The Solar Neighborhood XLIV: RECONS Discoveries Within 10 Parsecs
The Astronomical Journal, 155:265 (23pp), 2018 June https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aac262 © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. The Solar Neighborhood XLIV: RECONS Discoveries within 10 parsecs Todd J. Henry1,8, Wei-Chun Jao2,8 , Jennifer G. Winters3,8 , Sergio B. Dieterich4,8, Charlie T. Finch5,8, Philip A. Ianna1,8, Adric R. Riedel6,8 , Michele L. Silverstein2,8 , John P. Subasavage7,8 , and Eliot Halley Vrijmoet2 1 RECONS Institute, Chambersburg, PA 17201, USA; toddhenry28@gmail.com, philianna3@gmail.com 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA; jao@astro.gsu.edu, silverstein@astro.gsu.edu, vrijmoet@astro.gsu.edu 3 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; jennifer.winters@cfa.harvard.edu 4 Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC 20015, USA; sdieterich@carnegiescience.edu 5 Astrometry Department, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC 20392, USA; charlie.finch@navy.mil 6 Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; adric.riedel@gmail.com 7 United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA; jsubasavage@nofs.navy.mil Received 2018 April 12; revised 2018 April 27; accepted 2018 May 1; published 2018 June 4 Abstract We describe the 44 systems discovered to be within 10 pc of the Sun by the RECONS team, primarily via the long- term astrometry program at the CTIO/SMARTS 0.9 m that began in 1999. The systems—including 41 with red dwarf primaries, 2 white dwarfs, and 1 brown dwarf—have trigonometric parallaxes greater than 100 mas, with errors of 0.4–2.4 mas in all but one case.
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