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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

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…

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

There should be about 10,000 stellar hierarchical systems within 100 pc with primary stars more massive than 0.5 Msun, and a similar amount of less massive hierarchies. A list of 8000 candidate multiples is derived from wide binaries found…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Andrei Tokovinin

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…

Accurate stellar masses are requested in order to improve our understanding of stellar interiors, but they are still rather rare. Fortunately, the forthcoming Gaia Mission will provide astrometric measurements permitting the derivation of…

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

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

We report high resolution optical speckle observations of 336 M dwarfs which result in 113 measurements of relative position of 80 systems and 256 other stars with no indications of duplicity. These are the first measurements for two of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Korie N. Miles , John P. Subasavage , Deepak Raghavan , Todd J. Henry

Here we present speckle observations of 16 low-separation ($s<30$ AU) high probability candidate binaries from the catalog by Medan et al., where secondaries typically lack astrometric solutions in Gaia. From these speckle observations, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Ilija Medan , Sébastien Lépine , Zachary Hartman , Keivan G. Stassun

We present the multiple stellar systems observed within the SpHere INfrared survey for Exoplanet (SHINE). SHINE searched for substellar companions to young stars using high contrast imaging. Although stars with known stellar companions…

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…

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

We present the results of a survey for stellar and substellar companions to 82 young stars in the nearby OB association Upper Scorpius. This survey used nonredundant aperture-mask interferometry to achieve typical contrast limits of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam L. Kraus , Michael J. Ireland , Frantz Martinache , James P. Lloyd

Gaia two-parameter (G2P) stars have cumulative errors in parallax and proper motion so great that only their mean positions were reported in DR3. One potential cause of these high errors is another star as indicated by two intensity peaks…

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…

Results of a large program of spectroscopic monitoring of nearby solar-type stellar hierarchical systems using the CHIRON echelle spectrograph at the 1.5 m telescope are summarized. Ten papers of this series contain 102 spectroscopic orbits…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Andrei Tokovinin

We present the results of a speckle interferometric survey of Galactic massive stars that complements and expands upon a similar survey made over a decade ago. The speckle observations were made with the KPNO and CTIO 4 m telescopes and…

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

We conducted a survey of nearby binary systems composed of main sequence stars of spectral types F and G in order to improve our understanding of the hierarchical nature of multiple star systems. Using Robo-AO, the first robotic adaptive…