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Published April 21, 2006 | Submitted + Published
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Automated analysis of eclipsing binary light curves - I. EBAS - a new Eclipsing Binary Automated Solver with EBOP

Abstract

We present a new algorithm, Eclipsing Binary Automated Solver (EBAS), to analyse light curves of eclipsing binaries. The algorithm is designed to analyse large numbers of light curves, and is therefore based on the relatively fast EBOP code. To facilitate the search for the best solution, EBAS uses two parameter transformations. Instead of the radii of the two stellar components, EBAS uses the sum of radii and their ratio, while the inclination is transformed into the impact parameter. To replace human visual assessment, we introduce a new 'alarm' goodness-of-fit statistic that takes into account correlation between neighbouring residuals. We perform extensive tests and simulations that show that our algorithm converges well, finds a good set of parameters and provides reasonable error estimation.

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© 2006 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2006 RAS. In original form 2005 May 13. Received 2005 November 30. Accepted 2006 January 9. First published online April 21, 2006. We are grateful to the OGLE team, and to L. Wyrzykowski in particular, for the excellent photometric data set and the eclipsing binary analysis that was made available to us. We thank J. Devor, G. Torres and I. Ribas for very useful comments. The remarks and suggestions of the referee, T. Zwitter, helped us to substantially improve the algorithm and this paper. This work was supported by the Israeli Science Foundation through grant no. 03/233.

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