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