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Fourier techniques for an analysis of eclipsing binary light curves: II

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Some properties of the quantitiesB 2m (Smith, 1977) inherent in the frequency-domain approach have been deduced, and a general expression for them in terms of the eclipse elementsr 1,2,i andL 1 of the basic model has been presented (Section 2).

An expansion for the loss of light (1−l) into a Fourier sine series alone have been introduced, and its coefficientsb m presented (Section 3) in terms of the same eclipse elements. A method of increasing the rate of convergence of this series has been given in Section 4. The methods for obtaining the elements of eclipsing binaries by making use of all these quantities in the frequency-domain can likewise be generalized to cover the photometric effects of gravitational and radiative interaction between the components.

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Demircan, O. Fourier techniques for an analysis of eclipsing binary light curves: II. Astrophys Space Sci 61, 507–515 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00640546

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