Automated Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) Photometry of Interacting Binary Stars

霍尼卡特提议为现有的40厘米望远镜配备低噪声电荷耦合装置(Ccd)，用于自动测光微弱相互作用的双星，范围从阿尔戈尔到激变变星，再到银河系x射线源。相互运动的恒星对经常交换气体流，有时甚至是猛烈的。通常，他们这样做只是在其中一颗恒星演化的一个短暂阶段，而这一阶段只能通过观察这样的双星来进行研究。观测这类恒星需要望远镜和工作人员花费大量时间。霍尼卡特将建造电子探测器，通过自动初始数据缩减，实现双星的自动观测。即使是一个小望远镜也能探测到非常暗的恒星，因此比以前的摄影项目能探测到更多有趣的恒星。

Honeycutt proposes to equip an existing 40-cm telescope with a low-noise charge-coupled-device (CCD) for automated photometry of faint interacting binary stars, ranging from Algols to cataclysmic variables and to galactic x-ray sources. Pairs of stars moving about each other often exchange streams of gases, sometimes violently. Often they do so during merely a brief stage in the evolution of one of the stars that can be investigated only by watching such binary stars. Observations of such stars require much time of both telescopes and staff. Honeycutt will construct electronic detectors that will allow automatized observing of binary stars with automatic initial reduction of the data. Even a small telescope can reach very faint stars and thus many more interesting stars than could be reached by previous photographic projects.