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High spatial resolution optical imaging of the multiple T Tauri system LkH{\alpha} 262/LkH{\alpha} 263

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2016-05-10 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

We report high spatial resolution i' band imaging of the multiple T Tauri system LkHα\alpha 262/LkHα\alpha 263 obtained during the first commissioning period of the Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager (AOLI) at the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope, using its Lucky Imaging mode. AOLI images have provided photometry for each of the two components LkHα\alpha 263 A and B (0.41 arcsec separation) and marginal evidence for an unresolved binary or a disc in LkHα\alpha 262. The AOLI data combined with previously available and newly obtained optical and infrared imaging show that the three components of LkHα\alpha 263 are co-moving, that there is orbital motion in the AB pair, and, remarkably, that LkHα\alpha 262-263 is a common proper motion system with less than 1 mas/yr relative motion. We argue that this is a likely five-component gravitationally bounded system. According to BT-settl models the mass of each of the five components is close to 0.4 M_{\odot} and the age is in the range 1-2 Myr. The presence of discs in some of the components offers an interesting opportunity to investigate the formation and evolution of discs in the early stages of multiple very low-mass systems. In particular, we provide tentative evidence that the disc in 263C could be coplanar with the orbit of 263AB.

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@article{arxiv.1605.01431,
  title  = {High spatial resolution optical imaging of the multiple T Tauri system LkH{\alpha} 262/LkH{\alpha} 263},
  author = {S. Velasco and R. Rebolo and A. Oscoz and C. Mackay and L. Labadie and A. Pérez Garrido and J. Crass and A. Díaz-Sánchez and B. Femenía and V. González-Escalera and D. L. King and R. L. López and M. Puga and L. F. Rodríguez-Ramos and J. Zuther},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01431},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures, Accepted 2016 May 4