More Variable Star Programs

Software

• Binary Maker 2.0
  • Contact Software, 725 Stanbridge Street, Norristown, PA 19401-5505, (610)279-1940. Price: $59.95 plus $5.00 for shipping. For IBM PC-compatible, VGA. See February 1994 issue of Sky & Telescope.

• About Phases
  • Fanel Donea's DOS program that computes heliocentric phases.

• Download WD Light Curve
  • Patched version Dirk Terrell's Windows Program that uses Wilson's model. (1199K)
  • Terrell's original Window's program that uses Wilson's model can be found at astro.ufl.edu .

• FTP 138.234.4.10
  • Dr. Claud H Sandberg Lacy (clacy@uafsysb.uark.edu) at the University of Arkansas has put together a nice binary star program that comes with student and user manuals. He has also written a program that show students how to find variable stars in a star field and another that finds the period of a binary star from observational data. The last two programs mentioned above are available via ftp and there are some labs in /pub/astrolabs/. These are Macintosh programs. He has student and user manuals for all of his programs.

• Go To Sky & Telescope's Software Page
  • BASIC code for modeling binary stars: BINARY.BAS, GOSS.BAS, PULSAR.BAS, PERIOD.BAS

• About GASPANI
  • Author: Dr. Adraino Gaspani (gaspani@astmib.astro.it)
  • Performs spectrum analysis as well as period searching of the time series coming from the photometry of the variable stars.

• About Information Limit Optimisation Technique
  • Light curve fitting program
  • Author: Michael Rhodes who adapted them from fortran code written by Ed Budding

• About GENSYS
  • GENeral SYNthesis of Light Curves and Line Profiles
  • Author: Stefan W. Mochnacki (stefan@centaur.astro.utoronto.ca)

• About LIGHT2
  • Author: Graham Hill (hill@dao.nrc.ca)

• About WINK
  • Eclipsing Binary Curve Prediction
  • Author: D. B. Wood

• About WUMA4
  • Author: Slavek Rucinski, September 1991

• FTP ftp.comp.vuw.ac.nz
  • Variable Stars Computer Analysis Programs FTP Site contains many of the programs above. Mirrored at SEDS.