Speckle Interferometry of Short-Period Binary Stars
Abstract
A research and development program for advancing speckle interferometry of shortperiod binary stars has seven major components. These are to: (1) create discovery target lists that are rich with potential binaries with under-observed components; (2) observe the binary targets with components with very small separations as guests at larger telescopes; (3) develop an atmospheric dispersion corrector to observe targets at high air masses from telescopes based in Hawaii; (4) continue the automation of speckle interferometry to survey thousands of binary candidates; (5) develop shaped-aperture masks to disperse the bright primary star light away from faint secondary star discovery zones; (6) refine the speckle data reduction procedures and develop bispectrum analysis to reduce multi-band differential photometric measurements; and (7) develop a simplified multi-frame blind deconvolution reduction technique for use with binary stars.
- Publication:
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Journal of Double Star Observations
- Pub Date:
- September 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015JDSO...11..323G