Getting started

During this tutorial, we shall try and find the preliminary solution of the UV Leonis binary system. UV Leonis is a detached close binary with coordinates $\alpha_{\mathrm{2000}} = 10^h 38^m 20.7699^s$ and $\delta_{\mathrm{2000}} = +14^o 16' 03.670''$. Data files for this system are acompanying every PHOEBE release and reside in data/UVLeo directory. There are two photometric light curves³ in B and V filters (both from Bessel 1990 series): UVLeo.B and UVLeo.V and two radial velocity curves⁴: UVLeo.rv1 and UVLeo.rv2 - one for each star.