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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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I will discuss one of the results of a continuing program to determine accurate masses and radii of stars in eclipsing binaries. This program actually began in 1976 with my work on the faint M-dwarf system CM Dra (Lacy 1977). By faint I mean . I needed high-dispersion spectra to get radial velocities, and an intensified solid state array detector called the Digicon, which had recently been installed on the coude spectrometer of the 2.7m reflector at McDonald Observatory, turned out to be the answer. 30 minute integrations were sufficient to get accurate radial velocities from the Hγ emission lines. The Digicon is very good at getting crumby spectra of faint objects fast. By crumby, I mean signal-to-noise ratio of less than 100.
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 62: Current Techniques in Double and Multiple Star Research , May 1983 , pp. 108 - 113
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- Copyright © Lowell Observatory 1983