Date of Award
Fall 12-15-2011
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Department
Physics and Engineering Science
College
College of Science
First Advisor
Louis Rubbo
Abstract/Description
Our Solar System is one of roughly 100 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy. Two-thirds of all stars are paired off, forming a gravitational bond between one another. Such systems are known as stellar binaries. Although these binaries are prevalent there is much yet to be learned about their formation, evolution, and interactions. The approach taken in this thesis is to produce simulated data representing the expected measurements that an observational astronomer would collect. Specifically, we have simulated the data from an eclipsing binary light curve, spectroscopic velocity curve, and the gravitational wave times series form a generic binary. A future project would then be able to develop an advance statistical analysis routine that combines all three synthetic data sets in an effort to extract physical parameters of the original binary.
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Recommended Citation
Kern, Kevin, "Multimessenger Astronomy: Modeling Gravitational and Electromagnetic Radiation from a Stellar Binary System" (2011). Honors Theses. 103.
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/honors-theses/103