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Searching for Low–Mass Companions with the HST WF/PC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

William A. Baum
William A. Baum*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

Abstract

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Owing to the spherical aberration of the Hubble Space Telescope, prospects are now poor for the astrometric detection of low–mass companions of nearby stars with the Wide–Field / Planetary Camera. The installation of a new camera (WF/PC-II) incorporating an optical correction for the telescope will only partially recover the low–mass companion search capability.

Type
HST, IUE, & Rosat Observations
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 135: Complementary Approaches to Double and Multiple Star Research , 1992 , pp. 365 - 368
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1992

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