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Infrared Spectroscopy of Multiple Star Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Kenneth H. Hinkle
Affiliation:
Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ 85719
Stephen T. Ridgway
Affiliation:
Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ 85719
Francis C. Fekel
Affiliation:
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812, USA

Abstract

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Up to this time infrared spectroscopy has been only occasionally used in binary star research due to both the insensitivity of infrared spectrographs and the difficulty of getting observing time on a limited number of spectrographs. However, infrared spectroscopy has a number of interesting applications in binary star research. We present an example of an application to the long-period symbiotic system CH Cyg. Due to the recent development of infrared arrays, infrared spectroscopy (1) is becoming available at a much larger number of telescopes and (2) in the 1.0-2.5 μm region is capable of going to limiting magnitudes nearly as faint as those reached by CCD’s.

Type
Spectroscopic Studies
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1992

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