Radial Velocity Monitoring and Analysis of Gaia Astrometry of Selected Intermediate Mass Stars to Constrain Their Multiplicity Status

We present new radial velocity measurements of 13 selected intermediate mass stars (2 - 6 M${}_{\odot }$). The measurements were performed between 29 April and 6 September 2024 at the University Observatory Jena using the échelle spectrograph FLECHAS. The radial velocity of eight stars was found to be constant during our spectroscopic monitoring, namely: 17 Dra A, HD 148374, HD 169487 A, 57 Cnc, $\gamma$ And, HD 11031, $\kappa$ And, and $\lambda$ Cas. In contrast, the radial velocity of five stars showed significant variability throughout or spectroscopic observation, namely: 7 CrB A, 7 CrB B, HD 214007, $\iota$ Her, and HD 201433 A. In all these cases, Keplerian orbital solutions were fitted to the observational data and the orbital elements of these spectroscopic binary systems were determined. In addition, we searched for wide companions of our targets using the third data release from ESA’s Gaia mission, in order to determine the multiplicity status of these stars and contribute to the census of bright, nearby multiple stars.