This program calculates the radial velocities of both stars in a binary system
Version : 1.0
Author(s) : J Hegarty (hegarty@nhn.ou.edu)
License : Free
Website : http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~hegarty/radial
Installs from Open Source Astronomy for Mac OS X cd 3
Disk space required for installation is 296.00 Kb
After the package is installed it can be accessed using the command
/Applications/astro/bin/startradial
This program calculates the radial velocities of both stars in a binary system, allowing for user configuration of stellar masses, semimajor axis, inclination of orbital plane, orbital eccentricity, time to collect data, and calculation frequency.
For your convenience, default values have been added to the program, so you can run it with nothing other than variable eccentricity, if you like.