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Searching for Optical Visual Double Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D. Sinachopoulos  and
P. Mouzourakis
D. Sinachopoulos
Affiliation:
Royal Belgian Observatory, Ringlaan 3, B–1180 Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

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We study a sample of 123 wide visual double stars for which astrophysical parameters are at least partly available from uvby Hβ photometry. All of these have components brighter than 10 mags and a component angular separation between 10 and 20 arcseconds.

We find that at least one third of them are optical; for relative proper motion (RPM) pairs this fraction is 60% or even more. These results are in fair agreement with the predictions we formulated in an earlier paper on the basis of a statistical criterion.

Information

Type
Theoretical Aspects
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 135: Complementary Approaches to Double and Multiple Star Research , 1992 , pp. 252 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1992

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