LIADA's Double Star Section: Studies Of Visual Double Star By Amateurs

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LIADA's Double Star Section has as main goal to perform measures of relative astrometry of neglected and unconfirmed wide pairs, as well as to determine the astrophysical properties for their components and classify them, according to their nature, as phyisical, common origin, common proper motion or optical pairs. BVIJHK photometry, relative astrometry and kinematical data in addition to other astrophysical parameters, were obtained from literature to characterize the components and the stellar systems. VizieR, Simbad. Aladin and the "services abstract" tools were used from the website of Centre De Données Stellaires de Strasbourg (CDS). USNO catalogs (USNO-B1.0 and UCAC-2) in addition to ESA catalogs (Tycho-2 and HIPPARCOS) were often used. Spectral types, luminosity classes, absolute magnitudes, photometric distances were determined by using several tables, two colours and reduced proper motion diagrams. Astrophysical properties were corrected by reddening by using several maps. CCD cameras, micrometric eyepieces, photographic plates from Digitalized Sky Survey (DSS) and other surveys were used to perform our astrometric measures. According to their nature double stars are classified by using several professional criteria. Since 2001 LIADA has studied about 500 visual double stars, has discovered about 150 true binaries and several candidates to be white dwarfs, subdwarfs and nearby stars. Several orbits have been calculated. Our results were published in national and international journals such as Journal of Double Star Observations (JDSO), in Information Circulars edited by Commision 26 of IAU and our measures were included in WDS catalog. LIADA publish a circular twice a year with our results.

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