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Orbital motions in four hierarchical stellar systems discovered by speckle interferometry are studied. Their inner orbits are relatively well constrained, while the long outer orbits are less certain. The eccentric and misaligned inner…

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

Statistics of the angle \Phi between orbital angular momenta in hierarchical triple systems with known inner visual or astrometric orbits are studied. Correlation between apparent revolution directions proves partial orbit alignment known…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Andrei Tokovinin

The stellar rotation periods of ten exoplanet host stars have been determined using newly analysed Ca II H & K flux records from Mount Wilson Observatory and Stromgren b, y photometric measurements from Tennessee State University's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Elaine Simpson , Sallie Baliunas , Greg Henry , Chris Watson

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

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

Several nearby solar-type dwarfs with variable radial velocity were monitored to find their spectroscopic orbits. Orbital elements of HIP 179, 1989, 2981, 5276, 6439, 11218, 21443, 96434 are determined, as well as tentative orbits for HIP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 N. A. Gorynya , A. Tokovinin

The young nearby solar-type star HD 91962 is a rare quadruple system where three companions revolve around the main component with periods of 170.3 days, 8.85 years, and 205 years. The two outer orbits are nearly co-planar, and all orbits…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrei Tokovinin , David W. Latham , Brian D. Mason

We consider the general spatial three body problem and study the dynamics of planetary systems consisting of a star and two planets which evolve into 2/1 mean motion resonance and into inclined orbits. Our study is focused on the periodic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 K. I. Antoniadou , G. Voyatzis

Orbits of 44 close and fast visual binaries are computed using the latest speckle observations; 23 orbits are determined for the first time, the rest are revisions, some quite substantial. Six combined orbits use radial velocities. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Andrei Tokovinin

The HR8799 planetary system with four ~10 mJup planets in wide orbits up to 70 au, and periods up to 500 yr has been detected with the direct imaging. Its intriguing orbital architecture is not fully resolved due to time-limited astrometry…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Krzysztof Gozdziewski , Cezary Migaszewski

We observed 15 of the solar-type binaries within 67 pc of the Sun previously observed by the Robo-AO system in the visible, with the PHARO near-IR camera and the PALM-3000 adaptive optics system on the 5 m Hale telescope. The physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Lewis C. Roberts, , Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Anne D. Marinan

Many exoplanets are discovered in binary star systems in internal or in circumbinary orbits. Whether the planet can be habitable or not depends on the possibility to maintain liquid water on its surface, and therefore on the luminosity of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 G. De Cesare , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

We present precision radial velocity (RV) data sets from Keck-HIRES and from Lick Observatory's new Automated Planet Finder Telescope and Levy Spectrometer on Mt. Hamilton that reveal a multiple-planet system orbiting the nearby, slightly…

Debates regarding the age and inclination of the planetary system orbiting HR 8799, and the release of additional astrometric data following the discovery of the fourth planet prompted us to examine the possibility of constraining these two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jeffrey J. Sudol , Nader Haghighipour

HIP 53731 is a binary consisting of stars of the spectral types K0 and K9. Orbit of this object was constructed previously by Cvetkovi'c et al. (2016) and improved by Tokovinin (2019). It should be noted that there is an 180 degree…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 A. Mitrofanova , V. Dyachenko , A. Beskakotov , Yu. Balega , A. Maksimov , D. Rastegaev , S. Komarinsky

We present synoptic optical photometry of HD 189733, the chromospherically active parent star of one of the most intensively studied exoplanets. We have significantly extended the timespan of our previously reported observations and refined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gregory W. Henry , Joshua N. Winn

We present a test for spin-orbit alignment for the host stars of 25 candidate planetary systems detected by the {\it Kepler} spacecraft. The inclination angle of each star's rotation axis was estimated from its rotation period, rotational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Teruyuki Hirano , Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda , Yoichi Takeda , Joshua N. Winn , Norio Narita , Yasuhiro H. Takahashi

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…

New photometric, spectroscopic, and eclipse timing observations of the eclipsing binary star HP Aur allow for very accurate orbital determinations, even in the presence of a third body and transient starspot activity. The eclipsing binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Claud H. Sandberg Lacy , Guillermo Torres , Marek Wolf , Charles L. Burks

HR 8799 is currently the only multiple-planet system that has been detected with direct imaging, with four giant planets orbiting at large separations from this young late A star. Orbital motion provides insight into the stability, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-10 Remi Soummer , J. Brendan Hagan , Laurent Pueyo , Adrien Thormann , Abhijith Rajan , Christian Marois