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Challenges to Observations of Low Mass Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2012

Stella Kafka
Stella Kafka*
Affiliation:
NASA Astrobiology Institute and Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Low mass stars in binaries are frequently used as unique tools to determine and establish fundamental stellar parameters. The need for their study and understanding has led to developing new instruments, new observational techniques and improved theoretical models. The relatively recent discovery of exoplanets and their study as the low-mass constituents around other stars is now opening new horizons in binary research. Here, I examine the most common observational challenges in studying low mass binaries across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Keywords

(stars:) binaries: generalstars: low-massbrown dwarfsmethods: data analysis
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S282: From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools , July 2011 , pp. 99 - 104
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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