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Dr. Evgenya Shkolnik
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Dr. Evgenya Shkolnik Astronomer, Lowell Observatory
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I discovered that system in a survey for young stars. I've been working on looking for young, low-mass stars in order to do direct imaging of planets so we could find young, hot planets that are still emitting their own light. We wanted to find the young, low-mass stars for this other planet-hunting technique. In that survey, I had to look at each individual star, look at their ages, making sure they weren't binaries because half of all stars are binaries.
What was interesting in the spectrum of the star was you could see the light from four different stars. In what appeared to be one dot on the sky, the spectrum revealed four different stars moving at four different velocities, and so you could see the lines shifting in time based on their movement in their orbits. And it's quite a quirky system, I have to admit.
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