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Mirror facets of the H.E.S.S. imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes are aligned using stars imaged onto the closed lid of the PMT camera, viewed by a CCD camera. The alignment procedure works reliably and includes the automatic analysis…

We report new measurements of the position angle and separation of the double star WDS 03245+5938 STI 450, based on our observations, Gaia EDR3, and historical data. We find that the position angle and separation are 209.7{\deg} and 7.68",…

Near-diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopy in the visible on large (8-10 meter) class telescopes has proved to be beyond the capabilities of current adaptive optics technologies, even when using laser guide stars. The need for high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Craig Mackay , Tim D. Staley , David King , Frank Suess , Keith Weller

We present 25 new eclipse times of the white dwarf binary NN Ser taken with the high-speed camera ULTRACAM on the WHT and NTT, the RISE camera on the Liverpool Telescope, and HAWK-I on the VLT to test the two-planet model proposed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 T. R. Marsh , S. G. Parsons , M. C. P. Bours , S. P. Littlefair , C. M. Copperwheat , V. S. Dhillon , E. Breedt , C. Caceres , M. R. Schreiber

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 report first results from an ongoing monitoring campaign to measure time delays between the six images of the quasar SDSS\,J2222$+$2745, gravitationally lensed by a galaxy cluster. The time delay between A and B, the two most highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 H. Dahle , M. D. Gladders , K. Sharon , M. B. Bayliss , J. R. Rigby

WDS 03286+2523 BRT 133, is a double-star system that has been under observation since 1896. In this study, we present new measurements of the position angle and separation of the system, utilizing data obtained from a web telescope with a…

Radial velocity (RV) monitoring of solar-type visual binaries has been conducted at the CTIO/SMARTS 1.5-m telescope to study short-period systems. Data reduction is described, mean and individual RVs of 163 observed objects are given. New…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-05 Andrei Tokovinin

As a part of our ongoing Volume-limited A-Star (VAST) adaptive optics survey, we have obtained observations of 26 binary systems with projected separations <100 AU, 13 of which have sufficient historical measurements to allow for refinement…

We present the results of our 2nd radial velocity monitoring campaign, carried out with the \'Echelle spectrograph FLECHAS at the University Observatory Jena in the course of the Gro{\ss}schwabhausen binary survey between December 2016 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 T. Heyne , M. Mugrauer , R. Bischoff , D. Wagner , S. Hoffmann , O. Lux , V. Munz , M. Geymeier , R. Neuhäuser

We present contemporaneous X-ray, ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared observations of the black hole binary system, Swift J1753.5-0127, acquired in 2012 October. The UV observations, obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 C. S. Froning , T. J. Maccarone , K. France , L. Winter , E. L. Robinson , R. I. Hynes , F. Lewis

We present photometric CCD observations of stars in four stellar trapezia ADS 15184, ADS 4728, ADS 2843, and ADS 16795. This study is performed on images obtained at the Observatorio Astron\'omico Nacional at San Pedro M\'artir (OAN), Baja…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-04 A. Ruelas-Mayorga , L. J. Sánchez , A. Páez-Amador , O. Segura-Montero , A. Nigoche-Netro

The present articlereports on the first spatial intensity interferometry measurements on stars since the observations at Narrabri Observatory by Hanbury Brown et al. in the 1970's. Taking advantage of the progresses in recent years on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-14 W. Guerin , J. -P. Rivet , M. Fouché , G. Labeyrie , D. Vernet , F. Vakili , R. Kaiser

We report the main results of our six year long intensive optical monitoring on blazars ON 231 (W Com), BL Lac, and 3C 273. Intensive optical monitoring is an indispensable tool to obtain well sampled light curves and thus to understand the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 G. Tosti , S. Ciprini , E. Massaro , M. Maesano , F. Montagni , R. Nesci

We present a new instrument, the "Stellar Double Coronagraph" (SDC), a flexible coronagraphic platform. Designed for Palomar Observatory's 200" Hale telescope, its two focal and pupil planes allow for a number of different observing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-24 Michael Bottom , J. Chris Shelton , James K. Wallace , Randall Bartos , Jonas Kuhn , Dimitri Mawet , Bertrand Mennesson , Rick Burruss , Eugene Serabyn

Photometry results of 32 asteroids are reported from only seven observing nights on only seven fields, consisting of 34.11 cumulative hours of observations. The data were obtained with a wide-field CCD (40.5'x27.3') mounted on a small,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Polishook , N. Brosch

Magnetic chemically peculiar stars of the main sequence can present rotational periods as long as many decades. Here we report the results of an observational campaign started in 2001 aimed at establishing these very long periods from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-22 M. Giarrusso , M. Cecconi , R. Cosentino , M. Munari , A. Ghedina , F. Ambrosino , W. Boschin , F. Leone

We present results of a high angular resolution survey of massive OB stars in the Cygnus OB2 association that we conducted with the Fine Guidance Sensor 1R (FGS1r) on the Hubble Space Telescope. FGS1r is able to resolve binary systems with…

Project 1640 is a high-contrast imaging instrument recently commissioned at Palomar observatory. A combination of a coronagraph with an integral field spectrograph (IFS), Project 1640 is designed to detect and characterize extrasolar…

We investigate the membership in double, triple or higher-order-multiplicity systems of 54 pairs with at least one bright M dwarf in the solar neighbourhood. These M dwarfs are potential targets of radial-velocity surveys for exoplanets. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-22 M. Cortés-Contreras , J. A. Caballero , D. Montes