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We present new or updated angular diameters, physical radii, and effective temperatures for 145 stars from the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer data archive. We used data from 1996 to late-2021, and we describe the differences between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Ellyn K. Baines , James H. Clark , Bradley I. Kingsley , Henrique R. Schmitt , Jordan M. Stone

We report the results of a diffraction-limited, photometric variability study of the central 5"x5" of the Galaxy conducted over the past 10 years using speckle imaging techniques on the W. M. Keck I 10 m telescope. Within our limiting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Rafelski , A. M. Ghez , S. D. Hornstein , J. R. Lu , M. Morris

Results of the speckle-interferometry observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) obtained during 2023 are presented: 1913 measurements of 1533 resolved pairs or subsystems (median separation 0.16") and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Rene A. Mendez , Edgardo Costa

Quasi-continuous observations of PSR B03239+54 over 20 days using the Nanshan 25-m telescope at 1540 MHz have been used to study the effects of refractive scintillation on the pulsar flux density and diffractive scintillation properties.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Wang , Z. Yan , R. N. Manchester , H. X. Wang

New, updated, and/or revised CCD parallaxes determined with the Strand Astrometric Reflector at the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS) are presented. Included are results for 309 late-type dwarf and subdwarf stars observed over the…

We describe a search for close spectroscopic dwarf M star binaries using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to address the question of the rate of occurrence of multiplicity in M dwarfs. We use a template fitting technique to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Benjamin M. Clark , Cullen H. Blake , Gillian R. Knapp

We have used the Palomar Testbed Interferometer to perform very high precision differential astrometry on the 0.25 arcsecond separation binary star HD 171779. In 70 minutes of observation we achieve a measurement uncertainty of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. F. Lane , M. W. Muterspaugh

We announce the public release of 141,531 moderate-dispersion optical spectra of 72,247 objects acquired over the past 25 years with the FAST Spectrograph on the Fred L. Whipple Observatory 1.5-meter Tillinghast telescope. We describe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Jessica Mink , Warren R. Brown , Igor V. Chilingarian , Daniel Fabricant , Michael J. Kurtz , Sean Moran , Jaehyon Rhee , Susan Tokarz , William F. Wyatt

The VERITAS Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) array was augmented in 2019 with high-speed focal plane electronics to allow its use for Stellar Intensity Interferometry (SII) observations. Since January 2019, the VERITAS Stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-24 David Kieda , Jonathan Davis , Tugdual LeBohec , Mike Lisa , Nolan K. Matthews

From 1979--1996 the Green Bank Interferometer was used by the Naval Research Laboratory to monitor the flux density from 146 compact radio sources at frequencies near 2 and 8 GHz. We filter the ``light curves'' to separate intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Rickett , T. J. W. Lazio , F. D. Ghigo

We have searched for discrete refractive scattering events (including effects due to possible non-multiple diffractive scattering) at meter wavelengths in the direction of two close by pulsars B0950+08 and B1929+10, where we looked for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Ramachandran , A. A. Deshpande , B. W. Stappers

We present relative positions of visual binaries observed during 2009 with the FastCam "lucky-imaging" camera at the 1.5-m Carlos Sanchez Telescope (TCS) at the Observatorio del Teide. We obtained 424 CCD observations (averaged in 198 mean…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 F. M. Rica , R. Barrena , G. Vazquez , J. A. Henriquez , F. Hernandez

We consider a method for obtaining information on polarization of astronomical objects radiation at diffraction limited resolution - differential speckle polarimetry. As an observable we propose to use averaged cross spectrum of two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Boris Safonov

We observed the young open cluster NGC 2301 for 14 nights in Feb. 2004 using the orthogonal transfer CCD camera (OPTIC). We used PSF shaping techniques ("square stars") during the observations allowing a larger dynamic range (4.5…

We present 3.6 and 4.5 um photometry for a set of 61 standard stars observed by Spitzer's Infrared Spectrograph (IRS). The photometry was obtained with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on Spitzer in order to help tie the calibration of IRAC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-29 Kathleen E. Kraemer , Charles W. Engelke , Bailey A. Renger , G. C. Sloan

In anticipation of the possible collision between a circumstellar disk and the secondary star in the highly eccentric binary system Delta Scorpii, high angular resolution interferometric observations have been acquired aimed at revising the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Tycner , A. Ames , R. T. Zavala , C. A. Hummel , J. A. Benson , D. J. Hutter

We present near-infrared parallax and proper motion astrometry for 74 L-dwarfs and 99 T-dwarfs, as single objects or in binary systems, obtained with the ASTROCAM astrometric imager on the USNO, Flagstaff Station 1.55-m telescope over two…

The average pixel distance as well as the relative orientation of an array of 6 CCD detectors have been measured with accuracies of about 0.5 nm and 50 $\mu$rad, respectively. Such a precision satisfies the needs of modern crystal…

This paper details speckle observations of binary stars taken at the Lowell Discovery Telescope, the WIYN Telescope, and the Gemini telescopes between 2016 January and 2019 September. The observations taken at Gemini and Lowell were done…

The astronomical results contained in this publication represent a continuation of previous work of the United States Naval Observatory Six-inch and Seven-inch transit circles. The results are also the last from United States Naval…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 T. J. Rafferty , E. R. Holdenried , S. E. Urban