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Spectroscopic orbits are determined for inner subsystems in nine stellar hierachies (HIP 2863, 4974, 8353, 28796, 35261, 92929, 115272, 115552, and 117596). Their periods range from 2.5 to 312 days. For each system, estimates of masses,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Andrei Tokovinin

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 present the discovery of four new long-period planets within the HARPS high-precision sample: \object{HD137388}b ($M\sin{i}$ = 0.22 $M_J$), \object{HD204941}b ($M\sin{i}$ = 0.27 $M_J$), \object{HD7199}b ($M\sin{i}$ = 0.29 $M_J$),…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 X. Dumusque , C. Lovis , D. Ségransan , M. Mayor , S. Udry , W. Benz , F. Bouchy , G. Lo Curto , C. Mordasini , F. Pepe , D. Queloz , N. C. Santos , D. Naef

We report results of speckle-interferometric monitoring of visual hierarchical systems using the newly commissioned instrument NESSI at the 3.5-m WIYN telescope. During one year, 390 measurements of 129 resolved subsystems were made, while…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Andrei Tokovinin , Mark E. Everett , Elliott P. Horch , Guillermo Torres , David W. Latham

High-resolution spectroscopy and speckle interferometry reveal the young star HD 86588 as a quadruple system with a 3-tier hierarchy. The 0.3" resolved binary A,B with an estimated period around 300 years contains the 8-year pair Aa,Abc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Andrei Tokovinin , Hank Corbett , Octavi Fors , Ward Howard , Nicholas M. Law , Maxwell Moe , Frederick M. Walter

This paper attracts attention to the class of resolved triple stars with moderate ratios of inner and outer periods (possibly in a mean motion resonance) and nearly circular, mutually aligned orbits. Moreover, stars in the inner pair are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Andrei Tokovinin

We confirmed four spectroscopic binary candidates using new observations obtained with SALT. Three SB2 systems (HD 20784, HD 43519A, HD 62153A) exhibit circular orbits with periods shorter than 10 days, whereas one hierarchical triple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Mikhail Kovalev , Alexey Kniazev , Oleg Malkov

HIP 45734 is a quadruple system of 2+2 architecture located at 68 pc from the Sun. The outer 9" system A,B has a period of ~10^4 yr. The pair Aa,Ab is a visual binary with a period of 20.1 years and an eccentricity of 0.78. Its periastron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Andrei Tokovinin

We report spectroscopic observations of HD 27638B, the secondary in a visual binary in which the physically associated primary (separation approximately 19 arcsec) is a B9V star. The secondary shows strong Li 6708 absorption suggesting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Guillermo Torres

We present photodynamical models of four eclipsing binary systems that are members of higher-order multiple systems. We provide some radial velocities measurements and use recent TESS data for three of the systems. KIC 7668648 consists of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Jerome A. Orosz

The star HD144548 (=HIP~78977; TYP~6212-1273-1) has been known as a detached eclipsing binary and a bona-fide member of the Upper Scorpius OB association. Continuous photometry from the K2 mission on Campaign Two has revealed the presence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-25 R. Alonso , H. J. Deeg , S. Hoyer , N. Lodieu , E. Palle , R. Sanchis-Ojeda

KIC 7177553 is a quadruple system containing two binaries of orbital periods 16.5 and 18 d. All components have comparable masses and are slowly rotating, non-evolved stars of spectral type near G2V. The longer period binary is eclipsing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 James MacDonald , D. J. Mullan

We report the detection of four new extrasolar planets in orbit around the moderately active stars HD 63765, HD 104067, HIP 70849, and HD 125595 with the HARPS Echelle spectrograph mounted on the ESO 3.6-m telescope at La Silla. The first…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Ségransan , M. Mayor , S. Udry , C. Lovis , W. Benz , F. Bouchy , G. Lo Curto , C. Mordasini , C. Moutou , D. Naef , F. Pepe , D. Queloz , N. Santos

We present an analysis of nine bright spectroscopic binaries (HD 1585, HD 6613, HD 12390, HD 39923, HD 55201, HD 147430, HD 195543, HD 202699, HD 221643), which have orbital periods of P > 500 days. These well-separated binaries are the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Dennis Jack , Missael Alejandro Hernández Huerta , Faiber Danilo Rosas-Portilla , Klaus-Peter Schröder

Joint analysis of radial velocities and position measurements of five hierarchical stellar systems is undertaken to determine elements of their inner and outer orbits and, whenever possible, their mutual inclinations. The inner and outer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Andrei Tokovinin , David Latham

Only a handful of quadruple systems with two accurate inner visual orbits are known. Architecture of two such systems is studied here to determine period ratios, mutual orbit orientation, and other parameters; updated orbital elements and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-07 A. Tokovinin

Previous studies on the rotation of Sun-like stars revealed that the rotational rates of young stars converge towards a well-defined evolution that follows a power-law decay. It seems, however, that some binary stars do not obey this…

Analyses of multi-epoch, high-resolution (~ 50000) optical spectra of seven early-type systems provided various important new insights with respect to their multiplicity. First determinations of orbital periods were made for HD 92206C…

Triple star systems are critical for understanding stellar dynamics and compact objects in astrophysics, yet confirmed hierarchical triples identified via spectroscopy remain limited. In this study, we identified 23 triple systems by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Tongyu He , Jiao Li , Jiangdan Li , Jianping Xiong , Xiaobin Zhang , Mikhail Kovalev , Qiyuan Cheng , Sufen Guo , Mingkuan Yang , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

During the study of a large set of late-type stellar X-ray sources, we discovered a large fraction of multiple systems. In this paper we investigate the orbital elements and kinematic properties of three new spectroscopic triple systems as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Klutsch , A. Frasca , P. Guillout , R. Freire Ferrero , E. Marilli , G. Mignemi , K. Biazzo