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In the special case i = 90° the observed orbital motion degenerates into an oscillation along the line of nodes. Though i and Ω are known, five elements remain to be determined from the separations, without the powerful tools of the position angle variation and the areal constant. The methods developed for this case resemble those for spectroscopic binaries as only one quantity as a function of time is available.
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© 1978 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Heintz, W.D. (1978). The Edge-on Orbit. In: Double Stars. Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9836-0_18
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