scholarly journals orvara: An Efficient Code to Fit Orbits Using Radial Velocity, Absolute, and/or Relative Astrometry

2021 ◽  
Vol 162 (5) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Timothy D. Brandt ◽  
Trent J. Dupuy ◽  
Yiting Li ◽  
G. Mirek Brandt ◽  
Yunlin Zeng ◽  
...  
1965 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 109-111
Author(s):  
Frederick R. West

There are certain visual double stars which, when close to a node of their relative orbit, should have enough radial velocity difference (10-20 km/s) that the spectra of the two component stars will appear resolved on high-dispersion spectrograms (5 Å/mm or less) obtainable by use of modern coudé and solar spectrographs on bright stars. Both star images are then recorded simultaneously on the spectrograph slit, so that two stellar components will appear on each spectrogram.


1976 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 613-622
Author(s):  
I.A. Aslanov ◽  
Yu.S. Rustamov

SummaryMeasurements of the radial velocities and magnetic field strength of β CrB were carried out. It is shown that there is a variability with the rotation period different for various elements. The curve of the magnetic field variation measured from lines of 5 different elements: FeI, CrI, CrII, TiII, ScII and CaI has a complex shape specific for each element. This may be due to the presence of magnetic spots on the stellar surface. A comparison with the radial velocity curves suggests the presence of a least 4 spots of Ti and Cr coinciding with magnetic spots. A change of the magnetic field with optical depth is shown. The curve of the Heffvariation with the rotation period is given. A possibility of secular variations of the magnetic field is shown.


2015 ◽  
Vol 71-72 ◽  
pp. 127-128
Author(s):  
B.J. Hrivnak ◽  
W. Lu ◽  
G. Van de Steene ◽  
H. Van Winckel ◽  
J. Sperauskas ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
J. R. Barnes ◽  
C. A. Haswell

AbstractAriel’s ambitious goal to survey a quarter of known exoplanets will transform our knowledge of planetary atmospheres. Masses measured directly with the radial velocity technique are essential for well determined planetary bulk properties. Radial velocity masses will provide important checks of masses derived from atmospheric fits or alternatively can be treated as a fixed input parameter to reduce possible degeneracies in atmospheric retrievals. We quantify the impact of stellar activity on planet mass recovery for the Ariel mission sample using Sun-like spot models scaled for active stars combined with other noise sources. Planets with necessarily well-determined ephemerides will be selected for characterisation with Ariel. With this prior requirement, we simulate the derived planet mass precision as a function of the number of observations for a prospective sample of Ariel targets. We find that quadrature sampling can significantly reduce the time commitment required for follow-up RVs, and is most effective when the planetary RV signature is larger than the RV noise. For a typical radial velocity instrument operating on a 4 m class telescope and achieving 1 m s−1 precision, between ~17% and ~ 37% of the time commitment is spent on the 7% of planets with mass Mp < 10 M⊕. In many low activity cases, the time required is limited by asteroseismic and photon noise. For low mass or faint systems, we can recover masses with the same precision up to ~3 times more quickly with an instrumental precision of ~10 cm s−1.


2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S276) ◽  
pp. 527-529
Author(s):  
Xavier Dumusque ◽  
Nuno C. Santos ◽  
Stéphane Udry ◽  
Cristophe Lovis ◽  
Xavier Bonfils

AbstractSpectrographs like HARPS can now reach a sub-ms−1 precision in radial-velocity (RV) (Pepe & Lovis 2008). At this level of accuracy, we start to be confronted with stellar noise produced by 3 different physical phenomena: oscillations, granulation phenomena (granulation, meso- and super-granulation) and activity. On solar type stars, these 3 types of perturbation can induce ms−1 RV variation, but on different time scales: 3 to 15 minutes for oscillations, 15 minutes to 1.5 days for granulation phenomena and 10 to 50 days for activity. The high precision observational strategy used on HARPS, 1 measure per night of 15 minutes, on 10 consecutive days each month, is optimized, due to a long exposure time, to average out the noise coming from oscillations (Dumusque et al. 2011a) but not to reduce the noise coming from granulation and activity (Dumusque et al. 2011a and Dumusque et al. 2011b). The smallest planets found with this strategy (Mayor et al. 2009) seems to be at the limit of the actual observational strategy and not at the limit of the instrumental precision. To be able to find Earth mass planets in the habitable zone of solar-type stars (200 days for a K0 dwarf), new observational strategies, averaging out simultaneously all type of stellar noise, are required.


1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 564-564
Author(s):  
D. Dravins ◽  
L. Lindegren ◽  
S. Madsen ◽  
J. Holmberg

Abstract Space astrometry now permits accurate determinations of stellar radial motion, without using spectroscopy. Although the feasibility of deducing astrometric radial velocities from geometric projection effects was realized already by Schlesinger (1917), only with Hipparcos has it become practical. Such a program has now been carried out for the moving clusters of Ursa Major, Hyades, and Coma Berenices. Realized inaccuracies reach about 300 m/s (Dravins et al. 1997). Discrepancies between astrometric and spectroscopic radial velocities reveal effects (other than stellar motion) that affect wavelength positions of spectral lines. Such are caused by stellar surface convection, and by gravitational redshifts. A parallel program (Gullberg & Dravins 1997) is analyzing high-precision spectroscopic radial velocities for different spectral lines in these stars, using the ELODIE radial-velocity instrument atHaute-Provence.


1983 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 133-134
Author(s):  
Frank N. Bash

Bash and Peters (1976) suggested that giant molecular clouds (GMC's) can be viewed as ballistic particles launched from the two-armed spiral-shock (TASS) wave with orbits influenced only by the overall galactic gravitational potential perturbed by the spiral gravitational potential in the arms. For GMC's in the Milky Way, the model predicts that the radial velocity observed from the Sun increases with age (time since launch). We showed that the terminal velocity of CO observed from l ≃ 30° to l ≃ 60° can be understood if all GMC's are born in the spiral pattern given by Yuan (1969) and live 30 × 106 yrs. Older GMC's were predicted to have radial velocities which exceed observed terminal velocities.


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