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Paper: |
Verification of binary curve fitting and SPOT fitting programs - Testing the inverse problem |
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9, Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun: Sixth Cambridge Workshop |
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252 |
Authors: |
Rhodes, M.; Budding, E.; Zeilik, M. |
Abstract: |
The binary star curve-fitting and spot-fitting programs used in the ongoing analysis of short-period RS CVn binary star systems are tested and verified. Using synthetic photometric light curves of typical short-period RS CVn systems, the effects of a known spot are added and random noise is also introduced to simulate various signal-to-noise ratios. The spot-fitting program could, in every case, reliably extract the longitude, latitude, and radius of the active region down to a limiting radius of 5 degrees at a signal-to-noise ratio of 100/1. The binary star orbital parameters were likewise reliably recovered. |
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