Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aas...182.4509a&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 182nd AAS Meeting, #45.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, p.872
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We describe a new technique for deriving Doppler images of stars. It uses sequential linear least squares estimation to reconstruct the image by inverting a set of high-resolution spectral line profiles. An attractive feature of this method is that the entire dataset need not be inverted simultaneously. This allows the inclusion of arbitrarily large observation vectors such as are obtained with echelle spectrographs. In contrast to the maximum entropy method, least squares also provides formal error estimates which indicate how much confidence should be attributed to various features in the resulting starspot maps. We also discuss an improved geometrical model based upon the binary star work of A.P. Linnell. This model incorporates the effects of the Roche distortion of these spotted stars caused by their close binary companions. Well-studied spotted stars such as UX Ari are significantly tidally distorted (almost to the point of Roche-lobe overflow). Most previous studies have omitted the effects of non-spherical shape, variation of surface gravity, associated gravity darkening and mutual irradiation. This work has been partially supported by NSF Grant AST-9115376.
Allen Steven L.
Vogt Stefan
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