimenez, J. Mario Garcia
      Pages 121-135

    9. Recent Results of Apsidal Motion Studies in Eclipsing Binaries

      • A. Gimènez
      Pages 137-143

    10. On the Orbital Circularization of Close Binaries

      • Tsevi Mazeh, David W. Latham, Robert D. Mathieu, Bruce W. Carney
      Pages 145-154

    11. Stellar Structure and Evolution with Respect to Binarity

      • H. Mauder
      Pages 155-160

    12. An Optimization Method for solutions of Close Eclipsing Binaries

      • F. Barone, L. Milano, G. Russo
      Pages 161-188

    13. Spectrophotometry of Algol-Type Binaries

      • Paul B. Etzel
      Pages 189-201

    14. Complications in the Balmer-Line Spectrum of TT Hydrae

      • Paul B. Etzel
      Pages 203-211

    15. An Optimization Technique for the Fourier Analysis of the Light Curves of Totally Eclipsing Systems of Algol-Type

      • P. G. Niarchos, G. Pantazis
      Pages 213-218

    16. The Algol-Type Binary U Coronae Borealis, a Triple?

      • J. R. W. Heintze
      Pages 219-235

    17. Interacting Binary CX Draconis

      • P. Koubský, J. Horn, P. Harmanec, G. J. Peters, R. S. Polidan
      Pages 237-238

    18. Disk-Driven Precession in Active Close Binaries and in Active Galactic Nuclei

      • J. F. Lu
      Pages 239-240
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About this book

Since the 1970s symposia or colloquia devoted to recent research on close binaries have been held around the world almost annually. At meetings of the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union this topic has also been discussed in detail at presentations in various commission meetings and also as invited talks by leading astronomers in the field. In recent years, fundamental changes have taken place in the study of close binaries due to the improvements in observational techniques, extension of observations from X-ray to radio regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and advances in theoretical studies. For more than a decade, a group of astronomers at Ege University Observatory has been concentrating on active close binaries with particular emphasis on the behaviour of the light curves of chromospherically active systems. Thus, we decided to organize an international meeting in Western Anatolia, where this part of Turkey had been the cradle for great developments in science during antiquity. KUljadasi, located only minutes away from Ephesus, one of the seven wonders of the world, was selected to be the meeting site. Close binary systems constitute a very rich source of information about the physical properties of the component stars. Some systems are eclipsing variables, where periodic recurrences of eclipses are observed as comparatively brief decreases in the total brightness of the binary system. Precise methods of photometric observations make it possible to obtain the light variations of these systems because of eclipses and other phenomena.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Astronomy and Space Sciences Department, Ege University Science Faculty, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

    Cafer İbanoğlu

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Active Close Binaries

  • Editors: Cafer İbanoğlu

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0679-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0907-9Due: 30 September 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6790-4Published: 20 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-0679-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 920

  • Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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