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Conventional ground-based optical telescopes, even those with large apertures, primarily observe stars, close binaries, and multiple systems as unresolved point sources through photometric measurements. Spectroscopy can identify multiple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Km Nitu Rai , Neelam Panwar , Jeewan C Pandey , T S Kumar , Subrata Sarangi , Prasenjit Saha

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 present the results of 938 speckle measures of double stars and suspected double stars drawn mainly from the Hipparcos Catalogue, as well as 208 observations where no companion was noted. One hundred fourteen pairs have been resolved for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Elliott P. Horch , Gerard T. van Belle , James W. Davidson, , Lindsay A. Ciastko , Mark E. Everett , Karen S. Bjorkman

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

We report on speckle observations of binary stars carried out at the WIYN Telescope over the period from September 2010 through February 2012, providing relative astrometry for 2521 observations of 883 objects, 856 of which are double stars…

Using the adaptive optics facilities at the 200-in Hale and 10-m Keck II, we observed in the near infrared a sample of 12 binary and multiple stars and one open cluster. We used the near diffraction limited images of these systems to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. G. Hełminiak , M. Konacki , S. R. Kulkarni , J. Eisner

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

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

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

Astronomers have been measuring the separations and position angles between the two components of binary stars since William Herschel began his observations in 1781. In 1970, Anton Labeyrie pioneered a method, speckle interferometry, that…

In this paper, we present an original observational approach, which combines, for the first time, traditional speckle imaging with image post-processing to obtain in the optical domain diffraction-limited images with high contrast (1e-5)…

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

We present a feasibility study exploring the implementation of optical interferometry and speckle techniques with the 1.3-m Devasthal Fast Optical Telescope (DFOT) at ARIES, which is currently dedicated to photometric observations. Using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Km Nitu Rai , Arjun Dawn , Neelam Panwar , Jeewan C Pandey , Subrata Sarangi , Prasenjit Saha

To improve the statistics of hierarchical multiplicity, secondary components of wide nearby binaries with solar-type primaries were surveyed at the SOAR telescope for evaluating the frequency of subsystems. Images of 17 faint secondaries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrei Tokovinin

A combination of high-resolution and wide-field imaging reveals two binary stars and one triple star system among the sample of the first 11 stars with planets detected by radial velocity variations. High resolution speckle or adaptive…

The orbits of 8 systems with low-mass components (HIP 14524, HIP 16025, HIP 28671, HIP 46199, HIP 47791, HIP 60444, HIP 61100 and HIP 73085) are presented. Speckle interferometric data were obtained at the 6 m Big Alt-azimuth Special…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-29 A. Mitrofanova , V. Dyachenko , A. Beskakotov , Yu. Balega , A. Maksimov , D. Rastegaev , S. Komarinsky

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

Twenty multiple stellar systems with solar-type primaries were observed at high angular resolution using the PALM-3000 adaptive optics system at the 5 m Hale telescope. The goal was to complement the knowledge of hierarchical multiplicity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Lewis C. Roberts, , Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Reed L. Riddle

We have designed and constructed a second-generation version of the Dispersed Fourier Transform Spectrograph, or dFTS. This instrument combines a spectral interferometer with a dispersive spectrograph to provide high-accuracy,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Bradford B. Behr , Arsen R. Hajian , Andrew T. Cenko , Marc Murison , Robert S. McMillan , Robert Hindsley , Jeff Meade

Intensity interferometry for astrophysical observations has gained increasing interest in the last decade. The method of correlating photon fluxes at different telescopes for high resolution astronomy without access to the phase of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Andreas Zmija , Naomi Vogel , Frederik Wohlleben , Gisela Anton , Adrian Zink , Stefan Funk