Unsung Binaries and de Sitter's Whimsical Images?

Shade Tree Physics

Latest Update 04 Jul 2007.
New or modified material is in bold.

This page presents a collection of stellar images that might be showing binaries where they wern't suspected to be such, and evidence of Ritzian c+v arrival time modulation for binary stars (also not thought to be such). (The time modulation sometimes allows a component of a binary star to be seen on opposite sides of the component's orbit at the same time. In each example the seeing of the detecting instrument is thought to be sufficient to resolve the separated images.

Mira Ceti

See: Mira Ceti et al, Common Envelope Binaries

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Supernova Remnant 1987a

Science @NASA 26 March 1999

Credit: C. Burrows
(ESA/STScI), HST,NASA
The origin of the rings remains a mystery.
Astronomy Picture of the Day July 5, 1996

SN 1987a Blink Comparator

The mysterious rings are thought to be the edges of semi-spherical expanding shock waves.

See SN 1987a as a Possible Ritzian System.

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SS443
SS443
ASCA GIS (X-Ray)
Reported as having two sets of moving X-ray lines.

Sequential false-color radio images of SS-433, made with the Very Large Array, in January, February, March, and April of 1981. (VLA/NRAO). According to the Ritzian hypothesis the features that have been identified as jets would be interpreted as de Sitter images (of a binary component) that are periodically seen simultaneously on opposite sides of the binary center-of-gravity.

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Planetary Nebula Mz3 - "Ant Nebula"
Hubble Space Telescope
"Actually, current thinking points towards the possiblity of a closely
companion star. This star's gravitational influence would alter the flow
and direction of ejected gas." - utahskies.org weekly 21 Sep 2001
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Super Nova 2006gy

Chandra X-Ray / Lick IR
Credit: Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss: X-ray: NASA/CXC/
UC Berkeley/N. Smith et al.; IR: Lick/UC Berkeley/J. Bloom & C. Hansen
See SN 2006gy as a Possible Ritzian System.

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Comments/questions to: Bob Fritzius at Shade Tree Physics.

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