"Androcles" <dummy@dummy.com> wrote in message news:zhXKd.14662$B5.2469@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
<sawlake-gg@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hubble could not see it, but the 8.2 meter in Chile using adaptive
optics got the image and the orbit of AB Doradus C -- finding
important
because at 93 Jupiter masses it makes the "star" cut and retools the
mass luminosity curve for this class of objects:
http://glikglik.blogspot.com/2005/01/fat-star.html
Cute!
One little question, though.
How do you find the orbit, and what are the parameters?
Y'know, trivial stuff, like eccentricity, major axis, inclination, *****
like that?
You should know - you invented the technique: they run your
stupid program and fiddle with the parameters until they can
reproduce something that resembles the luminosity curve.
Dirk Vdm
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