Multicolour observations of nearby visual double stars. New CCD measurements and orbits

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Issue		A&A Volume 368, Number 2, March III 2001


Page(s)		572 - 579
Section		Formation, structure and evolution of stars
DOI		http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20010024

A&A 368, 572-579 (2001)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20010024

Multicolour observations of nearby visual double stars. New CCD measurements and orbits

P. Lampens¹ and A. Strigachev^{1, 2}

¹ Royal Observatory of Belgium, Av. Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
² Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigradsko Chausse Blvd., 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
e-mail: Anton.Strigachev@oma.be

(Received 20 September 2000 / Accepted 15 December 2000 )

Abstract
We present multicolour CCD observations of nine nearby visual double stars obtained in August and September 1999 with the 1.3-m telescope at Skinakas Observatory. The results consist of relative positions (epochs, angular separations and position angles) and differential $BV\!RI$ photometry. We confirm the physical association in eight cases. Previously known orbits do not match the new data for three systems. Orbits have been recalculated when sufficient data were available. We principally improve the precision of the known orbits for three binaries and show the acute lack of precision in two other cases. In one case, the components are shown to move apart with a linear relative speed of 0.050´´/yr.

Key words: stars: binaries: visual -- stars: fundamental parameters -- stars: nearby -- techniques: photometric -- astrometry

Offprint request: P. Lampens, Patricia.Lampens@oma.be

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