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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…

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

Optical stellar interferometers have demonstrated milli-arcsecond resolution with few apertures spaced hundreds of meters apart. To obtain rich direct images, many apertures will be needed, for a better sampling of the incoming wavefront.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-17 Arun Surya , Swapan K. Saha , Antoine Labeyrie

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

Results of 2433 intensified CCD observations of double stars, made with the 26-inch refractor of the U.S. Naval Observatory are presented. Each observation of a system represents a combination of over 2000 short-exposure images. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Gary L. Wycoff

Since 2007, close binary and multiple stars are observed by speckle interferometry at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope. The HRCam instrument, observing strategy and planning, data processing and calibration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Andrei Tokovinin

A technique is described for the detection and measurement of close binary systems whose images are unresolved. The method is based on analysis of the moment of inertia tensor of the image, from which the product of the binary flux ratio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Paul Hickson

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

The results of 3,989 intensified CCD observations of double stars, made with the 26-inch refractor of the U.S. Naval Observatory, are presented. Each observation of a system represents a combination of over two thousand short-exposure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Sean E. Urban , Jordan D. Josties

The results of 4,747 intensified CCD observations of double stars, made with the 26-inch refractor of the U.S. Naval Observatory, are presented. Each observation of a system represents a combination of over two thousand short-exposure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf

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

Sub-milliarcsecond imaging of nearby main sequence stars and binary systems can provide critical information on stellar phenomena such as rotational deformation, accretion effects, and the universality of starspot (sunspot) cycles.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Dave Kieda , Nolan Matthews

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

Spectroastrometry is a technique which has the potential to resolve flux distributions on scales of milliarcseconds. In this study, we examine the application of spectroastrometry to binary point sources which are spatially unresolved due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 John M. Porter , Rene D. Oudmaijer , Debbie Baines

This article begins with the discussions on the formation of speckles in the case of non-coherent quasi monochromatic source and of ways to detect them. Prior to this, a brief introduction on the behavior of the atmosphere and its effect on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Swapan K. Saha

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

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

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

Astrometry at centimeter wavelengths using Very Long Baseline Interferometry is approaching accuracies of ~1 uas for the angle between a target and a calibrator source separated by <1 degree on the sky. The BeSSeL Survey and the Japanese…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-13 Mark J. Reid

Spectroscopic observations are a crucial step in driving major discoveries in the era of time-domain surveys. However, the pace of current spectroscopic surveys is increasingly unable to meet the demands of rapidly advancing large-scale…