Five new very low mass binaries
Abstract
We report the discovery of companions to 5 nearby late M dwarfs (>M5), LHS1901, LHS4009, LHS6167, LP869-26 and WT460, and we confirm that the recently discovered mid-T brown dwarf companion to SCR1845-6357 is physically bound to that star. These discoveries result from our adaptive optics survey of all M dwarfs within 12 pc. The new companions have spectral types M5 to L1, and orbital separations between 1 and 10 AU. They add significantly to the number of late M dwarfs binaries in the immediate solar neighbourhood, and will improve the multiplicity statistics of late M dwarfs. The expected periods range from 3 to 130 years. Several pairs thus have good potential for accurate mass determination in this poorly sampled mass range.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609059,
title = {Five new very low mass binaries},
author = {G. Montagnier and D. Segransan and J. -L. Beuzit and T. Forveille and P. Delorme and X. Delfosse and C. Perrier and S. Udry and M. Mayor and G. Chauvin and A. -M. Lagrange and D. Mouillet and T. Fusco and P. Gigan and E. Stadler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609059},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics