Visual Double Stars: Formation, Dynamics and Evolutionary Tracks

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Twenty Years of Speckle Interferometry....Pages 3-8
Les Binaires Visuelles Serrées....Pages 9-13
Improving Astrometric Measurements Using Image Reconstruction....Pages 15-25
Optical Spectra of Some Visual Binaries with Variable Component....Pages 27-33
Reduction of CCD Observations of Double and Multiple Stars....Pages 35-41
Measurement Precision of the Yale-San Juan Speckle Interferometry Program....Pages 43-53
Images of Mizar a from Long Baseline Optical Interferometry....Pages 55-61
Observations of Be and B Binary Stars with the Speckle Spectroscopic Method....Pages 63-71
Speckle Masking Imaging of the Spectroscopic Binaries Gliese 150.2 and 41 Draconis....Pages 73-78
Observations of Double Stars from the Venezuelan National Astronomical Observatory....Pages 79-83
Physical and Optical Visual Double Stars of the North-Polar Area as Obtained by Photographic Observations at Pulkovo....Pages 85-88
A Few New Wide Pairs....Pages 89-94
The Pulkovo Programme of Photographic Observations of Spectroscopic Binary Stars as the Stars with Invisible Satellites....Pages 95-98
The Automatic Machine “Fantasy” Employment for the Measurements of the Stars with Dark Companions....Pages 99-106
Une Nouvelle Méthode de Détermination des Éléments de Position d’une Étoile Double Visuelle à Partir d’une Image Acquise avec un Dispositif à Transfert de Charge....Pages 107-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Statistics of Young Visual Binary Stars: Implications for (Binary) Star Formation....Pages 115-125
The Maximum Ages of Trapezium Systems....Pages 127-131
The Distribution of Separations of Wide Binaries....Pages 133-143
The Effect of Accretion on Young Hierarchical Triple Systems....Pages 145-151
The Effects of Accretion during Binary Star Formation....Pages 153-164
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Hierarchical Systems in Open Clusters....Pages 165-178
Absolute Dimensions in Visual Binaries with Double-Lined Eclipsing Components....Pages 179-186
Calibration of the Mass-Luminosity Relation, II: Data from the General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes, 1995....Pages 187-190
Evolutionary Effects in the Separations of Wide Binaries....Pages 191-198
Wide Binaries in the Hyades Cluster....Pages 199-203
On the Nature of the Secondaries of the Am Stars....Pages 205-208
Hot Subdwarfs in Binaries: Evolution and Physical Parameters....Pages 209-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Mutual Perturbations of the Planetary Companions of Pulsar B1257+12....Pages 215-220
Searches for Planets Around Neutron Stars....Pages 221-231
Stable Planetary Orbits in Binary Systems....Pages 233-240
Wide Binaries from Few-Body Interactions....Pages 241-257
Third Body Perturbations of Double Stars....Pages 259-268
Numerical Treatment of Small Stellar Systems with Binaries....Pages 269-288
Periodic Orbits in the Restricted Three Body Problem with Radiation Pressure....Pages 289-297
Dynamics and Evolutionary Status of the Young Triple Stellar System, TY CrA....Pages 299-308
Crossing Areas of Quasiperiodicity: A New Technique....Pages 309-312
Application of the Gauss’ Method to the Stellar Three Body Problem....Pages 313-320
The Stroboscopic Method Applied to the Study of Zeta Cancri....Pages 321-329
On the Two-Body Problem with Slowly Decreasing Mass....Pages 331-339
On the Numerical Integration of Two Body Problem with Variable Mass....Pages 341-346
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Perturbed Gylden Systems and Time-Dependent Delaunay Like Transformations....Pages 347-356
A Direct Geometrical Method for Determination of the Elliptic Orbit of a Binary Star Using Its Projection on the Celestial Sphere....Pages 357-359
On Reduction of the Nonstationary Two-Body Problem to Oscillator Form....Pages 361-366
Orbits for Two Southern Double Stars....Pages 367-372
The Restricted 2 + 2 Body Problem: The Permissible Areas of Motion of the Minor Bodies Close to the Collinear Equilibria of Their Center of Mass....Pages 373-375
Visual Double Stars Orbits Obtained by Apparent Motion Parameters Method at Pulkovo....Pages 377-382
A New Method Used to Re-Visit the Visual Orbit of the Spectroscopic Triple System η Orionis A....Pages 383-388
The Reexamination of Gliese 623A Orbital Motion on the Basis of Automatic Measurements....Pages 389-394
Correction of Visual Binary Stars Orbits With a Precise Number of Observations or Normal Points....Pages 395-399
Front Matter....Pages 401-401
Hipparcos Contribution to Binary Evolution Research....Pages 403-427
The V-(B-V) Diagram of the Tycho Double Stars....Pages 429-438
Accurate CCD Photometry and Astrometry for Hipparcos Visual Double Stars....Pages 439-449
Detection, Astrometry and Photometry of Visual Binaries With Hipparcos....Pages 451-460
The Treatment of Double Stars in the Hipparcos-Tycho Programme....Pages 461-467
Double Star Detection in the Tycho Photon Counts....Pages 469-474
Mass Determination of Astrometric Binaries With Hipparcos....Pages 475-481
Front Matter....Pages 483-483
Thirty Years of Work: Construction of the Washington Visual Double Star Catalog and Its Future....Pages 485-487
Research Into Double Stars and Celestial Mechanics at the R.M. Aller Observatory: A New Ephemeris Catalogue....Pages 489-495
Mass-Ratio Distributions from Δ M -Statistics for Nearby Hipparcos Binaries....Pages 497-508