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Ten years of speckle interferometry at SOAR

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2018-02-21 v1

Abstract

Since 2007, close binary and multiple stars are observed by speckle interferometry at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope. The HRCam instrument, observing strategy and planning, data processing and calibration methods, developed and improved during ten years, are presented here in a concise way. Thousands of binary stars were measured with diffraction-limited resolution (29mas at 540nm wavelength) and a high accuracy reaching 1mas; two hundred new pairs or subsystems were discovered. To date, HRCam has performed over 11000 observations with a high efficiency (up to 300 stars per night). An overview of the main results delivered by this instrument is given.

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@article{arxiv.1801.04772,
  title  = {Ten years of speckle interferometry at SOAR},
  author = {Andrei Tokovinin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.04772},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Accepted by PASP. 12 pages, 11 figures

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