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Determination of Visual Binary Orbits from Short–Arc Observations Using the Method of Apparent Motion Parameters1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A.A. Kisselev*
Affiliation:
The Main Astronomical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pulkovo, St. Petersburg 196140, Russia

Abstract

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The key formulae of the AMP–method for deriving the orbital elements of wide visual double stars are considered. The usual astrometrical observational data must be supplemented with the values of radius of curvature of observed arc of the binary, its trigonometric parallax and the astrophysical data: the sum of the mass of the components and their relative radial velocity. Thus, the orbital elements can be derived on the basis of short–arc observations.

Type
Classical Methods, Catalogs, & Databases
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1992

Footnotes

1

The author of this paper was unable to attend the Colloquium — eds.

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