The results of speckle interferometric observations at the SOAR telescope in 2015 are given, totalling 1303 measurements of 924 resolved binary and multiple stars and non-resolutions of 260 targets. The separations range from 12 mas to 3.37" (median 0.17"); the maximum measured magnitude difference is 6.7 mag. We resolved 27 pairs for the first time, including 10 as inner or outer subsystems in previously known binaries, e.g. the 50-mas pair in Epsilon Cha. Newly resolved pairs are commented upon. We discuss three apparently non-hierarchical systems discovered in this series, arguing that their unusual configuration results from projection. The resolved quadruple system HIP 71510 is studied as well.
@article{arxiv.1603.07596,
title = {Speckle interferometry at SOAR in 2015},
author = {Andrei Tokovinin and Brian D. Mason and William I. Hartkopf and Rene A. Mendez and Elliott P. Horch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07596},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
10 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ. The online tables are not included, available from Tokovinin on request. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1506.05718