Balloon at Bamberg
Time-resolved high-resolution spectroscopy
of the bright sdBV Balloon090100001

John Telting et al.,   Bamberg,   July 2007
page 13
-5 -1 +1 +5

Cross-correlation functions

  We identified 56 narrow unblended lines, and used their line wavelengths to create a template spectrum consisting of deltafunctions convolved with the instrumental broadening (5km/s Gaussian σ).

The minimal distance between lines selected for the template was kept at 1.5 Angstrom, to avoid blends in the cross-correlation function.

  For each phase bin the we computed the cross-correlation function of the stellar spectrum and the template spectrum. This effectively combines the information contained in 56 separate spectral lines into one CCF profile.

  The resulting CCF profiles have very good S/N, and were used as if they were real line profiles in the mode identification.