Pipeline for Making Images of Gas Flows in Binary Stars
Abstract
The data collection and data analysis pipeline for the study and imaging of interacting binaries is outlined. This process includes the systematic collection of time-resolved spectra of individual systems, data reduction including subtraction of the stellar spectra, application of tomography codes to reveal images of the gas flows in 2D and 3D, comparison of the observed spectrum with synthetic spectra of the accretion disk and gas stream, and application of 3D visualization techniques.
- Publication:
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From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools
- Pub Date:
- April 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921311027323
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUS..282..195R
- Keywords:
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- (stars:) binaries: eclipsing;
- circumstellar matter;
- image processing;
- stellar dynamics