Analysis of the Interferometric Binary Finsen 332

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Jan 2010

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #419.18; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.279

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Two of the most challenging objects for optical interferometry in the middle of the last century were the close components (FIN 332) of the wide visual binary STF2375 (= WDS 18455+0530 = HIP 92027 = ADS 11640). Each component of the wide pair was found to have subcomponents of approximately the same magnitude, position angle and separation and, hence, were designated by the tongue in cheek monikers "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" by the great visual interferometrist William S. Finsen in 1953. They were later included in a list of "Double Stars that Vex the Observer" by W.H. van den Bos.
While speckle interferometry has reaped a rich harvest investigating the close inteferometric binaries of Finsen, the "Tweedles" have continued to both fascinate and exasperate due to both the great similarity of the close pairs as well as the inherent 180 degree ambiguity associated with interferometry.
Detailed analysis of all published observations of the system have revealed several errors which are here corrected, allowing for determination of these orbital elements which resolve the quadrant ambiguity. A unique software filter was developed which allowed subarrays from archival ICCD speckle data from 1982 to be re-reduced. Those data, combined with new and unpublished observations obtained in 2001-9 from NOAO 4m telescopes, the Mt. Wilson 100in telescope and the NOFS 61in telescope as well as high quality unresolved measures all allow for the correct orbits to be determined. Co-planarity of the multiple system is also investigated.

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