ι Cassiopeiae: Orbit, Masses, and Photometry from Adaptive Optics Imaging in the I and H Bands

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Mar 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003apj...585.1007d&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 585, Issue 2, pp. 1007-1014.

Physics

Optics

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Stars: Binaries: Visual, Instrumentation: Adaptive Optics, Stars: Fundamental Parameters, Stars: Individual: Constellation Name: Ι Cassiopeiae, Techniques: High Anular Resolution

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The multiple-star system ι Cas was observed as a calibration for our adaptive optics observations in 2001 July with the Advanced Electro-Optical System (AEOS) 3.63 m telescope in Maui, Hawaii, and the first ever image of the faint astrometric component Aa (along with A and B) was obtained at the H-band wavelength. Another image was obtained in 2002 February with the same telescope, but that time in the I band. This wider image includes the C component and is the first to show four components. By combining our images with seven recent speckle interferometry measurements, a 47 yr period relative orbit is derived for the A-Aa components. Comparing the motion of B with respect to the A-Aa system, previous A-B orbits are rejected in favor of simple rectilinear motion of B across the field. Nevertheless, the history of the relative vector separation between B and A reveals the suborbital motion of A around its center of gravity with Aa, leading to a true orbit for A. The masses of A and Aa are thus determined to be 1.99+/-0.28 and 0.69+/-0.12 Msolar, respectively. Combining our differential photometry in the I and H bands with B and V information from the Tycho-2 catalog, we derive spectral types for all four from their colors: component A is spectral type A3 with peculiar red colors, Aa is G6, B is F5, and C is K3.
Based on observations made at the Maui Space Surveillance System operated by Detachment 15 of the US Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate.

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