Physical Analysis and Numerical Modeling of
Eclipsing Binary Stars
"Eclipsing binary stars are among most attractive objects in stellar astrophysics. Their particular geometrical layout and well known governing laws of dynamics and radiative physics enable a detailed and accurate modeling and analysis of the acquired observational data. Accuracy is crucial, because the results obtained from the model are used by the community to obtain reliable calibrations, tests on evolutionary sequences and distance estimates. The talk will discuss basic modeling principles along with several important physical, numerical and technical advancements. These include obtaining individual temperatures objectively by means of color-constraining, imposing sets of conditional constraints to the model, rigorous treatment of interstellar extinction, using spectra as a native data source, powerful heuristical minimization algorithms, a flexible scripting facility, an intuitive graphical user interface. We will demonstrate these features on several astrophysically challenging binaries." Additional information