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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

Speckle interferometric technique is employed to record a series of hundreds of short-exposure images of several close binary stars with sub-arcsecond separation through a narrow band filter at the Cassegrain focus of the 2.34 meter (m)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. K. Saha , V. Chinnappan , L. Yeswanth , P. Anbazhagan

New, updated, and/or revised CCD parallaxes determined with the Strand Astrometric Reflector at the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS) are presented. Included are results for 309 late-type dwarf and subdwarf stars observed over the…

We measured the angular diameters of six stars using the 6-element observing mode of the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI) for the first time since the early 2000s. Four of the diameters ranged from 1.2 mas to 1.9 mas, while the…

We present 248 speckle observations of 43 binary and 19 trinary star systems chosen to make progress in two main areas of investigation: the fundamental properties of metal poor stars and star formation mechanisms. The observations were…

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

The results of speckle interferometric observations of 115 metal-poor stars [m/H]<-1 within 250 pc from the Sun and with proper motions mu <= 0.2"/yr, made with the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian…

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interferometric observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) in 2020, as well as earlier unpublished data, are given, totaling 1735 measurements of 1288 resolved pairs and non-resolutions…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 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 anticipation of the possible collision between a circumstellar disk and the secondary star in the highly eccentric binary system Delta Scorpii, high angular resolution interferometric observations have been acquired aimed at revising the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Tycner , A. Ames , R. T. Zavala , C. A. Hummel , J. A. Benson , D. J. Hutter

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 report observations of the transiting extrasolar planet, HD 209458 b, designed to detect the secondary eclipse. We employ the method of `occultation spectroscopy', which searches in combined light (star and planet) for the disappearance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Jeremy Richardson , Drake Deming , Sara Seager

We discuss the design, construction, and operation of a new intensity interferometer, based on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. While this paper will focus on observations taken with an original…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Elliott P. Horch , Samuel A. Weiss , Paul M. Klaucke , Richard A. Pellegrino , Justin D. Rupert

The U.S. Naval Observatory Robotic Astrometric Telescope (URAT) is observing the northern sky since April 2012 for an astrometric survey. Multiple overlaps per year are performed in a single bandpass (680$-$750 nm) using the "redlens" 20 cm…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Norbert Zacharias

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

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 report the results of speckle runs at the 4.1-m Southern Astronomical Research (SOAR) telescope in 2012 and 2013. A total of 586 objects were observed. We give 699 measurements of 487 resolved binaries and upper detection limits for 112…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf

We present near-infrared parallax and proper motion astrometry for 74 L-dwarfs and 99 T-dwarfs, as single objects or in binary systems, obtained with the ASTROCAM astrometric imager on the USNO, Flagstaff Station 1.55-m telescope over two…

The astronomical results contained in this publication represent a continuation of previous work of the United States Naval Observatory Six-inch and Seven-inch transit circles. The results are also the last from United States Naval…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 T. J. Rafferty , E. R. Holdenried , S. E. Urban

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