Is Sirius a triple star?

DOI

Sirius has been discovered as double more than 130 years ago. From the beginning of our century up to now, observational as well as physical and dynamical indications lead to the hypothesis of the existence of a third body in the system. In this paper, we present recent orbital analysis of the binary Sirius A-B which, helped by numerical simulation of triple systems, strengthens the idea for the triplicity of Sirius: a tiny star could revolve in about 6 years around Sirius A. Finally, we discuss the possibility of direct detection for this suspected Sirius C.

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.32990621
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/299/621
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Related Identifier https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/299/621
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Provenance
Creator BENEST D.; DUVENT J.L.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 1997
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysical Processes; Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Physics