Discovery of Nine New Companions to Nearby Young M Stars with the Altair AO System
| ISSN: | 1538-4357 0004-637X |
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| DOI: | 10.1086/509109 |
| Přístupová URL adresa: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::b05fc8a71862229c7d1438a1e70f73bc https://doi.org/10.1086/509109 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| Přírůstkové číslo: | edsair.doi...........b05fc8a71862229c7d1438a1e70f73bc |
| Autor: | Sebastian Daemgen, Laird M. Close, I. Neill Reid, Nick Siegler |
| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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| Zdroj: | The Astrophysical Journal. 654:558-569 |
| ISSN: | 1538-4357 0004-637X |
| DOI: | 10.1086/509109 |
| Popis: | We present results of a high-resolution, near-infrared survey of 41 nearby, young ( = M6 very low-mass, VLM) populations. We find that the separation distribution of the binaries in this sample peaks at 13+14-9 AU, which is consistent with previous measurements of early-M binaries. Hence, early-M binaries seem to occur in--on average--tighter systems than G binaries. At the same time they are significantly wider than field VLM binary stars. The distribution of mass ratios q of primary and secondary stars was found to show an intermediate distribution between the strongly q-->1 peaked distribution of field VLM systems and the almost flat distribution of earlier-type stars. Consequently, we show evidence for relatively young, early-M binaries representing a transition between the well known earlier star distributions and the recently examined field VLM population characteristics. Despite the fact that this survey was dedicated to the search for faint brown dwarf and planetary mass companions, all planetary mass candidates were background objects. We exclude the existence of physical companions with masses greater than 10 Jupiter masses (M_Jup) at separations of >~40 AU and masses greater than 24 M_Jup for separations >~10 AU around 37 of the 41 observed objects. |
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