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The speckle interferometry program at the the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR), started in 2008, now accumulated over 30,300 individual observations of 12,700 distinct targets. Its main goal is to monitor orbital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Rene A. Mendez , Edgardo Costa

The results of speckle interferometric observations at the SOAR telescope in 2014 are given. A total of 1641 observations were taken, yielding 1636 measurements of 1218 resolved binary and multiple stars and 577 non-resolutions of 441…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Rene A. Mendez , Elliott P. Horch

The results of speckle interferometric observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) in 2018 are given, totaling 3097 measurements of 2427 resolved pairs with separations from 11 mas to 5.9" (median 0.15",…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Rene A. Mendez , Elliott P. Horch , Cesar Briceno

The results of speckle interferometric observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) in 2019 are given, totaling 2555 measurements of 1972 resolved pairs with separations from 15 mas (median 0.21") and magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Rene A. Mendez , Edgardo Costa , Elliott P. Horch

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interferometric observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) in 2020, as well as earlier unpublished data, are given, totaling 1735 measurements of 1288 resolved pairs and non-resolutions…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

The results of speckle interferometric observations at the SOAR telescope in 2015 are given, totalling 1303 measurements of 924 resolved binary and multiple stars and non-resolutions of 260 targets. The separations range from 12 mas to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Rene A. Mendez , Elliott P. Horch

Results of the speckle-interferometry observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) obtained during 2023 are presented: 1913 measurements of 1533 resolved pairs or subsystems (median separation 0.16") and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Rene A. Mendez , Edgardo Costa

The results of speckle interferometric observations at the 4.1 m SOAR telescope in 2016 and 2017 are given, totaling 2483 measurements of 1570 resolved pairs and 609 non-resolutions. We describe briefly recent changes in the instrument and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Rene A. Mendez , Elliott P. Horch

The results of speckle interferometric measurements of binary and multiple stars conducted in 2008 and 2009 at the Blanco and SOAR 4-m telescopes in Chile are presented. A total of 1898 measurements of 1189 resolved pairs or sub-systems and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-21 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf

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

Results of speckle observations at the 4.1-m SOAR telescope in 2012 (158 measures of 121 systems, 27 non-resolutions) are reported. The aim is to follow fast orbital motion of recently discovered or neglected close binaries and sub-systems.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrei Tokovinin

Results of speckle interferometry observations at the 4.1 m SOuthern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope obtained during 2024-2025 are presented. We present 5316 measurements of relative positions and magnitude differences in 3532 pairs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Rene A. Mendez , Edgardo Costa

The High Resolution Camera (HRCam) speckle imager at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research telescope is a highly productive instrument that has accumulated about 40K observations to date. Its performance (detected flux, level of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Andrei Tokovinin

Bright single and binary stars were observed at the 4.1-m telescope with a fast electron-multiplication camera in the regime of partial turbulence correction by the visible-light adaptive optics system. We compare the angular resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Tokovinin , R. Cantarutti , R. Tighe , P. Schurter , N. van der Bliek , M. Martinez , E. Mondaca

We present results from Speckle inteferometric observations of fifteen visual binaries and one double-line spectroscopic binary, carried out with the HRCam Speckle camera of the SOAR 4.1 m telescope. These systems were observed as a part of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Rene A. Mendez , Ruben M. Claveria , Edgardo Costa

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 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

The results of speckle interferometric observations of 104 binary and 6 triple stars performed at the BTA 6 m telescope in 2004 October are presented. Nearby low-mass stars are mostly observed for the program, among which 59 there are new…

We report 370 measures of 170 components of binary and multiple star systems, obtained from speckle imaging observations made with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument at Lowell Observatory's Discovery Channel Telescope in 2015…

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
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