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We present a comprehensive and sensitive unbiased survey of interstellar features in the near-UV range (3050-3700 {\AA}). We combined a large number of VLT/UVES archival observations of a sample of highly reddened early type stars --…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Neil Hemant Bhatt , Jan Cami

We present measurements in the context of a survey of southern hemisphere binary and multiple stellar systems observed with the Zorro Speckle dual diffraction-limited optical imaging camera on the 8.1m Gemini-South telescope carried out…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Rene A. Mendez , Andrei Tokovinin , Edgardor Costa , Max Dirk

We present the first results of a multi-year program to map the orbits of M dwarf multiples within 25 parsecs. The observations were conducted primarily during 2019 - 2020 using speckle interferometry at the Southern Astrophysical Research…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Eliot Halley Vrijmoet , Andrei Tokovinin , Todd J. Henry , Jennifer G. Winters , Elliott Horch , Wei-Chun Jao

We present the results of our search for variable stars using the long-term Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) monitoring of white dwarf ZTF J0139+5245 with the two 1.0-m telescope nodes located at McDonald Observatory using the Sinistro imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Aniket Sanghi , Zachary P. Vanderbosch , Michael H. Montgomery

Using the 1.56m telescope at the Shanghai Observatory (ShAO), China, we monitored two sources, BL Lac object S5 0716+714 and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) 3C 273. For S5 0716+714, we report 4969 sets of CCD (Charge-coupled Device)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 Yu-Hai Yuan , Jun-hui Fan , Jun Tao , Bo-Chen Qian , Denise Costantin , Hu-Bing Xiao , Zhi-Yuan Pei , Chao Lin

The Narrabri intensity interferometer was successfully used until 1974 to observe 32 stars, all brighter than B=+2.5, among which some were found to have an angular diameter as small as 0.41+/-0.03 milli-arc-seconds (mas). The technique was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. LeBohec , J. Holder

WDS 03286+2523 BRT 133, is a double-star system that has been under observation since 1896. In this study, we present new measurements of the position angle and separation of the system, utilizing data obtained from a web telescope with a…

We report the design, fabrication and installation of a 'Twin Telescope' at Kodaikanal Observatory intended to augment the ongoing synoptic observations of the Sun that has been carried out since 1904. The telescope uses a 15 cm objective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-28 Jagdev Singh , B. Ravindra

We present preliminary results of observations made, during the spring of 1996, with the 3-m liquid mirror telescope of the NASA Orbital Debris Observatory. A 20-arcmin-wide strip of sky was observed at latitude of 32deg56 N using 10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Remi A. Cabanac

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

We present integrated optical spectrophotometry for a sample of 417 nearby galaxies. Our observations consist of spatially integrated, S/N=10-100 spectroscopy between 3600 and 6900 Angstroms at ~8 Angstroms FWHM resolution. In addition, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 John Moustakas , Robert C. Kennicutt

We have measured the angular diameters of six M dwarfs with the CHARA Array, a long-baseline optical interferometer located at Mount Wilson Observatory. Spectral types range from M1.0 V to M3.0 V and linear radii from 0.38 to 0.69 Rsun.…

Two days of observations were conducted at the Palomar Observatory during the nights of 25 and 26 February 1997 with the Hale telescope, in order to search for rapid variability in the near-infrared (NIR) bands J, H, Ks for a selection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Chapuis , S. Corbel , P. Durouchoux , W. Mahoney , T. N. Gautier

The detection of rapid variability on a time-scale of hours in radio-quiet quasars (RQQSOs) could be a powerful discriminator between starburst, accretion disc and relativistic jet models of these sources. This paper contains an account of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Rabbette , B. McBreen , N. Smith , S. Steel

We present the results of the extragalactic surveys performed at 15 and 175 microns using the ISOCAM and ISOPHOT instruments on-board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). The number counts at both wavelengths present a strong evolution.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Elbaz

The results of speckle interferometric observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) in 2020, as well as earlier unpublished data, are given, totaling 1735 measurements of 1288 resolved pairs and non-resolutions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Rene A. Mendez , Edgardo Costa , Andrew W. Mann , Todd J. Henry

We present the results of a massive variability search based on a photometric survey of a six square degree region along the Galactic plane at ($l = 305^\circ$, $b = -0.8^\circ$) and ($l = 330^\circ$, $b = -2.5^\circ$). This survey was…

We use data from the U.S. Naval Observatory fourth CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC4) in combination with photometry from the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS) and Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) to identify stars within 25 pc of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Charlie Finch , Norbert Zacharias , John Subasavage , Todd Henry , Adric Riedel

The one-meter telescope-reflector `Saturn' (D=1 m, F = 4 m) was partially renovated at the Pulkovo observatory at the end of 2014. The telescope was equipped by CCD camera S2C with 14x14 arcmin field of view and 824 mas per pix scale. The…

We examine 20 diffuse and translucent Galactic sight lines and extract the column densities of the ^12CO and ^13CO isotopologues from their ultraviolet A--X absorption bands detected in archival Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Sheffer , M. Rogers , S. R. Federman , D. L. Lambert , R. Gredel