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Title Zdeněk Kopal's binary star legacy / edited by : Horst Drechsel [and] Miloslav Zejda
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 488 pages) : illustrations
Series Astrophysics and space science ; 296
Contents Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Committees -- List of Participants -- Part I: Introduction: Reminiscences and Appreciation of a Great Astronomer -- Digging Foundations for the Royal Road -- One Fellow's View of the Royal Road -- Reminiscences of a Japanese Contemporary -- RR CrB and Algol ... The First and Last Star in Zden ek Kopal's Life with Binaries -- Atmospheric Eclipses in WR+O Binaries: From Kopal and Shapley to Present Days -- Part II: Binary Star Morphology and Dynamical Aspects -- Resolving the Algol Paradox and Kopal's Classification of Close Binaries with Evolutionary Implications -- Global Solution of Dynamical Systems ... A Report to Z. Kopal, on What Followed Since -- Period Changes of Close Binary Systems -- The Eclipsing Binary BX Andromedae and its Orbital Period Behaviour -- The Unique Binary Star a Coronae Borealis -- The Eccentric Eclipsing Binary V889 Aquilae -- Triple and Multiple Systems -- Estimation of Light Time Effects for Close Binaries in Triple Systems -- Eclipsing Binaries Showing Light ... Time Effect -- Astrometric Solution of the Multiple System XY Leo -- V475 Sct (Nova Scuti 2003) ... Binary or Triple System-- Photometric Observations and Apsidal Motion Study of V1143 Cyg -- Intrinsic Variables as Components of Close Binaries -- Preliminary Analysis of V and Hp Light Curves of 26 Carbon Miras -- Non-Radial Pulsations in Components of Symbiotic Stars -- Be Stars in Binaries -- Orbital Parameters of the Binary Companion in o and Using Spectrum Disentangling -- Spectrum Disentangling and Orbital Solution for Dra -- An Outburst Detected in the Spectrum of HD 6226 -- Bimodal Structure of Gas Streams in Interacting Binaries -- Energy Transfer in W UMa Systems -- In Between Lyrae and Algol: The Case of V356 Sgr -- Part III: Mathematical Physics and Numerical Modeling -- III. 1: Solution of Eclipse Light Curves -- EB Light Curve Models ... What's Next-- Basic Functions of the Light Curve Analysis of Eclipsing Variables in the Frequency Domain -- Photometric Mass Ratios of Eclipsing Binary Stars -- The OGLE-TR-56 Star ... Planet System -- Light Curve Analysis of Early-Type Close LMC Binaries -- New Techniques and Limitations of Light Curve Analysis -- A New Package of Computer Codes for Analyzing Light Curves of Eclipsing Pre-Cataclysmic Binaries -- Light Curve Analysis of Early-Type Overcontact Systems -- A Photometric Study of the Activity of SW Lac -- CCD Photometry and Modeling of the Overcontact Binary Systems NN Vir and YY CrB -- Radial Velocity and Light Curve Analysis of the Eclipsing Binary NN Vir -- On The Overcontact Binary V2388 Oph and an Improved M ... R Relation for LTCBs -- AQ Psc ... Analysis of New Light Curves -- CCD Photometry of the Neglected Contact Binaries V344 Lac and V1191 Cyg -- CCD Photometry of Neglected Eclipsing Binaries ... KZ Dra, LR Cam and IM Vul -- An Observational Study of Contact Binaries with Large Temperature Differences Between Components -- Photometric Solution of the Eclipsing Binary V351 Pegasi -- V2213 Cyg is a New W UMa- Type System -- Light Curve Analysis of Two New W UMa Stars in M15 -- First Ground-Based Photometry and Light Curve Analysis of the Recently Discovered Contact Binary HX UMa -- UBV (RI)C Photometry of the Contact W UMa Binary BD + 145016 -- UV Leo: The Binary with the Two Suns -- Influence of Interste
Summary An international conference entitled "Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy" was held on the occasion of the late Professor Kopal's 90th birthday in his home town of Litomyšl/Czech Republic and dedicated to the memory of one of the leading astronomers of the 20th century. Professor Kopal, who devoted 60 years of his scientific life to the exploration of close binary systems, initiated a breakthrough in this field with his description of binary components as non-spherical stars deformed by gravity, with surfaces following Roche equipotentials. Such knowledge triggered the development of new branches of astrophysics dealing with the structure and evolution of close binaries and the interaction effects displayed by exciting objects such as cataclysmic variables, symbiotic stars or X-ray binaries. Contributions to this conference included praise of the achievements of a great astronomer and personal reminiscences brought forward by Kopal's former students and colleagues, and reflected the state of the art of the dynamically evolving field of binary research, which owes so much to the pioneering work of Zdenek Kopal
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Subject Kopal, Zdeněk, 1914-1993.
SUBJECT Kopal, Zdeněk, 1914-1993 fast
Subject Double stars -- Congresses
Astronomy.
Astronomy
astronomy.
SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
Physique.
Astronomie.
Double stars
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Festschriften
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Festschriften.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Drechsel, H. (Horst)
Zejda, Miloslav.
LC no. 2007440964
ISBN 9781402038754
1402038755
1402031319
9781402031311
1280234334
9781280234330
6610234337
9786610234332
Other Titles Binary star legacy
Astrophysics and space science, v. 296
Astrophysics and space science, v. 296
Astrophysics and space science, v. 296
Astrophysics and space science, v. 296