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Fourier analysis of the light curves of eclipsing variables

XXVI: Comparison with Kitamura's method

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The aim of the present paper has been to construct analytic expressions for incomplete Fourier transforms underlying Kitamura's method for an analysis of the light curves of eclipsing binary systems (Kitamura, 1965).

The expansions established for Kitamura's coefficientsc n ands n have been used as a basis for checking numerical accuracy of these coefficients tabulated by Kitamura in 1967; and the outcome bespeaks a high quality of his tables constructed by numerical quadratures.

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  1. Atsuma Yamasaki

    Present address: Department of Earth Science and Astronomy, College of General Education, University of Tokyo, Japan

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  1. Department of Astronomy, University of Manchester, England

    Zdeněk Kopal & Atsuma Yamasaki

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Kopal, Z., Yamasaki, A. Fourier analysis of the light curves of eclipsing variables. Astrophys Space Sci 72, 3–14 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00642160

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