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Several nearby solar-type dwarfs with variable radial velocity were monitored to find their spectroscopic orbits. Orbital elements of HIP 179, 1989, 2981, 5276, 6439, 11218, 21443, 96434 are determined, as well as tentative orbits for HIP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 N. A. Gorynya , A. Tokovinin

The orbits of 8 systems with low-mass components (HIP 14524, HIP 16025, HIP 28671, HIP 46199, HIP 47791, HIP 60444, HIP 61100 and HIP 73085) are presented. Speckle interferometric data were obtained at the 6 m Big Alt-azimuth Special…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-29 A. Mitrofanova , V. Dyachenko , A. Beskakotov , Yu. Balega , A. Maksimov , D. Rastegaev , S. Komarinsky

The adaptive optics system at the 3.6 m AEOS telescope was used to measure the astrometry and differential magnitude in I-band of 56 binary stars in 2002. The astrometric measurements will be of use for future orbital determination, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Lewis C. Roberts,

We present high resolution Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics imaging of 43 late-M, L and T dwarf systems with Keck/NIRC2. These include 17 spectral binary candidates, systems whose spectra suggest the presence of a T dwarf secondary. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi , Christopher R. Gelino , Adam J. Burgasser

delta Velorum is a nearby (24pc) triple stellar system, containing a close, eclipsing binary (Aa, Ab) discovered in 2000. Multiple systems provide an opportunity to determine the set of fundamental parameters (mass, luminosity, size and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Kellerer , M. G. Petr-Gotzens , P. Kervella , V. Coude du Foresto

We present the discovery and spectroscopic follow-up of a nearby late-type L dwarf (2M0614+3950), and two extremely wide very-low-mass binary systems (2M0525-7425AB and 2M1348-1344AB), resulting from our search for common proper motion…

A search for duplicity of lambda Bootis stars has been made by using the speckle camera installed at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. The operation mode and the reduction procedure allow one to obtain not only the separation, but also the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. Marchetti , R. Faraggiana , P. Bonifacio

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Andrei Tokovinin

We present the first orbital elements for the massive close binary, HD 101131, one of the brightest objects in the young, open cluster, IC 2944. This system is a double-lined spectroscopic binary in an elliptical orbit with a period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. R. Gies , L. R. Penny , P. Mayer , H. Drechsel , R. Lorenz

We present the results of a multiplicity survey for a magnitude-limited sample of 31 classical Be stars conducted with the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer and the Mark III Stellar Interferometer. The interferometric observations were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 D. J. Hutter , C. Tycner , R. T. Zavala , J. A. Benson , C. A. Hummel , H. Zirm

Binary stars can inflate the observed velocity dispersion of stars in dark matter dominated systems such as ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs). However, the population of binaries in UFDs is poorly constrained by observations, with preferred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Joshua D. Simon , Abraham Loeb

The results of speckle interferometric observations at the SOAR telescope in 2014 are given. A total of 1641 observations were taken, yielding 1636 measurements of 1218 resolved binary and multiple stars and 577 non-resolutions of 441…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Rene A. Mendez , Elliott P. Horch

The results of speckle interferometric observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) in 2019 are given, totaling 2555 measurements of 1972 resolved pairs with separations from 15 mas (median 0.21") and magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Rene A. Mendez , Edgardo Costa , Elliott P. Horch

The results of speckle interferometric observations at the 4.1 m SOAR telescope in 2016 and 2017 are given, totaling 2483 measurements of 1570 resolved pairs and 609 non-resolutions. We describe briefly recent changes in the instrument and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Rene A. Mendez , Elliott P. Horch

We present the first results from an ongoing survey for multiplicity among the bright stars using the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI). We first present a summary of NPOI observations of known multiple systems, including the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Donald Hutter , Robert Zavala , Christopher Tycner , James Benson , Christian Hummel , Jason Sanborn , Otto G. Franz , Kenneth Johnston

The results of 4,747 intensified CCD observations of double stars, made with the 26-inch refractor of the U.S. Naval Observatory, are presented. Each observation of a system represents a combination of over two thousand short-exposure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf

We present new orbital solutions for 15 binaries, which were astrometrically measured during 2010-2013. We observe the binary systems using the FastCam ``lucky-imaging'' camera, installed at the 1.5-m Carlos S\'anchez Telescope (CST) at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 F. M. Rica , R. Barrena , J. A. Henríquez , G. Vázquez , C. Vázquez , D. Hernández , J. L. del Rosario

We report on the determination of the visual orbit of the double-lined spectroscopic binary system 12 Bootes with data obtained by the Palomar Testbed Interferometer in 1998 and 1999. 12 Boo is a nearly equal-mass double-lined binary system…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. F. Boden , M. J. Creech-Eakman , D. Queloz

We report the results of speckle runs at the 4.1-m Southern Astronomical Research (SOAR) telescope in 2012 and 2013. A total of 586 objects were observed. We give 699 measurements of 487 resolved binaries and upper detection limits for 112…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf

(abridged) We present the discovery of two T dwarf binaries, 2MASS 1225-2739AB and 2MASS 1534-2952AB, identified in a sample of ten T dwarfs imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The separations of the two…