The TRENDS High-Contrast Imaging Survey. VII. Discovery of a Nearby Sirius-like White Dwarf System (HD 169889)
Justin R. Crepp, Erica J. Gonzales, Brendan P. Bowler, Farisa Morales, Jordan Stone, Eckhart Spalding, Amali Vaz, Philip Hinz, Steve Ertel, Andrew Howard, Howard Isaacson
Monitoring the long-term radial velocity (RV) and acceleration of nearby stars has proven an effective method for directly detecting binary and substellar companions. Some fraction of nearby RV trend systems are expected to be comprised of compact objects that likewise induce a systemic Doppler signal. In this paper, we report the discovery of a white dwarf companion found to orbit the nearby ($π= 28.297 \pm 0.066$ mas) G9 V star HD 169889. High-contrast imaging observations using NIRC2 at Keck and LMIRCam at the LBT uncover the ($ΔH = 9.76 \pm 0.16$, $ΔL' = 9.60 \pm 0.03$) companion at an angular separation of 0.8'' (28 au). Thirteen years of precise Doppler observations reveal a steep linear acceleration in RV time series and place a dynamical constraint on the companion mass of $M \geq 0.369 \pm 0.010 M_{\odot}$. This "Sirius-like" system adds to the census of white dwarf companions suspected to be missing in the solar neighborhood.
Galactic astronomy with AO: Nearby star clusters and moving groups
本文讨论了双子座南星上用自适应光学(AO)系统记录的银河星团和附近运动星群天体的观测结果。这些观测包括用GeMS系统对疏散星团和球状星团的观测,以及用NICI获得的对移动群成员天狼星的高Strehl L'观测。后一种数据未能揭示天狼星A周围18 x 18弧秒^[2]区域内存在质量超过0.02太阳质量的褐矮星伴星。还提出了在大型望远镜上对附近星团和星团进行AO研究的潜在未来方向。
A New Sirius-like System at Only 21 Parsecs: An Elusive White Dwarf Companion to the Nearby K-dwarf HD 38230
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy(马克斯·普朗克天文学研究所);Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan(密歇根大学天文学系);Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara(加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校物理系);Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University(约翰斯·霍普金斯大学物理与天文系);SUPA, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh(爱丁堡大学天文学研究所(SUPA));Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of California Santa Cruz(加州大学圣克鲁兹分校天文学与天体物理学系)
SPYGLASS. VII-A. The Demographics and Ages of Small Nearby Young Associations
University of Toronto(多伦多大学);University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校);California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院);Chalmers University of Technology(查尔姆斯理工大学);University of Virginia(弗吉尼亚大学);Vanderbilt University(范德堡大学)
Diameters and Temperatures VII: High-angular resolution measurements of Solar-type stars with the CHARA Array
Louisiana State University(路易斯安那州立大学);Lowell Observatory(洛厄尔天文台);Georgia State University(佐治亚州立大学);University of Sydney(悉尼大学);University of Hawaii(夏威夷大学);Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学);University of Rochester(罗切斯特大学)
Optimized trajectories to the nearest stars using lightweight high-velocity photon sails
各种研究小组正在考虑新的星际旅行方式,假设轻型宇宙飞船通过激光或太阳辐射加速到光速的一个重要部分(c)。我们最近表明,引力辅助可以与恒星光子压力相结合,使来自地球的光帆减速,并将其抛向恒星周围或使其静止。在这里,我们证明了,当恒星被用作缓冲器(即帆通过“前面”的恒星),而不是作为弹射器(即帆通过“后面”或“周围”的恒星)时,光引力辅助更有效。这增加了$α$ Cen A和B处的最大减速度,并将标称石墨烯级帆(质量-表面比8.6 e-4 g m $^{-2}$)的旅行时间从95年减少到75年。到达时最大可能的速度降低取决于从$α$ Cen A到B所需的偏转角,因此也取决于双星的轨道相位。在这里,我们计算了未来300年从地球到Proxima周围的束缚轨道的最小旅行时间的变化,然后将我们的计算扩展到大约300年内的大约22,000颗恒星。虽然$α$岑是最近的恒星系统,我们发现,天狼星A提供了最短的旅行时间到一个约束轨道:69年假设12.5% c可以从太阳系出发。天狼星A因此提供了飞越探索的机会,加上在相对较短的星际旅行后减速进入同伴白矮星的束缚轨道。