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arxiv: 1506.07517 · v1 · pith:US74QYWYnew · submitted 2015-06-24 · 🌌 astro-ph.SR

Resolving the delta Andromedae spectroscopic binary with direct imaging

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We present a direct image of the innermost companion to the red giant delta Andromedae using the Stellar Double Coronagraph at the Palomar Observatory. We use a Markov chain Monte Carlo based algorithm to simultaneously reduce the data and perform astrometry and photometry of the companion. We determine that the companion is most likely a main-sequence K-type star and is certainly not the previously hypothesized white dwarf.

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