Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-07-31
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
to be published IAU Coll.170 Precise Stellar Radial Velocities, eds. J.B.Hearnshaw and C.D.Scarfe; uses paspconf.sty; 8 pages,
Scientific paper
Cross-correlation function (CCF) has become the standard tool for extraction of radial-velocity and broadening information from high resolution spectra. It permits integration of information which is common to many spectral lines into one function which is easy to calculate, visualize and interpret. However, CCF is not the best tool for many applications where it should be replaced by the proper broadening function (BF). Typical applications requiring use of the BF's rather than CCF's involve finding locations of star spots, studies of projected shapes of highly distorted stars such as contact binaries (as no assumptions can be made about BF symmetry or even continuity) and [Fe/H] metallicity determinations (good baselines and avoidance of negative lobes are essential). It is stressed that the CCF's are not broadening functions. The note concentrates on the advantages of determining the BF's through the process of linear inversion, preferably accomplished using the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). Some basic examples of numerical operations are given in the IDL programming language.
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