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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

The results of 3,989 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 2018-11-07 Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Sean E. Urban , Jordan D. Josties

We present 36 observations of 17 visual binaries of moderate separation (range from 0.15'' to 0.79'') made with the 50 cm Cassegrain telescope of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. The speckle interferometry technique was combined with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Artur Rutkowski , Waclaw Waniak

We present the results of 938 speckle measures of double stars and suspected double stars drawn mainly from the Hipparcos Catalogue, as well as 208 observations where no companion was noted. One hundred fourteen pairs have been resolved for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Elliott P. Horch , Gerard T. van Belle , James W. Davidson, , Lindsay A. Ciastko , Mark E. Everett , Karen S. Bjorkman

The results of speckle interferometric measurements of binary and multiple stars conducted in 2008 and 2009 at the Blanco and SOAR 4-m telescopes in Chile are presented. A total of 1898 measurements of 1189 resolved pairs or sub-systems and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-21 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf

Between 1997 and 2004 several observing runs were conducted mainly with the CTIO 0.9 m to image ICRF counterparts (mostly QSOs) in order to determine accurate optical positions. Contemporary to these deep CCD images the same fields were…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Norbert Zacharias , Marion I. Zacharias

We report 370 measures of 170 components of binary and multiple star systems, obtained from speckle imaging observations made with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument at Lowell Observatory's Discovery Channel Telescope in 2015…

We report on speckle observations of binary stars carried out at the WIYN Telescope over the period from September 2010 through February 2012, providing relative astrometry for 2521 observations of 883 objects, 856 of which are double stars…

We report high resolution optical speckle observations of 336 M dwarfs which result in 113 measurements of relative position of 80 systems and 256 other stars with no indications of duplicity. These are the first measurements for two of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Korie N. Miles , John P. Subasavage , Deepak Raghavan , Todd J. Henry

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Rene A. Mendez , Elliott P. Horch

The US Naval Observatory 8--inch astrograph has been equipped with a Kodak 1536x1024 pixel CCD since June 1995, operating in a 570--650 nm bandpass. With 3--minute exposures well exposed images are obtained in the magnitude range $R \approx…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Norbert Zacharias

A description is given of the activities of an international working group created with the aim of obtaining both photometric and astrometric observations of visual double and multiple stars with angular separations in the range of one to…

Speckle interferometric technique is employed to record a series of hundreds of short-exposure images of several close binary stars with sub-arcsecond separation through a narrow band filter at the Cassegrain focus of the 2.34 meter (m)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. K. Saha , V. Chinnappan , L. Yeswanth , P. Anbazhagan

We present 1066 speckle measurements of M dwarf multiples observed over 2021-2024, all taken with HRCam on the Southern Astrophysical Research 4.1 m telescope. Among these, 900 observations resolve companions in 212 pairs, with separations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Eliot Halley Vrijmoet , Andrei Tokovinin , Todd J. Henry , Jennifer G. Winters , Wei-Chun Jao , Elliott Horch

Recent CCD observations were performed in the period 1998-2004 for a large sample of visual double and multiple stars selected from the Hipparcos Catalogue and/or from the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars. Accurate astrometric and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Lampens , A. Strigachev , D. Duval

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 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

This paper presents new trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions for 214 stars. The measurements were made at the US Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS) between 1989 and 2017, and the average uncertainty in the parallax values is…

Results of speckle interferometry observations at the 4.1 m SOuthern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope obtained during 2024-2025 are presented. We present 5316 measurements of relative positions and magnitude differences in 3532 pairs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Rene A. Mendez , Edgardo Costa

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
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