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use TAU;
use crateVec3;
///
/// sphere_eclipse tells you whether or not a given sphere will eclipse a
/// given point or not. If the answer is yes, it will also return with four
/// parameters to define the phase range and the multiplier range delimiting the
/// region within which the spheres surface is crossed.
/// These can then be used as the starting point for later computation.
/// (The line of sight is described as the point in question plus a scalar multiplier
/// times a unit vector pointing towards Earth -- this is the "multiplier" referred to above
/// and below). The multiplier must be positive: in other words the routine does not
/// project backwards. If the point in inside the sphere, phi1 will be set = 0, phi2 = 1,
/// lam1 = 0, and lam2 = the largest value of the multiplier lambda
///
/// \param cosi cosine of orbital inclination
/// \param sini sine of orbital inclination
/// \param r the position vector of the point in question (units of binary separation)
/// \param c the centre of the sphere enclosing the star (units of binary separation)
/// \param rsphere the radius defining the sphere enclosing the star (units of binary separation)
/// \param phi1 if eclipse by the sphere, this is the start of the phase range (0 -1)
/// \param phi2 if eclipse by the sphere, this is the end of the phase range (least amount > phi1)
/// \param lam1 if eclipse by the sphere, this is the start of the multiplier range (>=0)
/// \param lam2 if eclipse by the sphere, this is the end of the multiplier range (>lam1)
/// \return false = not eclipsed; true = eclipsed.
///
///
/// This version of sphere_eclipse tells you whether or not a given sphere will eclipse
/// a given point at a particular phase or not. If the answer is yes,
/// it will also return with the multiplier values giving the cut points. These can then
/// be used as starting points for Roche lobe computations. These can then be used as the
/// starting point for later computation. Points inside the sphere are regarded as being
/// eclipsed with the lower mulitplier set = 0
///
/// \param earth vector towards Earth
/// \param r the position vector of the point in question (units of binary separation)
/// \param c the centre of the sphere (units of binary separation)
/// \param rsphere the radius defining the sphere enclosing the star (units of binary separation)
/// \param lam1 if eclipse by the sphere, this is the start of the multiplier range
/// \param lam2 if eclipse by the sphere, this is the end of the multiplier range
/// \return false = not eclipsed; true = eclipsed.
///