TY - GEN
T1 - Spectroscopic binary mass determination using relativity
AU - Zucker, Shay
AU - Alexander, Tal
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - High-precision radial-velocity techniques, which enabled the detection of extrasolar planets, are now sensitive to relativistic effects in the data of spectroscopic binary stars (SBs). These effects can be used to derive the absolute masses of the components of eclipsing single-lined SBs and double-lined SBs from Doppler measurements alone. High-precision stellar spectroscopy can thus substantially increase the number of measured stellar masses, thereby improving the mass-radius and mass-magnitude calibrations.
AB - High-precision radial-velocity techniques, which enabled the detection of extrasolar planets, are now sensitive to relativistic effects in the data of spectroscopic binary stars (SBs). These effects can be used to derive the absolute masses of the components of eclipsing single-lined SBs and double-lined SBs from Doppler measurements alone. High-precision stellar spectroscopy can thus substantially increase the number of measured stellar masses, thereby improving the mass-radius and mass-magnitude calibrations.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=36448942966&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-75485-5_33
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-75485-5_33
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AN - SCOPUS:36448942966
SN - 9783540754848
T3 - ESO Astrophysics Symposia
SP - 149
EP - 152
BT - Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics
A2 - Santos, Nuno C.
A2 - Pasquini, Luca
A2 - Romaniello, Martino
A2 - Correia, Alexandre C. M.
ER -