The Double Star Library

Recent Updates:

IAU Commission 26: Binary and Multiple Stars

(Etoiles Doubles et Multiples)

• Commission Membership and Officers

  
  

• Commission Reports

  • Information from older Triennial Reports
  • Triennial Report for 2002 - 2005: pdf
  • 2005 Triennial Report for Circulars: html , pdf
  • Report of July 2003 business meeting at Sydney General Assembly: html, postscript
  • Triennial Report for 1999 - 2002: pdf
  • Report of August 2000 business meeting at Manchester GA: html , postscript (Inf. Circ. #142)
  
  

• Information Circulars

  • Introduction and older circulars
  • Circular No. 174 (Jun 2011) : html , postscript , pdf
  • Circular No. 175 (Oct 2011) : html , postscript , pdf
  • Circular No. 176 (Feb 2012) : html , postscript , pdf
  
  

• IAU Division IV (Stars) Links:

  • IAU Division IV : main division webpage
  • IAU Commission 29 : Stellar Spectra
  • IAU Commission 35 : Stellar Constitution
  • IAU Commission 36 : Theory of Stellar Atmospheres
  • IAU Commission 45 : Stellar Classification
  
  

• Other IAU Links:

  • International Astronomical Union : main IAU webpage
  • IAU Commission 8 : Astrometry
  • IAU Commission 27 : Variable Stars
  • IAU Commission 30 : Radial Velocities
  • IAU Commission 42 : Close Binary Stars
  
  

• Announcement regarding upcoming Commission 26 elections

Meeting Announcements

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• 220th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
  10-14 June 2012, Anchorage, AK, USA
  web: http://aas.org/meetings/aas220
• 17th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun
  24-29 June 2012, Barcelona, Spain
  contact: Mercedes Lopez-Morales, mlopez[at]ieec.uab.es
  web: http://www.coolstars17.net
• 11th Hvar Astrophysical Colloquium: The Most Mysterious Binaries: Significance for Astrophysics
  2-6 July 2012, Hvar, Croatia
  contact: Domagoj Ruzdjak, rdomagoj[at]geof.hr
  web: http://www.geof.unizg.ht/oh/meetings/
• International Astronomical Union General Assembly
  20-31 August 2012, Beijing, China
  web: http://www.astronomy2012.org/dct/page/1
• Maui International Double Star Conference
  8-10 February 2013, Pukalani, Maui, Hawaii
  contact: Russ Genet, russmgenet[at]aol.com
  web: http://www.AltAzInitiative.org

 

 

Information on Past Meetings


 

• IAU Symposium 240 proceedings are now available !
  Proceedings of the August 2006 Prague symposium, Binary Stars as Critical Tools and Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics have been published by Cambridge University Press. The printed volume includes 59 talks, 2 posters, and 115 poster abstracts, while the publisher's website includes 103 posters. The Table of Contents for these proceedings is available in pdf form here. For more information please see the publisher's website at http://www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_IAU.
  
  
• IAU Symposium 248 (sponsored by Commission 8 and supported by Commission 26) held on October 15-23 2007 in Shanghai, China was a very important event for astrometry in 2008. A short summary of this meeting was written by Alexandre Andrei and can be found here.
  
  
• Complete presentations of II International Meeting of Double Star Observers (Pro-Am), held 23-24 October 2010 in Sabadell (Barcelona, Spain) are available here.
  
  
  

Bibliographies of recent binary star papers



• 2009
• 2010
• 2011




Binary and Multiple Star Catalogues




Astrometric Systems

• Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS)
  (see also "Neglected Doubles" Observing Lists)
• Fourth Catalog of Interferometric Measurements of Binary Stars
  
• Sixth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binary Stars
  (see also list of "Calibration Candidates")
• Catalogue of Orbits and Ephemerides of Visual Double Stars 
  (Docobo, Ling, Prieto, Costa, Costado & Magdalena 2001)
  The catalog is also available in Galego and Castellano.
• USNO Third Photometric Magnitude Difference Catalog
  
• Catalog of Rectilinear Elements
  



Combined Analyses

• Washington Multiplicity Catalog




Spectroscopic Systems

• Ninth Catalogue of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits
  (Pourbaix et al. 2002; updated frequently)
• Fifteenth Complementary Catalog of Spectroscopic Binaries
  (Pedoussaut, A. et al. 1988, A&AS 75, 441; also Malkov, O.Y. 1989, Bull. Inform. CDS 36)
  on-line data query
  



Close (Interacting and Eclipsing) Systems

• A Catalogue and Atlas of Cataclysmic Variables - Living Edition
  (Downes, R. et al. 2001, PASP 113, 764)
• Catalogue of Cataclysmic Binaries, Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries and Related Objects (6th ed.)
  (Ritter, H. & Kolb, U. 1998, A&AS 129, 83)
• A Finding List for Observers of Interacting Binary Systems (5th ed.)
  (Wood, F.B. et al. 1980, Pub. Dept of Astron., Univ of Florida, vol 1)
  on-line data query
  
• Catalog of Orbital Elements, Masses, and Luminosities of Close Double Stars
  (Svechnikov, M.A. & Bessonova, L.A. 1984, Bull. Inform CDS 26, 99)
  on-line data query
  
• A Catalogue of Parameters for Eclipsing Binaries
  (Brancewicz, H.K. & Dworak, T.Z. 1980, Acta Astron. 30, no. 4, pp 501-524)
  on-line data query
  
• A Catalogue of Classical (Evolved) Algol-Type Binary Candidate Stars
  (Budding, E. 1984, Bull. Inform. CDS 27, 91)
  on-line data query
  
• Catalogue of Algol Type Binary Stars
  (Budding, E. et al. 2004, A&A 417, 263-268)
  on-line data query
  




Links:

• CDS: Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg
• Hipparcos
• SIMBAD Astronomical Database
• SIDONIe: the double star website of Nice Observatory
• ADS: NASA's Astrophysical Data System bibliographic database
• CHARA: GSU's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy
• OLBIN: Optical Long Baseline Interferometry Newsletter
• NEXSci: NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (formerly Michelson Science Center): 
  talks from the 2009 Sagan/Michelson Fellows Symposium
• The General Catalogue of Photometric Data
  
• The Journal of Double Star Observations:
  a quarterly journal of amateur astronomy dedicated to the study of double and binary stars
• The Webb Deep-Sky Society (Double Star Section):
  an amateur/professional society specializing in double stars and 'deep sky' objects.
  (There is also a direct link to the Webb Society Circulars.)
• Astronomical Society of Southern Africa (Double Star Section):
  another fine society for amateur double star observers
• The "Spirit of 33":
  an international network of amateur double star observers, based in Spain
• The Double Star Section of LIADA":
  the Spanish American League of Astronomy
• The Double Star Club of the Astronomical League":
  an association of local amateur astronomical societies across the United States
• The Double Star Commission of the French Astronomical Society":
  an amateur/professional double star group whose members publish in the SAF journal Observations et Travaux
• Garraf Astronomical Observatory:
  Located near Barcelona, Spain and headed by Tofol Tobal, this organization has published over 10,000 visual double star observations in its OAG General Catalog
• "El Observador de Estrellas Dobles":
  a Spanish language electronic double star journal begun in 2009
• "Il Bollettino delle Stelle Doppie"
  a new Italian language electronic double star journal begun in April 2012


• A Belorussian translation of this page is available, courtesy of Bohdan Zograf.
• A German translation of this site is available, courtesy of Andreas Beraz.
• [NEW] A Romanian translation of this site is also available, courtesy of Alexander Ovsov.




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