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Tagged with light-curve eclipsing-star-systems
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Using data from the Fine Guidance System (HST)
Has anyone been able to successfully use data from the Hubble Space Telescope's fine guidance system in order to create light curves?
I found a bunch of older papers that reference this instrument, ...
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What determines how accurate a particular method is at finding the period between Lomb-Scargle and String Length Minimization?
I've been using the Lomb-Scargle and String Length Minimization methods to find the periods of various astronomical objects with unevenly spaced data. I wanted to see if I could find any patterns ...
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Sinusoidal Light curve of an eclipsing binary [closed]
This light curve seems really weird to me, I'm used to seeing light curves where the barycenter is a straight line. It either stays at a place, moves at a constant speed or slowly increases its speed. ...
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