Re-processing the Hipparcos Transit Data and Intermediate Astrometric Data of spectroscopic binaries. I. Ba, CH and Tc-poor S stars

Details Re-processing the Hipparcos Transit Data and Intermediate Astrometric Data of spectroscopic binaries. I. Ba, CH and Tc-poor S stars Re-processing the Hipparcos Transit Data and Intermediate Astrometric Data of spectroscopic binaries. I. Ba, CH and Tc-poor S stars

2000-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0006175v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

22 pages, 17 Encapsulated PostScript figures. PostScript and PDF versions also available at http://www-astro.ulb.ac.be/Html/ps

Scientific paper

10.1051/aas:2000346

The Intermediate Astrometric Data (IAD) and Transit Data (TD) made available by ESA after the Hipparcos mission make it possible to re-process the observations of any Hipparcos entry. This paper illustrates how TD and IAD may be used in conjunction with the orbital parameters of spectroscopic binaries to improve the astrometric parameters of binaries considered as single stars in the original reduction process. That approach has been applied to 81 dwarf barium stars, strong and mild barium stars, CH stars, and Tc-poor S stars for which spectroscopic orbits became available recently. Among these 81 systems, 23 yield reliable astrometric orbits, thus making it possible to evaluate on real data the impact of an unrecognized orbital motion on the proper motion (Wielen, 1997, A&A 325, 367). Comparison of the proper motion from the Hipparcos catalogue with that re-derived in the present work indicates that the former are indeed far off the present value for binaries with periods in the range 3 to about 8 years. Hipparcos parallaxes of unrecognized spectroscopic binaries turn out to be reliable, except for systems with periods close to 1 year, as expected. Finally, we show that, even when a complete orbital revolution was observed by Hipparcos, the inclination is unfortunately seldom precise.

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