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Collaborating with "professional" amateurs: low-mass stars in fragile multiple system

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2012-11-14 v1

Abstract

The boundary between professional and amateur astronomers gets narrower and narrower. We present several real examples, most of them published in refereed journals, of works resulting from fruitful collaborations between key amateur astronomers in Spain and professional colleagues. The common denominator of these works is the search for binaries, mostly nearby, wide, common proper-motion pairs with low-mass stellar components, including some of the most fragile systems ever found.

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@article{arxiv.1211.2934,
  title  = {Collaborating with "professional" amateurs: low-mass stars in fragile multiple system},
  author = {J. A. Caballero and J. Genebriera and T. Tobal and F. X. Miret and F. M. Rica and J. Cairol and N. Miret and I. Novalbos and D. Montes and A. Klutsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2934},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

HSA7, in press [Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VII, Proceeding of the X Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 9-13, 2012, in Valencia, Spain. J. C. Guirado, L. M. Lara, V. Quilis, and J. Gorgas (eds.)]