Author: Andrej Prsa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750312882
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The fascinating and observationally spectacular world of binary stars is a vast and beautiful one that is a significant aspect of many astrophysical studies. Modeling and Analysis of Eclipsing Binary Stars gives a comprehensive analysis and description of the science behind eclipsing binaries. It also explores the assumptions and the difficulties that can occur when using the modeling principles of the classical codes as well as introducing PHOEBE (the PHysics Of Eclipsing BinariEs)-a modern suite for modeling binary stars. PHOEBE was conceived by Andrej Prša and his collaborators, and has become one of the standard tools in the eclipsing binary field.This book provides a constructive and intriguing contribution to the expansion of the modeling approaches of binaries and our subsequent understanding of the processes that govern stellar evolution. Aimed at a wide audience, Prša provides new astronomers with the knowledge and background of eclipsing binary stars as well as facilitating researchers to a better understanding of the intricate details behind eclipsing binary models.
Eclipsing Binary Stars
Author: Andrej Prsa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750312882
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The fascinating and observationally spectacular world of binary stars is a vast and beautiful one that is a significant aspect of many astrophysical studies. Modeling and Analysis of Eclipsing Binary Stars gives a comprehensive analysis and description of the science behind eclipsing binaries. It also explores the assumptions and the difficulties that can occur when using the modeling principles of the classical codes as well as introducing PHOEBE (the PHysics Of Eclipsing BinariEs)-a modern suite for modeling binary stars. PHOEBE was conceived by Andrej Prša and his collaborators, and has become one of the standard tools in the eclipsing binary field.This book provides a constructive and intriguing contribution to the expansion of the modeling approaches of binaries and our subsequent understanding of the processes that govern stellar evolution. Aimed at a wide audience, Prša provides new astronomers with the knowledge and background of eclipsing binary stars as well as facilitating researchers to a better understanding of the intricate details behind eclipsing binary models.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750312882
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The fascinating and observationally spectacular world of binary stars is a vast and beautiful one that is a significant aspect of many astrophysical studies. Modeling and Analysis of Eclipsing Binary Stars gives a comprehensive analysis and description of the science behind eclipsing binaries. It also explores the assumptions and the difficulties that can occur when using the modeling principles of the classical codes as well as introducing PHOEBE (the PHysics Of Eclipsing BinariEs)-a modern suite for modeling binary stars. PHOEBE was conceived by Andrej Prša and his collaborators, and has become one of the standard tools in the eclipsing binary field.This book provides a constructive and intriguing contribution to the expansion of the modeling approaches of binaries and our subsequent understanding of the processes that govern stellar evolution. Aimed at a wide audience, Prša provides new astronomers with the knowledge and background of eclipsing binary stars as well as facilitating researchers to a better understanding of the intricate details behind eclipsing binary models.
Eclipsing Binary Stars
Author: Josef Kallrath
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475731280
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Focussing on the formulation of mathematical models for the light curves of eclipsing binary stars, and on the algorithms for generating such models, this book provides 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 - 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 optimisation, co-ordinate systems, and specific models. While emphasising the physical and mathematical framework, the discussion remains close to the problems of actual implementation. The book concludes with chapters on specific models and approaches and the authors'views on the structure of future light-curve programs.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475731280
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Focussing on the formulation of mathematical models for the light curves of eclipsing binary stars, and on the algorithms for generating such models, this book provides 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 - 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 optimisation, co-ordinate systems, and specific models. While emphasising the physical and mathematical framework, the discussion remains close to the problems of actual implementation. The book concludes with chapters on specific models and approaches and the authors'views on the structure of future light-curve programs.
An Introduction to Close Binary Stars
Author: R. W. Hilditch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521798006
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. They are of fundamental importance because they allow stellar masses, radii and luminosities to be measured directly, and explain a host of diverse and energetic phenomena including X-ray binaries, cataclysmic variables, novae, symbiotic stars, and some types of supernovae. This 2001 book was the first to provide a pedagogical and comprehensive introduction to binary stars. It combines theory and observations at all wavelengths to develop a unified understanding of binaries of all categories. It comprehensively reviews methods for calculating orbits, the Roche model, ideas about mass exchange and loss, methods for analysing light curves, the masses and dimensions of different binary systems, and imaging the surfaces of stars and accretion structures. This book provides a thorough introduction to the subject for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Researchers will also find this to be an authoritative reference.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521798006
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. They are of fundamental importance because they allow stellar masses, radii and luminosities to be measured directly, and explain a host of diverse and energetic phenomena including X-ray binaries, cataclysmic variables, novae, symbiotic stars, and some types of supernovae. This 2001 book was the first to provide a pedagogical and comprehensive introduction to binary stars. It combines theory and observations at all wavelengths to develop a unified understanding of binaries of all categories. It comprehensively reviews methods for calculating orbits, the Roche model, ideas about mass exchange and loss, methods for analysing light curves, the masses and dimensions of different binary systems, and imaging the surfaces of stars and accretion structures. This book provides a thorough introduction to the subject for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Researchers will also find this to be an authoritative reference.
A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy
Author: Pierre-Yves Bely
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131661526X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Contains 250 questions and answers about astronomy, particular for the amateur astronomer.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131661526X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Contains 250 questions and answers about astronomy, particular for the amateur astronomer.
The Stars
Author: Hans Augusto Rey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395248300
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Written with the primary purpose of enabling everyone to gain more pleasure from stargazing.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395248300
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Written with the primary purpose of enabling everyone to gain more pleasure from stargazing.
Photometric and Spectroscopic Binary Systems
Author: E.B. Carling
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400984863
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400984863
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
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.
Burnham's celestial handbook
NightWatch
Author: Terence Dickinson
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 1552093026
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A practical guide to viewing the universe.
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 1552093026
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A practical guide to viewing the universe.
Stars and Stellar Processes
Author: M. W. Guidry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107197880
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Presents the physics of stars in relation to modern topics such as neutrino oscillations, supernovae, black holes, and gravitational waves.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107197880
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Presents the physics of stars in relation to modern topics such as neutrino oscillations, supernovae, black holes, and gravitational waves.
Spectral Atlas for Amateur Astronomers
Author: Richard Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107165903
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
A full colour reference featuring detailed commented spectral profiles of more than one hundred astronomical objects.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107165903
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
A full colour reference featuring detailed commented spectral profiles of more than one hundred astronomical objects.