Description
We perform a search for faint, common proper motion companions of Hipparcos stars using the recently published Lepine-Shara Prope-Motion-North catalog of stars with proper motion {mu}>0.15"/yr. Our survey uncovers a total of 521 systems with angular separations 3"<{Delta}{theta}<1500", with 15 triples and 1 quadruple. Our new list of wide systems with Hipparcos primaries includes 130 systems identified here for the first time, including 44 in which the secondary star has V>15.0. Our census is statistically complete for secondaries with angular separations 20"<{Delta}{theta}<300" and apparent magnitudes V<19.0. Overall, we find that at least 9.5% of nearby (d<100pc) Hipparcos stars have distant stellar companions with projected orbital separations s>1000AU.
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