Double stars in astrometric catalogs

DOI

The US Naval Observatory has mined over 140 astrometric catalogs, including the Astrographic Catalogue and the Two Micron All Sky Survey, for measures of double stars. This resulted in 114,218 new measures of 47,007 different systems spanning 110 years; these are now included in the Washington Double Star catalog (WDS). This is the single largest data set ever added to the WDS. The measures are typically of wider pairs, most between 4" and 30" thus, their value in aiding orbit determination is limited. However, they have proven invaluable in the verification of systems and the determination of rectilinear motions of systems.

Cone search capability for table J/AJ/132/50/table2 (Measurement of Double Stars)

Cone search capability for table J/AJ/132/50/table5 (New WFC Doubles)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.51320050
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/50
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/132/50
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/132/50
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/50
Provenance
Creator Wycoff G.L.; Mason B.D.; Urban S.E.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2007
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
Contact CDS support team <cds-question(at)unistra.fr>
Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Physics; Stellar Astronomy