•Two types of binary stars
–Visual binaries: See separate stars
•a large, P long
•Can’t directly measure component
of a along line of sight
–Spectroscopic binaries: See Doppler shifts in spectra
•a small, P short
•Can’t directly measure component
of a in plane of sky
•If star is visual and spectroscopic binary get get full set of information and then get
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