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Separated Fringe Packet Observations with the CHARA Array II: $\omega$ Andromeda, HD 178911, and {\xi} Cephei

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2015-06-22 v1

Abstract

When observed with optical long-baseline interferometers (OLBI), components of a binary star which are sufficiently separated produce their own interferometric fringe packets; these are referred to as Separated Fringe Packet (SFP) binaries. These SFP binaries can overlap in angular separation with the regime of systems resolvable by speckle interferometry at single, large-aperture telescopes and can provide additional measurements for preliminary orbits lacking good phase coverage, help constrain elements of already established orbits, and locate new binaries in the undersampled regime between the bounds of spectroscopic surveys and speckle interferometry. In this process, a visibility calibration star is not needed, and the separated fringe packets can provide an accurate vector separation. In this paper, we apply the SFP approach to {\omega} Andromeda, HD 178911, and {\xi} Cephei with the CLIMB three-beam combiner at the CHARA Array. For these systems we determine component masses and parallax of 0.963±{\pm}0.049 MM_{\odot} and 0.860±{\pm}0.051 MM_{\odot} and 39.54±{\pm}1.85 milliarcseconds (mas) for {\omega} Andromeda, for HD 178911 of 0.802±{\pm}0.055 MM_{\odot} and 0.622±{\pm}0.053 MM_{\odot} with 28.26±{\pm}1.70 mas, and masses of 1.045±{\pm}0.031 MM_{\odot} and 0.408±{\pm}0.066 MM_{\odot} and 38.10±{\pm}2.81 mas for {\xi} Cephei.

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@article{arxiv.1407.0639,
  title  = {Separated Fringe Packet Observations with the CHARA Array II: $\omega$ Andromeda, HD 178911, and {\xi} Cephei},
  author = {Christopher D. Farrington and Theo A. ten Brummelaar and Brian D. Mason and William I. Hartkopf and Denis Mourard and Ehsan Moravveji and Harold A. McAlister and Nils H. Turner and Laszlo Sturmann and Judit Sturmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.0639},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

28 pages, 4 tables, 6 figures, accepted to AJ May 2014