ARENOU , Frédéric

In the processing of the Hipparcos data, relativistic effects in the propagation of light, like the aberration and the bending of light rays, were introduced at an early level in the modelling. Thanks to the accumulation of very accurate measurements of star positions at various elongations from the Sun, it was possible to assess by how much...

Context. The census of stellar and substellar companions of nearby stars is largely incomplete, in particular toward the low-mass brown dwarf and long-period exoplanets. It is, however, fundamentally important in the understanding of the stellar and planetary formation and evolution mechanisms. Nearby stars are particularly favorable targets...

A good knowledge of both accuracy and precision of the Hipparcos parallaxes is one of the keys for their future scientific use. For this purpose, the Hipparcos preliminary parallaxes, as obtained after the processing of the first 30 months of Hipparcos data, are compared to various ground-based parallax estimates, using astrometric, photometric...

Context. The multiplicity of classical Cepheids (CCs) and RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) is still imperfectly known, particularly for RRLs. Aims. In order to complement the close-in short orbital period systems presented in Paper I, our aim is to detect the wide, spatially resolved companions of the targets of our reference samples of Galactic CCs and...