Research of the HIP 18856 binary system

Abstract

The results of the study of the binary HIP 18856 and construction of its orbit are presented. New observational data obtained at the BTA of SAO RAS in 2007-2019. Earlier Cvetković et al. (2016 constructed orbit for this system. However, it is based on 6 measurements, which cover a small part of the orbit. The positional parameters of the Hipparcos (ESA 1997) astrometric satellite, published speckle interferometric data (Mason et al. 1999;Balega et al. 2006Balega et al. , 2007Horch et al. 2012Horch et al. , 2017 and new ones were used in this study. Based on the new orbital parameters, the mass sum was calculated, and the physical parameters of the components were found. The obtained orbital and fundamental parameters were compared with the data from the study by Cvetković et al. (2016). The comparison shows that the new orbital solution is better than the old one, since it fits new observational data accurately. Also based on the qualitative grade performed by Worley & Heintz (1983) new orbit was classified as "reliable", which means data covering more than half of the orbit with sufficient quantities of residuals of measurements.