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Anomalous Binary Systems in HIP Catalog
HarbingerDawnDate: Tuesday, 12.06.2012, 18:30 | Message # 1
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I have noticed that a lot of catalog stars that are single star systems in reality have binary companions in SpaceEngine. For example:
61 UMa - should not be binary
ε Ind - does have companions (binary brown dwarfs) but at large distance; no stellar companion
τ Cet - should not be binary
HIP 101997 - should not be binary

There are also stars that are binary but have erroneous orbital parameters, such as:
ι Peg - should have period of 10 days, not 20+ years
Algol C - should have period of 680 days, not 419 years (ID as Algol B in SE)

There are probably others, but you get the idea.

I can understand why it would be difficult to get every known binary/multiple star system exactly right. But is there any plan to remove false binaries (my first list) from the catalog and make them single?

I would be happy to work on it myself if I knew how.



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Edited by HarbingerDawn - Tuesday, 12.06.2012, 18:32
 
SpaceEngineerDate: Tuesday, 12.06.2012, 20:29 | Message # 2
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Open 'universe.cfg' and change the 'StarProcBifurcation' parameter to false. This will disable the generating of procedural binary/multiple systems for stars from catalog. SE needs a real binary/multiple stars catalog, but making it is much hard work. However someone could make a few dozen most common binary/multiple systems, as I have made for Alpha Centauri, Sirius, Castor, and binary suns of some exoplanets.

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HarbingerDawnDate: Tuesday, 12.06.2012, 21:28 | Message # 3
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Open universe.cfg and change the StarProcBifurcation parameter to false.

Okay thanks, I'll do that.

And if there are any obvious systems that should be binary but aren't then I'll make a catalog and release it.



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apenpaapDate: Tuesday, 12.06.2012, 21:40 | Message # 4
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Well, there's Mizar... Aside from not being in orbit around Alcor in SE, I'm quite sure that when I pointed my telescope at it a few days ago, I saw another companion closer to Mizar. wink In fact, from what I've read both Mizar, Alcor, and this companion of Mizar are actually spectroscopic binaries themselves.



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