Star C (protruding yellow spot at upper right) was confirmed as Gl 105 A's
fainter companion with Palomar's 60» telescope (more).
Not exact matches
Imaging reveals a slightly
fainter companion to KELT - 22A that is likely bound,
with a projected separation of 6 \ arcsec ($ \ sim $ 1400 AU).
The primary stars around which we searched for
companions come from a list of bright stars
with well - measured parallaxes and large proper motions from the Hipparcos catalog (8583 stars, mostly A-K ~ dwarfs) and
fainter stars from other proper motion catalogues (79170 stars, mostly M ~ dwarfs).
As a highly evolved and relatively cool orange - red giant, single star, Pollux is not much like its «twin» star Castor, which is actually composed of three sets of binary stars (as many as four bluish - white, main sequence stars
with two
fainter companions).
There was also some deep sense within him that had sensed that there was a
faint spark of life in the little dog combined
with some mysterious instinct to return his
companion to him that had told him what to do.