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TheWilson–Devinney Program: Extensions and Applications

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Because the Wilson–Devinney program is the most widely used of all the light curve modeling tools, it is appropriate to describe its features, capabilities, and continuing development in some detail. The WD program itself has seen continual improvements, and the current version (briefly summarized in Chap. 6) with its powerful features provides the opportunity to extract a maximum of information from a variety of observational data. As a side-effect, publications on the WD model and on the WD program1 have stimulated the development of new programs, which in their kernel use the WD program. Several such programs with new innovative features or added functionality now coexist with the WD program. Some of these features were developed independently in several programs, including WD.

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Kallrath, J., Milone, E.F. (2009). TheWilson–Devinney Program: Extensions and Applications. In: Eclipsing Binary Stars: Modeling and Analysis. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0699-1_7

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