Three bright B stars discovered to be double
Abstract
Observations with a photoelectric interferometer (a simplified version of a speckle interferometer) mounted on a 1-m telescope demonstrate that the bright B stars Zeta, Dra, Omicron Her, and Iota Lyr are binary systems. All three are likely to have short periods. Analysis of the kinematic properties of B stars and their typical spectrum indicates that many of them are probably undiscovered binaries.
- Publication:
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Pisma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal
- Pub Date:
- December 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981PAZh....7..692S
- Keywords:
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- B Stars;
- Binary Stars;
- Interferometry;
- Stellar Spectra;
- Astronomy