Dawn Gelino's Ph.D. Dissertation (New Mexico State University, 9/11/01)

Modeling Infrared Ellipsoidal Variations: Determining the Masses of Black Holes in Soft X-Ray Transients

Postscript files:

Entire Dissertation (13 MB) Gzipped (1.5 MB)

Abstract, Table of Contents, etc. (2.2 MB)

Chapter 1: Introduction (1.2 MB)

Chapter 2: Geometry of Close Binary Systems (2.5 MB)

Chapter 3: Light Curve Modeling (2.4 MB)

Chapter 4: Observations (1.8 MB)

Chapter 5: GU Muscae (2.0 MB)

Chapter 6: V616 Monocerotis (1.2 MB)

Chapter 7: J0422+32 (1.3 MB)

Chapter 8: QZ Vulpeculae (0.9 MB)

Chapter 9: Results and Future Work (1.0 MB)

Appendix A: WD98 Subroutines (0.2 MB)

Appendix B: Sample WD98 Files (0.3 MB)

Appendix C: Stellar Optical and Infrared Colors (0.2 MB)

References (0.2 MB)


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