Fourier analysis of the light curves of eclipsing variables, XXIII

Abstract

The method of evaluating the photometric perturbationsB _2m of eclipsing variables in the frequency domain, developed by Kopal (1959, 1975e, 1978) for an interpretation of mutual eclipses in systems whose components are distorted by axial rotation and mutual tidal action. The aim of the present paper has been to establish explicit expressions for the photometric perturbationB _2m in such systems, regardless of the kind of eclipses and non-integral values ofm.

Recently, Kopal (1978) introduced two different kinds of integrals with respect to associated α-functions andI-integrals which have been expressed in terms of certain general types of series that can be easily programmed for automatic computation within seconds of real time on highspeed computers.

Following a brief introduction (Section 1) in which the need of this new approach will be expounded, in Section 3 we shall deduce the integral

$$\int_0^{\theta \prime } {\tfrac{{\alpha _n^\prime }}{\delta }} d(sin^{2m} \theta )$$

in terms of a certain general type of series and also β-function, which should enable us to evaluate explicit expressions forf ^(h)_* ,f ^(h)₁ ,f ^(h)₂ as well asB _2m .