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Application of the Telluric-Line Technique to Study Late-Type Stars for Radial-Velocity Variations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Although the use of telluric lines as wavelength fiducials to measure radial velocities does not achieve as high a precision as other fiducial-imposition techniques, this very convenient technique can be used concurrently with other observing programs to increase the temporal sampling of target stars. We have been carrying out a program to monitor the line-profile variations of early-type non-radial pulsators at the Hα and He I 667.8-nm region. With the rather modest reciprocal dispersion of 1nm/mm and the use of a 4096-element CCD, the telluric lines in the 630-nm region are also available in the observed spectra. We decided to use these telluric lines as wavelength fiducials to monitor bright, latetype stars for radial-velocity variations. As an experiment, we have also decided to reduce the spectra using available simple IRAF tasks to see how high a velocity precision can be achieved with only minor tweaking. The precision certainly would not rival other precise techniques, but the convenience in both the observing and reduction procedure may enable more target stars to be monitored by more observers. Moreover, interesting results can still be obtained with a mere 100 m/s precision. The result for a few late-type stars which also have prior HF velocities will be presented.
- Type
- Part 2. Fundamental Concepts and Techniques
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 170: Precise Stellar Radial Velocities , 1999 , pp. 48 - 51
- Copyright
- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999