Lost Chevalier Pairs - A Followup

Abstract

Erno Berko (2011) recently undertook the commendable effort of investigating a large number of doubles which had been discoverered by Chevalier (1908) but never confirmed. While checking over Berko's work in the course of entering his corrections into the WDS 1 , some patterns began to emerge in these corrections; this prompted an analysis of Chevalier's paper. A number of errors were found in that early work, including one significant error which explained the reason for most of these 'lost' doubles. Other double star papers by Chevalier were then analyzed for similar errors.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA568591

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