Fourier analysis of the light curves of eclipsing variables, VII

Abstract

A new method has been developed for the evaluation of the light momentsA _2m, required for a Fourier analysis of the light curves of eclipsing variables, in terms of the elements of the eclipsea method simpler and more straightforward than that previously developed in so far as it dispenses with the auxiliary coefficientsa ^(l)_n andb ^(l)_n used before at the intermediary stage. Our present method is applicable to an analysis of the eclipses of spherical stars of any type, arbitrarily darkened at the limb; and its results agree with those previously established in Papers III and IV of this series in less explicit form.