Parallactic motion for companion discovery: An M-dwarf orbiting alcor

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 709, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 733-740

  Zimmerman, Neil ^a,b   Oppenheimer, Ben R ^a,b   Hinkley, Sasha ^c   Brenner, Douglas ^b   Parry, Ian R ^d   Sivaramakrishnan, Anand ^b,e,f   Hillenbrand, Lynne ^c   Beichman, Charles ^c,g   Crepp, Justin R ^c   Vasisht, Gautam ^g   Roberts, Lewis C ^g   Burruss, Rick ^g   King, David L ^d   Soummer, Rémi ^h   Dekany, Richard ^c   Shao, Michael ^g   Bouchez, Antonin ^c   Roberts, Jennifer E ^g   Hunt, Stephanie ^d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NSF Center for Adaptive Optics   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h STScI   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Brown dwarfs; Instrumentation: miscellaneous; Stars: individual (Alcor); Stars: low mass; Techniques: miscellaneous

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949102648     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/709/2/733     Document Type: Article

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