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Two-colour photometry for 9473 components of close Hipparcos double and multiple stars
Using observations obtained with the Tycho instrument of the ESAHipparcos satellite, a two-colour photometry is produced for componentsof more than 7 000 Hipparcos double and multiple stars with angularseparations 0.1 to 2.5 arcsec. We publish 9473 components of 5173systems with separations above 0.3 arcsec. The majority of them did nothave Tycho photometry in the Hipparcos catalogue. The magnitudes arederived in the Tycho B_T and V_T passbands, similar to the Johnsonpassbands. Photometrically resolved components of the binaries withstatistically significant trigonometric parallaxes can be put on an HRdiagram, the majority of them for the first time. Based on observationsmade with the ESA Hipparcos satellite.
| Soft X-ray observations of the VELA pulsar PSR 0833-45
X-ray maps produced from Exosat observations of the Vela pulsar in the0.03-2.4 keV range confirm the components discussed by Harnden et al.(1985). Restricting the central source to a neutron star with an 8-15 kmradium emitting blackbody-like radiation suggests a surface temperaturein the 600,000 to 1,000,000 K. It is found that the observedblackbody-like luminosity may be generated by reheating via vortex creepin the crust of the neutron star. A search for pulsations at the radioperiod produced a pulsed fraction upper limit of less than 15 percent ofthe point-like component. The possible association of the Vela pulsarand a B9V star is considered.
| The VELA star cloud. II - Early-type stars and long-period Cepheids near the VELA pulsar
Intermediate band, H-beta and RI observations of some 200 stars andthree Cepheids in a small region centered on the Vela pulsar have shownthe presence of additional members of the Vela sheet (450 pc), as wellas two more distant associations, Vel OB1 (800 pc) and Vel OB2 (1800pc). Vel OB2, which may be only some 5-million yr old, probably containsSW (23.4 d), RZ (20.4 d), and SX (19.6 d) Vel. All three Cepheids havean overabundance of metals, relative to the sun, if the photometricindices are abundance dependent only. The luminosities of the threeCepheids, plus AH Vel in the Vela sheet and two other southern Cepheidsdiscussed previously, all based on an independent photometric luminositycalibration, do not indicate a need for a major revision of the zeropoint of the period-luminosity relation.
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| Constellation: | Vela |
| Right ascension: | 08h35m07.41s |
| Declination: | -45°13'44.6" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 9.425 |
| Distance: | 561.798 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -5 |
| Proper motion Dec: | 9 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.428 |
| V-T magnitude: | 9.426 |
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