J/PAZh/45/35        Orbits of 451 wide visual double stars      (Izmailov, 2019)

Orbits of 451 wide visual double stars. Izmailov I.S. <Pis'ma Astron. Zh. 45, 35 (2019)> =2019PAZh...45...35I 2019PAZh...45...35I (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Stars, double and multiple ; Binaries, orbits Keywords: visual double stars - orbits Abstract: Based on positional observations, we have determined the orbits of 130 visual double stars for the first time and improved the orbits of 321 stars. The histogram of eccentricities for all of the derived orbits corresponds to the relation f=2e. The period distribution has two pronounced maxima at P∼200 and 550yr. The ephemeris relative positions and their errors have been calculated for the next three years. Description: We present orbit 451 wide visual double stars obtained by the method of Thiele-Innes. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 319 451 Orbital elements, solution without weights table2.dat 319 422 Orbital elements, solution with weights table3.dat 166 87844 Sets of possible orbits, solution without weights table4.dat 166 81520 Sets of possible orbits, solution with weights table5.dat 119 451 Orbital ephemerides, solution without weights table6.dat 119 422 Orbital ephemerides, solution with weights -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: B/wds : The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog (Mason+ 2001-2014) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat table2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 10 A10 --- WDS WDS identifier (Cat. B/wds) 12- 18 A7 --- Disc Discoverer & Number 19- 23 A5 --- Comp Components 24- 33 F10.4 yr P Period 35- 43 F9.4 yr e_P Formal error in P 45- 52 F8.5 arcsec a Semi-major axis (a) 54- 61 F8.5 arcsec e_a Error in a 63- 69 F7.3 deg i Inclination (i) 71- 76 F6.3 deg e_i Error in i 78- 84 F7.3 deg Omega Node (Omega) 85 A1 --- idntf [*] An identified ascending node is indicated by * (Cat. B/wds) 87- 93 F7.3 deg e_Omega Error in Omega 95-103 F9.4 yr T The time of periastron passage (T) in fractional Besselian year 105-113 F9.4 yr e_T Error in T 115-121 F7.5 --- e Eccentricity (e) 123-129 F7.5 --- e_e Error in e 131-137 F7.3 deg omega Longitude of periastron (omega) 139-145 F7.3 deg e_omega Error in omega 147-150 I4 yr DL Date of the last observation used in the orbit calculation 152-158 F7.5 arcsec sd Standard deviation of observations for this orbit 160-166 F7.5 arcsec osd Standard deviation for the previous orbit 168-175 A8 --- Ref The previous orbit reference (1) 177-185 F9.4 yr t0 Epoch of the apparent motion parameters 187-194 F8.5 arcsec rho0 Angular separation for t0 from orbit 196-202 F7.5 arcsec e_rho0 Error in angular separation 204-211 F8.4 deg theta0 Position angle for t0 from orbit 213-220 F8.4 deg e_theta0 Error in position angle 222-230 F9.6 arcsec/yr pmrho Proper Motion (angular separation) for t0 from orbit 232-239 F8.6 arcsec/yr e_pmrho Error in proper motion pmrho 241-251 F11.5 deg/yr pmtheta Proper Motion (position angle) for t0 from orbit 253-261 F9.5 deg/yr e_pmtheta Error in proper motion pmtheta 263-269 F7.4 arcsec r Radius of curvature 271-277 F7.4 arcsec e_r Error in radius of curvature 279-284 F6.4 arcsec/yr dVR Difference between radial velocities for t0 from orbit 286-291 F6.4 arcsec/yr e_dVR Error in difference 293-305 F13.11 Msun.arcsec+3 M Sum of mass of stars in mass of Sun multiplied by parallax3 306-319 F14.11 Msun.arcsec+3 e_M Error in mass -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): See http://ad.usno.navy.mil/wds/orb6/wdsref.txt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat table4.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 10 A10 --- WDS WDS identifier (Cat. B/wds) 12- 18 A7 --- Disc Discoverer & Number 20- 24 A5 --- Comp Components 26- 34 F9.4 yr P Period 35- 43 F9.5 arcsec a Semi-major axis (a) 45- 51 F7.3 deg i Inclination (i) 53- 59 F7.3 deg Omega Node (Omega) 61- 70 F10.4 yr T The time of periastron passage (T) in fractional Besselian year 72- 78 F7.5 --- e Eccentricity (e) 80- 86 F7.3 deg omega Longitude of periastron (omega) 88- 96 F9.4 yr t0 epoch of the apparent motion parameters 98-105 F8.5 arcsec rho0 Angular separation for t0 from orbit 107-114 F8.4 deg theta0 Position angle for t0 from orbit 116-124 F9.6 arcsec/yr pmrho Proper Motion (angular separation) for t0 from orbit 128-137 F10.5 deg/yr pmtheta Proper Motion (position angle) for t0 from orbit 139-145 F7.4 arcsec r Radius of curvature 147-152 F6.4 arcsec/yr dVR Difference between radial velocities for t0 from orbit 154-166 F13.11 Msun.arcsec+3 M Sum of mass of stars multiplied by parallax3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5.dat table6.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 10 A10 --- WDS WDS identifier (Cat. B/wds) 12- 18 A7 --- Disc Discoverer & Number 20- 24 A5 --- Comp Components 26- 32 F7.4 arcsec rho19 Angular separation for 2019.0 34- 39 F6.4 arcsec e_rho19 Error in angular separation 41- 47 F7.3 deg theta19 Position angle for 2019.0 49- 55 F7.3 deg e_theta19 Error in position angle 57- 64 F8.4 arcsec rho20 Angular separation for 2020.0 66- 71 F6.4 arcsec e_rho20 Error in angular separation 73- 79 F7.3 deg theta20 Position angle for 2020.0 81- 87 F7.3 deg e_theta20 Error in position angle 89- 96 F8.4 arcsec rho21 Angular separation for 2021.0 98-103 F6.4 arcsec e_rho21 Error in angular separation 105-111 F7.3 deg theta21 Position angle for 2021.0 113-119 F7.3 deg e_theta21 Error in position angle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From Igor Izmailov, i_izmailov(at)mail.ru Acknowledgements: This study was performed using of the Washington visual double star catalog (WDS; Mason et al. 2018) compiled at the US Naval Observatory. I am deeply grateful to its compilers and to all observers of visual double stars worldwide whose work yields significant scientific results.
(End) Igor Izmailov [Pulkovo Obs.], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 19-Dec-2018
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