The southern double stars of James Dunlop II: Modern identification of the first dedicated published catalogue of southern double stars

Roderick Letchford, Graeme White, Allan Ernest

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Abstract

The first dedicated catalogue of southern double stars was published in 1829 by
James Dunlop. Basing our work solely on the published data, we present modern designations of the doubles listed by Dunlop in the Appendix. We find that of the 253 listed; 168 have discoverer codes in the WDS under "DUN"; 31 are listed under another discoverer code; 27 remain unidentified; 11 are single stars; 8 are double stars not in the WDS and 8 are multiple systems.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)361-377
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of Double Star Observations
Volume15
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 01 Jul 2019

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