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Just as with asteroids, eclipsing binary star lightcurves can be used to create models of a system, including the relative sizes of the stars, their approximate temperatures, and if one or both have starspots. This chapter gives a brief introduction into binary star modeling using the popular program Binary Maker 3.
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D. Bradstreet, Binary Maker 3 software (Contact Software, Norristown, 2016). http://www.binarymaker.com/
D. Terrell, J.D. Mukherjee, R.E. Wilson, Binary Stars: A Pictorial Atlas (Krieger, Malabar, 1992)
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Warner, B.D. (2016). Building Star Systems. In: A Practical Guide to Lightcurve Photometry and Analysis. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32750-1_16
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