The Sirius System and Its Astrophysical Puzzles: Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-based Astrometry

The Sirius System and Its Astrophysical Puzzles: Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-based Astrometry

Sirius, the seventh-nearest stellar system, is a visual binary containing the metallic-line A1. V star Sirius. A, the brightest star in the sky, orbited in a 50.13. year period by Sirius B, the brightest and nearest white dwarf (WD). Using images obtained over nearly two decades with the Hubble Spac...

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Main Authors: Bond, Howard E., Schaefer, Gail H., Gilliland, Ronald L., Holberg, Jay B., Mason, Brian D., Lindenblad, Irving W., Seitz-McLeese, Miranda, Arnett, W. David, Demarque, Pierre, Spada, Federico, Young, Patrick A., Barstow, Martin A., Burleigh, Matthew R., Gudehus, Donald
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab
Language:en
Published: IOP PUBLISHING LTD 2017
Subjects:
astrometry
binaries: visual
stars: fundamental parameters
stars: individual (Sirius)
white dwarfs
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624059
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