The Visual Binary 55 Tauri and the Hyades Distance
Abstract
Observations through the recent periastron passage give a revised orbit (P = 89.06 yr, a = 0arcsec.559). From the masses of this and five other main-sequence pairs, a cluster distance modulus of 3.35±0.07 is computed.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- July 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1086/132245
- Bibcode:
- 1988PASP..100..839H
- Keywords:
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- Astrometry;
- Binary Stars;
- Stellar Mass;
- Stellar Orbits;
- Distance;
- Main Sequence Stars;
- Orbital Elements;
- Astronomy;
- STARS: INDIVIDUAL;
- STARS: BINARIES;
- CLUSTERS: OPEN