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Radial-Velocity Standard Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Robert P. Stefanik
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
David W. Latham
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
Guillermo Torres
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138

Abstract

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We review the history of the IAU Radial Velocity Standard Stars and give a status report on recent efforts at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to establish an absolute velocity zero point for these stars and to improve their usefulness for intercomparing the results from different instruments and observatories.

Type
Part 9. Radial-Velocity Standards
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999

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