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<ri:Resource created="2012-11-19T14:25:08Z" status="active" updated="2025-05-19T09:50:00Z" version="1.2" xmlns:cs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/ConeSearch/v1.0" xmlns:ri="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/RegistryInterface/v1.0" xmlns:vr="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0" xmlns:vs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/ConeSearch/v1.0 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/ConeSearch.xsd http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VOResource.xsd http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VODataService.xsd" xsi:type="vs:CatalogService"><title>Orbital motion monitoring of A-star multiples</title><shortName>J/MNRAS/422/2765</shortName><identifier>ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/422/2765</identifier><altIdentifier>doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74222765</altIdentifier><curation><publisher ivo-id="ivo://CDS">CDS</publisher><creator><name>De Rosa R.J.</name></creator><creator><name>Patience J.</name></creator><creator><name>Vigan A.</name></creator><creator><name>Wilson P.A.</name></creator><creator><name>Schneider A.,McConnell N.J.</name></creator><creator><name>Wiktorowicz S.</name></creator><creator><name>Marois C.</name></creator><creator><name>Song I.</name></creator><creator><name>Macintosh B.,Graham J.R.</name></creator><creator><name>Bessell M.S.</name></creator><creator><name>Doyon R.</name></creator><creator><name>Lai O.</name></creator><date role="Updated">2024-07-17T20:15:43Z</date><date role="Created">2012-11-19T14:25:08Z</date><contact><name>CDS support team</name><address>CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France</address><email>cds-question@unistra.fr</email></contact></curation><content><subject>orbits</subject><subject>a-stars</subject><description>As a part of our ongoing Volume-limited A-Star (VAST) adaptive optics survey, we have obtained observations of 26 binary systems with projected separations &lt;100AU, 13 of which have sufficient historical measurements to allow for refinement of their orbital elements. For each system with an estimated orbit, the dynamical system mass obtained was compared with the system mass estimated from mass-magnitude relations. Discrepancies between the dynamical and theoretical system mass can be explained by the presence of a previously unresolved spectroscopic component, or by a non-solar metallicity of the system. Using this approach to infer the presence of additional companions, a lower limit to the fraction of binaries, triples, and quadruples can be estimated as 39%, 46%, and 15%, for systems with at least one companion within 100AU. The fraction of multiple systems with three or more components shows a relative increase compared to the fraction for Solar-type primaries resolved in previous volume-limited surveys. The observations have also revealed a pair of potentially young (&lt;100Myr) M-dwarf companions, which would make an ideal benchmark for the theoretical models during the pre-Main Sequence contraction phase for M-dwarfs. In addition to those systems with orbit fits, we report 13 systems for which further orbital monitoring observations, are required, 11 of which are newly resolved as a part of the VAST survey.</description><source format="bibcode">2012MNRAS.422.2765D</source><referenceURL>https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/422/2765</referenceURL><type>Catalog</type><contentLevel>Research</contentLevel><relationship><relationshipType>IsServedBy</relationshipType><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/TAP">TAP VizieR generic service</relatedResource></relationship><relationship><relationshipType>IsServedBy</relationshipType><relatedResource>Conesearch service</relatedResource></relationship></content><rights>https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html</rights><capability><interface xsi:type="vr:WebBrowser"><accessURL use="full">https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/422/2765</accessURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at IUCAA: Pune, India">https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/422/2765</mirrorURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at SAAO: SAAO, South Africa">http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/422/2765</mirrorURL></interface></capability><capability><interface xsi:type="vs:ParamHTTP"><accessURL use="base">https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/MNRAS/422/2765</accessURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at IUCAA: Pune, India">https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/MNRAS/422/2765</mirrorURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at SAAO: SAAO, South Africa">http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/MNRAS/422/2765</mirrorURL><queryType>GET</queryType><resultType>text/xml+votable</resultType></interface></capability><capability standardID="ivo://ivoa.net/std/TAP#aux"><interface xsi:type="vs:ParamHTTP" role="std"><accessURL use="base">https://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap</accessURL></interface></capability><capability xsi:type="cs:ConeSearch" standardID="ivo://ivoa.net/std/ConeSearch"><description>Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/422/2765/table1 (Basic properties of sample members)</description><interface xsi:type="vs:ParamHTTP" role="std"><accessURL use="base">https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/422/2765/table1?</accessURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at IUCAA: Pune, India">https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/422/2765/table1?</mirrorURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at SAAO: SAAO, South Africa">http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/422/2765/table1?</mirrorURL><queryType>GET</queryType><resultType>text/xml+votable</resultType></interface><maxSR>180.0</maxSR><maxRecords>50000</maxRecords><verbosity>true</verbosity><testQuery><ra>16.9494014</ra><dec>-41.4869267</dec><sr>0.005555555555555556</sr></testQuery></capability><coverage><spatial>6/475 3338 3678 3710 3819 6340 7205 8156 8690 10000 10486 12491 16240 16685-16686 19825 20047 23658 26406 30914 31284 35440 37700 39611 47031 48037</spatial><spectral>7.952274030004205e-20 4.067783865629509e-19</spectral><footprint ivo-id="ivo://ivoa.net/std/moc">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/MNRAS/422/2765?format=ascii</footprint></coverage><tableset><schema><name>default</name><table><name>J/MNRAS/422/2765/table1</name><description>Basic properties of sample members</description><column><name>recno</name><description>Record number assigned by the VizieR team. 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