Browsing by Subject "binary stars"
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(2014-12-30)Department: PhysicsIn the era of large-scale surveys for exoplanets, it is important to be aware of the pernicious false positives that can contaminate survey samples. In this dissertation, it is shown that all radial velocity surveys for ...
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(2012-03-31)Department: PhysicsI identified and used a large catalog of ultra-wide binaries to investigate observationally two related questions in low-mass star astrophysics: (1) What is the frequency and distribution of ultra-wide binary systems, and ...