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most citedInterferometric Astrometry of Proxima Centauri and Barnard's Star Using Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3: Detection Limits for sub-Stellar Companions

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astro-ph.EP2024

The New Horizons Extended Mission Target: Arrokoth Search and Discovery

Marc W. Buie, John R. Spencer, Simon B. Porter +37

Following the Pluto fly-by of the New Horizons spacecraft, the mission provided a unique opportunity to explore the Kuiper Belt in-situ. The possibility existed to fly-by a Kuiper…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 32 cited

Asteroid spin-axis longitudes from the Lowell Observatory database

E. Bowell, D. A. Oszkiewicz, L. H. Wasserman +3

By analyzing brightness variation with ecliptic longitude and using the Lowell Observatory photometric database, we estimate spin-axis longitudes for more than 350 000 asteroids. H…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 12 cited

Masses and Distance of the Young Binary NTTS 045251+3016

M. Simon, G. H. Schaefer, L. Prato +4

As part of our continuing campaign to measure the masses of pre-main sequence stars dynamically and thus to assess the reliability of the discrepant theoretical calculations of con…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 4 cited

RX J0513.1+0851 AND RX J0539.9+0956: Two Young, Rapidly Rotating, Spectroscopic Binary Stars

Dary Ruíz-Rodríguez, L. Prato, Guillermo Torres +2

RX J0513.1+0851 and RX J0539.9+0956 were previously identified as young, low-mass, single-lined spectroscopic binary systems and classified as weak-lined T Tauri stars at visible w…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 10 cited

Dynamical Measurements of the Young Upper Scorpius Triple NTTS 155808-2219

G. N. Mace, L. Prato, G. Torres +3

The young, low-mass, triple system NTTS 155808-2219 (ScoPMS 20) was previously identified as a ~17-day period single-lined spectroscopic binary with a tertiary component at 0.21 ar…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 234 cited

YSOVAR: the first sensitive, wide-area, mid-IR photometric monitoring of the ONC

M. Morales-Calderón, J. R. Stauffer, L. A. Hillenbrand +33

We present initial results from time series imaging at infrared wavelengths of 0.9 sq. degrees in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). During Fall 2009 we obtained 81 epochs of Spitzer…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 12 cited

Orbital Solutions for Two Young, Low-Mass Spectroscopic Binaries in Ophiuchus

V. Rosero, L. Prato, L. H. Wasserman +1

We report the orbital parameters for ROXR1 14 and RX J1622.7-2325Nw, two young, low-mass, and double-lined spectroscopic binaries recently discovered in the Ophiuchus star forming…

astro-ph2004★ 91 cited

The Solar Neighborhood IX: Hubble Space Telescope Detections of Companions to Five M and L Dwarfs within 10 pc of the Sun

D. A. Golimowski, T. J. Henry, J. E. Krist +10

We report the detections of low-mass companions to five M and L dwarfs within 10 pc of the Sun using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrom…

astro-ph2001★ 51 cited

Interferometric Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3:The Parallax of the Cataclysmic Variable TV Columbae

B. E. McArthur, G. F. Benedict, J. Lee +13

TV Columbae (TV Col) is a 13th magnitude Intermediate Polar (IP) Cataclysmic Variable (CV), with multiple periods found in the light curves. Past estimates predicted a distance of…

astro-ph2000★ 43 cited

Interferometric Astrometry of the Low-mass Binary Gl 791.2 (= HU Del) Using Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3: Parallax and Component Masses

G. Fritz Benedict, Barbara E. McArthur, Otto G. Franz +2

With fourteen epochs of fringe tracking data spanning 1.7y from Fine Guidance Sensor 3 we have obtained a parallax (pi_abs=113.1 +- 0.3 mas) and perturbation orbit for Gl 791.2A. C…

astro-ph2000★ 24 cited

Interferometric Astrometry of the Detached White Dwarf - M Dwarf Binary Feige 24 Using Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3: White Dwarf Radius and Component Mass Estimates

G. F. Benedict, B. E. McArthur, O. G. Franz +14

With HST FGS 3 we have determined a parallax for the white dwarf - M dwarf interacting binary, Feige 24. The white dwarf (DA) component has an effective temperature, T_eff of appro…

astro-ph1999★ 321 cited

Interferometric Astrometry of Proxima Centauri and Barnard's Star Using Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3: Detection Limits for sub-Stellar Companions

G. Fritz Benedict, Barbara McArthur, D. W. Chappell +13

We report on a sub-stellar companion search utilizing interferometric fringe-tracking astrometry acquired with Fine Guidance Sensor 3 (FGS 3) on the Hubble Space Telescope. Our tar…

astro-ph1999★ 41 cited

Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3: The Parallax of the Cataclysmic Variable RW Triangulum

B. E. McArthur, G. F. Benedict, J. Lee +12

RW Triangulum (RW Tri) is a 13th magnitude Nova-like Cataclysmic Variable star with an orbital period of 0.2319 days (5.56 hours). Infrared observations of RW Tri indicate that its…