Lecture x: Binaries
Further reading
Sources for images used:
- Binary star title image: from "How To Find A Binary System's Habitable Zone" http://www.iflscience.com/space/how-find-binary-stars-habitable-zone
- Binary orbits as ellipses: after Fig. 10.2 from "The Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy" by Frank Shu (University Science Books, 1982)
- Orbit of Castor: from "Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier" by John Fix, Fig. 21.1 http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/astronomy/fix/student/chapter21/21f01.html
- Image of Castor: from "Double Stars" by Jack Schmidling, http://schmidling.netfirms.com/doubst.htm
- Orbit of Sirius: from "Stars, Galaxies and Cosmology" http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/binaries/astrometric.html
- Spectroscopic binary animation: from "Astronomy 162 Digital Movie Gallery" by Richard Pogge, http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Movies/. Used with permission.
- Spectrogram of Mizar: from Astronomy 1Y: Stellar Astrophysics http://radio.astro.gla.ac.uk/stellarlect/mizar.jpg
- Radial velocity of Mizar A; from "A New View of Mizar" by Leos Ondra, http://leo.astronomy.cz/mizar/article.htm
- Orbit of IM Mon, from Bakis et al. 2010 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010NewA...15....1B
- Spectroscopic binary: from Astronomy 122: Birth and Death of Stars by Jim Schombert http://zebu.oregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec06.html
- Spectroscopic binary orbits: from Duquennoy & Mayor, "Multiplicity among solar-type stars in the solar neighbourhood. II - Distribution of the orbital elements in an unbiased sample", A&A 248, 485 (1991), available at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991A%26A...248..485D
- Kepler 5-star system: from http://phys.org/news/2015-07-star-doubly-eclipsing.html
- Kepler eclipsing binary distribution: from Kirk et al. 2016,
"Eclipsing Binary Stars. VII. The Catalog of Eclipsing Binaries
Found in the Entire Kepler Data Set", http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AJ....151...68K
- Figure 8 orbit: from Charlie McDowell, http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~charlie/3body/
- Alpha Centauri image: from Willie's Modified Vesta Webcam Page, http://www.saao.ac.za/~wpk/vesta/
- Capella image: taken by the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope, from http://eastbay.astro.org/articles/lore/auriga.htm
- Orbit of Beta Cen A/B: from paper by Davis et al., MNRAS 356, 1362 (2005), copy at http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/hadar.html
- Castor: from Jodrell Bank Constellations, http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/public/AList/Gemini.html
- Light curve of AE Phe: from Maceroni et al. 1994, "Surface imaging of late-type contact binaries I: AE Phoenicis and YY Eridani", A&A 288, 529; Doppler image from Barnes et al. 2004, "High-resolution Doppler images of the spotted contact binary AE Phe", MNRAS 348, 1321
- Algol light curve: from Stebbins 1920, "The measurement of the light of stars with a selenium photometer, with an application to the variations of Algol", ApJ 32, 185
- Orbital element distributions: from Halbwachs et al., "Multiplicity among solar-type stars. III. Statistical properties of the F7-K binaries with periods up to 10 years", A&A 397 159 (2003), available at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003A%26A...397..159H
- Artist's impression of the Algol system: from The Electronic Sky, http://www.glyphweb.com/esky/default.htm?http://www.glyphweb.com/esky/stars/algol.html
- WR 104: from "The Twisted Tale of Wolf-Rayet 104" by Peter Tuthill, http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~gekko/wr104.html
- Cataclysmic variable: from "Explorations: An Introduction to Astronomy" by Thomas Arny, Fig. 14.3 http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/astronomy/arny/instructor/graphics/ch14/1403.html
- Formation of accretion disk: from Flannery 1975, "The location of the hot spot in cataclysmic variable stars as determined from particle trajectories", MNRAS 170, 325
- Nova Herculis and nova light curve: from Astronomy 122: Birth and Death of Stars by Jim Schombert, http://zebu.oregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec17.html
Last updated 7 December 2016
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