Detection of low eccentricity orbits: an analysis of nine massive spectroscopic binaries.
Abstract
The elements of nine single-lined, short-period, massive spectroscopic binaries are analyzed for significant orbital eccentricity. The Fourier transform formalism for computation of orbits is used to derive an estimator of significance for the observed eccentricity. Of the nine systems investigated, five are either probably or possibly in eccentric orbits.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- February 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1086/130448
- Bibcode:
- 1979PASP...91...95M
- Keywords:
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- B Stars;
- Binary Stars;
- Eccentric Orbits;
- Stellar Spectrophotometry;
- Cosmic Noise;
- Detection;
- Eccentricity;
- Fourier Transformation;
- Mass Transfer;
- Signal Analysis;
- Astronomy;
- Orbits:Spectroscopic Binaries