Orbital solutions for the A-type binaries α Dra and Mizar A using spectrum disentangling
Abstract
The single-lined 51.420d spectroscopic binary α Dra (HD 123299, Thuban, spectral type A0 III) is a slightly metal poor star. First orbital elements were obtained by Harper in 1907. Mizar A (HD 116656, spectral type A2 V) is a double-lined 20.53 d spectroscopic binary first reported by Pickering in 1890. Its orbital elements were determined by Vogel in 1901. The redetermination of the orbital elements for these two binaries used the spectrum disentangling computer code KOREL (Hadrava 1995, 1997). We present revised orbital elements based on new electronic spectra taken at the Ondrejov Observatory between 1994 and 2003.
- Publication:
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The A-Star Puzzle
- Pub Date:
- December 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921305009981
- Bibcode:
- 2004IAUS..224..923B
- Keywords:
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- Methods: numerical;
- binaries: spectroscopic