radial

This program calculates the radial velocities of both stars in a binary system

Version : 1.0
Author(s) : J Hegarty (hegarty@nhn.ou.edu)
License : Free
Website : http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~hegarty/radial

Installs from Open Source Astronomy for Linux cd 1
Disk space required for installation is 107.04 Kb

After the package is installed it can be accessed using the command


		/opt/astro/bin/startradial

     

Summary

This program calculates the radial velocities of both stars in a binary system, allowing for user configuration of stellar masses, semimajor axis, inclination of orbital plane, orbital eccentricity, time to collect data, and calculation frequency.

For your convenience, default values have been added to the program, so you can run it with nothing other than variable eccentricity, if you like.