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| Preface to first edition | |
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| Preface to second edition | |
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| Overview | |
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| Scope of the subject | |
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| Requirements | |
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| Participants | |
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| Targets | |
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| Bibliographical notes | |
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| References | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Optical photometry | |
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| Historical notes | |
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| Some basic terminology | |
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| Radiation: waves and photons | |
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| Bibliographical notes | |
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| References | |
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| Underlying essentials | |
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| Radiation field concepts | |
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| Black body radiation | |
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| The Sun seen as a star | |
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| The bolometric correction | |
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| Stellar fluxes and temperatures | |
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| Broadband filters: essential points | |
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| Surface flux and colour correlations | |
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| Absolute parameters of stars | |
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| Bibliographical notes | |
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| References | |
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| Themes of astronomical photometry | |
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| Extinction | |
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| Broadband filters: data and requirements | |
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| Photometry at intermediate bandwidths | |
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| Narrowband photometry | |
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| Fast photometry | |
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| Photometry of extended objects | |
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| Photopolarimetry | |
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| Bibliographical notes | |
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| References | |
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| Practicalities | |
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| Overview of basic instrumentation | |
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| Detectors | |
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| Conventional measurement methods | |
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| Bibliographical notes | |
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| References | |
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| Procedures | |
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| The standard stars experiment | |
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| Differential photometry | |
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| Application of CCD cameras | |
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| Light curves of variable stars | |
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| Bibliographical notes | |
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| References | |
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| Basic light curve analysis | |
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| Light curve analysis: general outline | |
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| Eclipsing binaries: basic facts | |
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| Hand solution of light curves | |
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| Computer-based analysis | |
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| Bibliographical notes | |
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| References | |
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| Period changes in variable stars | |
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| Variable stars and periodic effects | |
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| Complexities in O-C diagrams | |
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| Period changes: observational aspects | |
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| Period changes: theoretical aspects | |
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| Statistical data on Algol binaries | |
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| Bibliographical notes | |
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| References | |
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| Close binary systems | |
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| Coordinate transformation | |
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| Orbital eccentricity | |
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| Proximity effects | |
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| The 16-parameter curve fitter | |
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| Frequency domain analysis | |
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| Narrowband photometry of binaries | |
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| Bibliographical notes | |
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| References | |
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| Spotted stars | |
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| Introductory background | |
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| The photometric effects of starspots | |
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| Application to observations | |
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| Starspots in binary systems | |
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| Analysis of light curves of RS CVn-like stars | |
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| Bibliographical notes | |
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| References | |
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| Pulsating stars | |
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| Introductory background | |
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| The Baade-Wesselink procedure | |
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| Six-colour data on classical cepheids | |
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| Pulsational radii | |
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| Bibliographical notes | |
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| References | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Author index | |
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| Subject index | |