The use of eclipses in the evaluation of absolute stellar information

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Apr 2005

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Transits of Venus: New Views of the Solar System and Galaxy, Proceedings of IAU Colloquium #196, held 7-11 June, 2004 in Preston

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Eclipsing binary light curves have provided the `royal road' (Russell 1948) to fundamental astrophysical information on stars. If radial velocities of the components and a reliable colour/temperature/flux relation are available, parallaxes may be determined and compared with direct measures, e.g. by Hipparcos. Accuracies of existing measures are considered and aspects of the development of this and other methods of distance determination reviewed. Roles for multiwavelength techniques (e.g. VLBA, broad-spectrum photometry) are noted. The recovery of information on new planets orbiting remote stars by transit phenomena will be looked into within this context.

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