The GSH Binary Survey

This new imaging survey uses available time slots during photometric monitoring campaigns, caused by non-photometric weather conditions, which often exhibit a good atmospheric seeing. The goal of the project is to obtain current relative astrometric measurements of binary systems, that are listed in the Washington Visual Double Star Catalog.

In this paper we characterize the target sample of the survey, describe the imaging observations, the astrometric measurements including the astrometric calibration, and present relative astrometric measures of all binaries, which could be obtained in the course of the survey, so far.