AAS 204th Meeting, June 2004
Session 35 Professional-Amateur Collaboration for Enhanced Research
Topical Session, Tuesday, June 1, 2004, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 710/712

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[35.12] Pro-Am Collaborations on Eclipsing Binary Star Problems

D. Terrell (Southwest Research Institute)

I discuss the fruits of a decade of amateur-professional collaboration on eclipsing binary stars. Our team consists of a mix of visual, photoelectric and CCD observers that use the strengths of each observing approach to study newly discovered and neglected eclipsing binary systems. We have active programs on time of minimum measurements and high-precision photometry that results in detailed analysis of the binaries to find fundamental parameters such as masses and radii. We have also discovered and/or characterized several unusal binaries that have had an influence on stellar evolution theory.


The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: terrell@boulder.swri.edu

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