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Infinity – A New Program for Modeling Binary Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2012

Cséki Attila  and
Olivera Latković
Cséki Attila
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade Volgina 7, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia email: attila@aob.rs
Olivera Latković
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade Volgina 7, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia email: attila@aob.rs
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Abstract

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Infinity is a new program for modeling binary systems. The model is based on Roche geometry with asynchronous rotation, including an assortment of effects like gravity and limb darkening, mutual irradiation, bright and dark spots and so on. However, Infinity brings innovations in the modeling of accretion disks, and introduces the modeling of radial and non-radial oscillations on one or both components of the system.

At this stage of development, Infinity can produce light curves, spectra and radial velocity curves; solving the inverse problem is still a work in progress. In terms of programming, Infinity is being developed in the object-oriented language C#, and great care is taken to produce readable, easily extensible and verifiable code. Infinity is fully optimized to take advantage of modern multi-core CPUs, and the code is thoroughly covered with unit-tests. We expect to make a public release during 2012.

Keywords

stars: binaries: generalstars: oscillations (including pulsations)accretion disks
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S282: From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools , July 2011 , pp. 305 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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