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Our survey of long-baseline infrared and optical interferometry measurements is producing considerable numbers of directly determined stellar angular sizes. We use our sample of 124 high-precision (5\%) angular stellar diameter values and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Kaspar von Braun , Tabetha S. Boyajian , Gerard T. van Belle

Determining the physical properties of microlensing events depends on having accurate angular sizes of the source star. Using long-baseline optical interferometry we are able to measure the angular sizes of nearby stars with uncertainties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Arthur D. Adams , Tabetha S. Boyajian , Kaspar von Braun

Reliable prediction of stellar diameters, particularly angular diameters, is a useful and necessary tool for the increasing number of milliarcsecond resolution studies being carried out in the astronomical community. A new and accurate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. T. van Belle

We present new angular diameter measurements for 33 stars from the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer, reaching uncertainties on the limb-darkened diameter of 2% or less for 21 targets. We also determined the physical radius, bolometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Ellyn K. Baines , James H. Clark , Henrique R. Schmitt , Jordan M. Stone , Kaspar von Braun

We measured the angular diameters of 44 stars with the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer, obtaining uncertainties on the limb darkened diameter of 2% or less for all but four stars. We then used our diameters with Gaia or Hipparcos…

Using the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer, we measured the angular diameters of 10 stars that have previously measured solar-like oscillations. Our sample covered a range of evolutionary stages but focused on evolved subgiant and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ellyn K. Baines , J. Thomas Armstrong , Henrique R. Schmitt , James A. Benson , R. T. Zavala , Gerard T. van Belle

Based on CHARA Array measurements, we present the angular diameters of 23 nearby, main- sequence stars, ranging from spectral type A7 to K0, five of which are exoplanet host stars. We derive linear radii, effective temperatures, and…

Context: The prediction of stellar angular diameters from broadband photometry plays an important role for different applications. In particular, long-baseline interferometry, gravitational microlensing, extrasolar planet transits, and many…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre Kervella , Pascal Fouqué

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

Within the last 10 years, long-baseline optical interferometry (LBOI) has benefited significantly from increased sensitivity, spatial resolution, and spectral resolution, e.g., measuring the diameters and asymmetries of single stars,…

The calibration process of long baseline stellar interferometers requires the use of reference stars with accurately determined angular diameters. We present a catalog of 374 carefully chosen stars among the all-sky network of infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Pascal Borde , Vincent Coude du Foresto , Gilles Chagnon , Guy Perrin

We have executed a survey of nearby, main sequence A, F, and G-type stars with the CHARA Array, successfully measuring the angular diameters of fortyfour stars with an average precision of ~ 1.5%. We present new measures of the bolometric…

The apparent size of stars is a crucial benchmark for fundamental stellar properties such as effective temperatures, radii and surface gravities. While interferometric measurements of stellar angular diameters are the most direct method to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-23 L. Casagrande , L. Portinari , I. S. Glass , D. Laney , V. Silva Aguirre , J. Datson , J. Andersen , B. Nordström , J. Holmberg , C. Flynn , M. Asplund

The diameter of a star is a major observable that serves to test the validity of stellar structure theories. It is also a difficult observable that is mostly obtained with indirect methods since the stars are so remote. Today only ~600…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Alain Chelli , Gilles Duvert , Laurent Bourgès , Guillaume Mella , Sylvain Lafrasse , Daniel Bonneau , Olivier Chesneau

We compile a sample of Sun-like stars with accurate effective temperatures, metallicities and colours (from the UV to the near-IR). A crucial improvement is that the effective temperature scale of the stars has recently been established as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Johan Holmberg , Chris Flynn , Laura Portinari

The availability of a number of new interferometric measurements of Main Sequence and subgiant stars makes it possible to calibrate the surface brightness relations of these stars using exclusively direct angular diameter measurements.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Kervella , F. Thevenin , E. Di Folco , D. Segransan

In the current era of Gaia and large, high signal to noise stellar spectroscopic surveys, there is an unmet need for a reliable library of fundamentally calibrated stellar effective temperatures based on accurate stellar diameters. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-07 Adam D. Rains , Michael J. Ireland , Timothy R. White , Luca Casagrande , I. Karovicova

I show that the standard microlensing technique to measure the angular radius of a star using color/surface-brightness relations can be inverted, via late-time proper motion measurements, to calibrate these relations. The method is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrew Gould

Surface brightness-colour relations (SBCRs) are used to derive the stellar angular diameters from photometric observations. They have various astrophysical applications, such as the distance determination of eclipsing binaries or the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-07 A. Salsi , N. Nardetto , D. Mourard , O. Creevey , D. Huber , T. R. White , V. Hocdé , F. Morand , I. Tallon-Bosc , C. D. Farrington , A. Chelli , G. Duvert

I present a discussion of fundamental stellar parameters and their observational determination in the context of interferometric measurements with current and future optical/infrared interferometric facilities. Stellar parameters and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Wittkowski
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