2015 IAU-GA Double Star Splinter Meeting

Business Session

• Commission 26 Business, Splinter Agenda, etc. (Brian Mason)
• Commission G1 Business (Andrej Prša)

Scientific Session

• History of Commission 42 (Virginia Trimble)
• The Final Kepler EB Catalog (Andrej Prša)
• The Visual Double Star Catalogs (Brian Mason)
• Coordinate System Issues in Binary Star Computations (George Kaplan)
• Direct Distance Estimation Applied to Eclipsing Binaries in Star Clusters: Case Study of DS And in NGC 752 (Eugene Milone)
• Θ¹ Ori B: a quintuple (sextuple?) system less than 30,000 years old (Christine Allen)
• Two bright eclipsing binaries in the Orion Trapezium (BM and V1016 Ori) (Rafael Costero)
• Advances in spectroscopy and implications for stellar research (David Soderblom)
• Binary Stars and the CHARA Array (Theo ten Brummelaar)
  supplementary documents:
  • V1334 Cyg
  • Beta Lyrae movie
  • CHARA Lab movie
• The 9th catalogue of orbits of spectroscopic binaries (Dimitri Pourbaix)
• Gaia non single stars (Dimitri Pourbaix)
• Double Star work being done with the DCT, the NPOI and/or the end of Commission 54 (Gerard van Belle)

Photos from Splinter Session

Photos from Commission 26 Dinner