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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 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

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

In 2022 we carried out an upgrade of the speckle polarimeter (SPP) -- the facility instrument of the 2.5-m telescope of the Caucasian Observatory of the SAI MSU. During the overhaul, CMOS Hamamatsu ORCA-Quest qCMOS C15550-20UP was installed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 I. A. Strakhov , B. S. Safonov , D. V. Cheryasov

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…

Statistical characterization of secondary subsystems in binaries helps to distinguish between various scenarios of multiple-star formation. The DSSI speckle instrument was used at the Gemini-N telescope for several hours in 2015 July to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Andrei Tokovinin , Elliott P. Horch

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

In the paper new orbital elements obtained from speckle interferometric measurements only for 15 Mon are reported. For this binary they were determined earlier by combining spectroscopic and speckle measurements and spectroscopic and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-07 Zorica Cvetkovc , Istvan Vince , Slobodan Ninkovic

Orbits of 55 visual binary stars are computed using recent speckle interferometry data from the SOAR telescope: 33 first-time orbits and 22 revisions of previous orbit calculations. The orbital periods range from 1.4 to 370 years, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-04 Andrei Tokovinin

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

Conventional ground-based optical telescopes, even those with large apertures, primarily observe stars, close binaries, and multiple systems as unresolved point sources through photometric measurements. Spectroscopy can identify multiple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Km Nitu Rai , Neelam Panwar , Jeewan C Pandey , T S Kumar , Subrata Sarangi , Prasenjit Saha

We present the results of a speckle interferometric survey of Galactic massive stars that complements and expands upon a similar survey made over a decade ago. The speckle observations were made with the KPNO and CTIO 4 m telescopes and…

We present the results of speckle interferometric observations of 273 magnetic stars most of which are Ap/Bp type. All observations were made at the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 D. A. Rastegaev , Yu. Yu. Balega , V. V. Dyachenko , A. F. Maksimov , E. V. Malogolovets

There should be about 10,000 stellar hierarchical systems within 100 pc with primary stars more massive than 0.5 Msun, and a similar amount of less massive hierarchies. A list of 8000 candidate multiples is derived from wide binaries found…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Andrei Tokovinin

We present the multiple stellar systems observed within the SpHere INfrared survey for Exoplanet (SHINE). SHINE searched for substellar companions to young stars using high contrast imaging. Although stars with known stellar companions…

We present the results of a high-resolution imaging survey of 12 brown dwarfs and very low mass stars in the closest (~145 pc) young (~5 Myr) OB association, Upper Scorpius. We obtained images with the Advanced Camera for Surveys/High…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. L. Kraus , R. J. White , L. A. Hillenbrand

We present a program of routine lunar occultations, at optical and near-IR wavelengths, recently started at the 1.5m Spanish telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory. Both a CCD and an infrared array detector are used. The program is aimed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Fors , A. Richichi , J. Nunez , A. Prades

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 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

Twenty multiple stellar systems with solar-type primaries were observed at high angular resolution using the PALM-3000 adaptive optics system at the 5 m Hale telescope. The goal was to complement the knowledge of hierarchical multiplicity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Lewis C. Roberts, , Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Reed L. Riddle