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We present the results of a radial velocity (RV) survey of 14 brown dwarfs (BDs) and very low-mass (VLM) stars in the Upper Scorpius OB association (UScoOB) and 3 BD candidates in the rho Ophiuchi dark cloud core. We obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ryuichi Kurosawa , Tim J. Harries , S. P. Littlefair

CONTEXT: Accurate mass, radius, and abundance determinations from binaries provide important information on stellar evolution, fundamental to central fields in modern astrophysics and cosmology. AIMS: Within the long-term Copenhagen Binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. V. Clausen , L. P. R. Vaz , J. M. Garcia , A. Gimenez , B. E. Helt , E. H. Olsen , J. Andersen

We present rotation periods for the solar-type primary stars in 13 close (a~< 5 AU) single-lined spectroscopic binaries with known orbital periods (P) and eccentricities (e). All binaries are members of the open clusters M35 (150Myr) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Soren Meibom , Robert D. Mathieu , Keivan G. Stassun

We present results of the CFHT adaptive optics search for companions of a homogeneous group of contact binary stars, as a contribution to our attempts to prove a hypothesis that these binaries require a third star to become so close as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Slavek M. Rucinski , Theodor Pribulla , Marten van Kerkwijk

Repeated spectroscopic observations of stars in the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) database are used to identify and examine single-lined binary (SB1) candidates. The RAVE latest internal database (VDR3) includes radial velocities,…

We present new V-band differential brightness measurements as well as new radial-velocity measurements of the detached, circular, 0.84-day period, double-lined eclipsing binary system CV Boo. These data along with other observations from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guillermo Torres , Luiz Paulo R. Vaz , Claud H. Sandberg Lacy

We develop a technique to measure radial velocities of stars from spectra that present four sets of lines. The algorithm is an extension of the two-dimensional cross-correlation method TODCOR to four dimensions. It computes the correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Guillermo Torres , David W. Latham , R. P. Stefanik

We present three improved and five new mutual orbits of transneptunian binary systems (58534) Logos-Zoe, (66652) Borasisi-Pabu, (88611) Teharonhiawako-Sawiskera, (123509) 2000 WK183, (149780) Altjira, 2001 QY297, 2003 QW111, and 2003 QY90…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 W. M. Grundy , K. S. Noll , F. Nimmo , H. G. Roe , M. W. Buie , S. B. Porter , S. D. Benecchi , D. C. Stephens , H. F. Levison , J. A. Stansberry

We present a search for gravitational waves from merging binary neutron stars which have non-negligible eccentricity as they enter the LIGO observing band. We use the public Advanced LIGO data which covers the period from 2015 through 2017…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-24 Alexander H. Nitz , Amber Lenon , Duncan A. Brown

Wide-binary stars, separated by thousands of AU, reside in low-acceleration regimes where Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) predicts deviation from Newtonian gravity. However, Gaia radial velocities (RVs) lack the precision to resolve the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Serat Mahmud Saad , Yuan-Sen Ting

Context. The CARMENES spectrograph is surveying ~300 M dwarf stars in search for exoplanets. Among the target stars, spectroscopic binary systems have been discovered, which can be used to measure fundamental properties of stars. Aims.…

We present a catalog of 857 white dwarf (WD)-M binaries from the sixth data release (DR6) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), most of which were previously identified. For 636 of them, we complete a spectral analysis and derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 René Heller , Derek Homeier , Stefan Dreizler , Roy Østensen

The period, mass ratio, eccentricity, and other orbital parameters are fundamental for investigating binary star evolution. However, the number of binaries with known orbital parameters remains limited. Utilizing the LAMOST-MRS survey, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Sufen Guo , Mikhail Kovalev , Jiao Li , Guoliang Lu , Shi Jia , Zhenwei Li , Jiangdan Li , Jianping Xiong , Mingkuan Yang , Tongyu He , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

We present the most precise to date orbital and physical parameters of the well known short period (P=5.975 d), eccentric (e=0.3) double-lined spectroscopic binary BY Draconis, a prototype of a class of late-type, active, spotted flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 K. G. Hełminiak , M. Konacki , M. W. Muterspaugh , S. E. Browne , A. W. Howard , S. R. Kulkarni

We report our discovery of an extremely rare, low mass, quadruple-lined spectroscopic binary BD-22 5866 (=NLTT 53279, integrated spectral type = M0 V), found during an ongoing search for the youngest M dwarfs in the solar neighborhood. From…

The Kepler mission has provided high-accurate photometric data in a long time span for more than two hundred thousands stars, looking for planetary transits. Among the detected candidates, the planetary nature of around 15% has been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 J. Lillo-Box , D. Barrado , L. Mancini , Th. Henning , P. Figueira , S. Ciceri , N. Santos

We aim at searching for secular evolution of the orbital period in the short-period binary system WR 127 (WN3b+O9.5V, $P = 9.555^d$). We performed new low-resolution spectroscopic observations of WR 127 on 2.5-m CMO SAI telescope to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-12 I. A. Shaposhnikov , A. M. Cherepashchuk , A. V. Dodin , K. A. Postnov

WR 31a (Hen 3-519) is likely a post-luminous blue variable (LBV) star that is evolving to become a classical Wolf-Rayet star. Multicolor (UBVR) photopolarimetric observations of WR 31a were obtained over nine nights in early 2007. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 Christiana Erba , Richard Ignace , Faith Simmons , Ben Davies

{\alpha}Vir is a well known double-lined spectroscopic binary with a B-type for both components. In the present paper we have analyzed a total of 90 spectra obtained through 1992-2000. Spectral analysis are based on two spectral lines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-06 M. I. Nouh , S. M. Saad , I. Zaid , M. M. Elkhateeb , E. Elkholy

We present the discovery of a new highly compact quadruple star system, TIC 219006972, consisting of two eclipsing binary stars with orbital periods of 8.3 days and 13.7 days, and an outer orbital period of only 168 days. This period is a…