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Differential astrometry measurements from the Palomar High-precision Astrometric Search for Exoplanet Systems have been combined with lower precision single-aperture measurements covering a much longer timespan (from eyepiece measurements,…

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 VERITAS Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) array was augmented in 2019 with high-speed focal plane electronics to allow its use for Stellar Intensity Interferometry (SII) observations. Since January 2019, the VERITAS Stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-24 David Kieda , Jonathan Davis , Tugdual LeBohec , Mike Lisa , Nolan K. Matthews

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 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

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…

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interferometric observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) in 2020, as well as earlier unpublished data, are given, totaling 1735 measurements of 1288 resolved pairs and non-resolutions…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

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 describe a high speed time-series CCD photometer for the prime focus of the 82-in (2.1 m) telescope at McDonald Observatory, and summarize the observational results we have obtained since it was placed into regular use in February, 2002.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. E. Nather , Anjum. S. Mukadam

A sample of 33 eclipsing binaries observed in a field of the SMC with FLAMES@VLT is presented. The radial velocity curves obtained, together with existing OGLE light curves, allowed the determination of all stellar and orbital parameters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre L. North , Romain Gauderon , Frederic Royer

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 third US Naval Observatory (USNO) CCD Astrograph Catalog, UCAC3 was released at the IAU General Assembly on 2009 August 10. It is the first all-sky release in this series and contains just over 100 million objects, about 95 million of…

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…

Observations, analysis techniques and photometric properties of a multi-narrowband survey of a 20 square-degree area of sky at +33 degrees declination are described. The survey is conducted with the 3-meter liquid-mirror telescope of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Hickson , Mark K. Mulrooney

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

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…

In order to study the potential in high precision CCD astrometry of irregular satellites, we have made experimental observations for Himalia, the sixth and irregular satellite of Jupiter. A total of 185 CCD observations were obtained by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 H. W. Peng , N. Wang , Q. Y. Peng