FIZIKA B 10 (2001)  4, 357-366

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SEPARATION TECHNIQUES FOR DISENTANGLING OF COMPOSITE SPECTRA

SAŠA ILIJIĆa, HERMAN HENSBERGEb and KREŠIMIR PAVLOVSKIc

aFaculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Kačićeva 26, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia

bRoyal Observatory of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, B-1180 Brussel, Belgium

cDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Zagreb, Bijenička cesta 32, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
E-mail address:
kresimir@phy.hr

Dedicated to Professor Kseno Ilakovac on the occasion of his 70th birthday

Received 20 June 2001; Accepted 21 January 2002
Online 6 April 2002

Disentangling of composite spectra is a promissing technique for the analysis of double-lined spectroscopic binary systems. The technique makes use of a separation routine to extract model-component spectra out of a time series of observed composite spectra. Focusing on the differences between two possible approaches in the implementation of the separation routine, we compare the resulting limitations. We perform test runs on artificial data and conclude that separation in the wavelength domain is more versatile in several aspects, while the computational efficiency of separation in the Fourier domain allows working with larger data sets which is beneficial in a fully-blown disentangling process.

PACS numbers: 97.80.Fk, 39.30.+w
UDC 531.755

Keywords: double-lined spectroscopic binary systems, composite spectra, disentangling, test runs, wavelength domain, Fourier domain

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