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In order to embark on the task just set forth, our first aim will be to outline a geometrical theory of eclipsing binary systems consisting of components which can be regarded as spheres. At the first sight, the problem so restricted might seem to suffer from serious limitations: for how can two stars finding themselves in the proximity of each other retain a spherical shape? This objection is true in principle; and a discussion of its limitations will be taken up in Chapter II.
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© 1979 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Kopal, Z. (1979). Light Changes of Eclipsing Binary Systems: Spherical Stars. In: Language of the Stars. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9466-9_2
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