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Low-mass companions to nine stars

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2025-09-29 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

We present an independent spectroscopic and radial velocity analysis for nine stars from the Pennsylvania-Toru\'n Planet Search. For BD+24 4697, we present an updated true companion's mass (0.16±\pm0.02 \, M_{\odot}), as well as evidence of stellar activity. For BD+54 1640 and BD+65 1241 we present true masses of companions, m=0.15±0.04Mm = 0.15 \pm 0.04\,M_\odot and m=0.091±0.005Mm = 0.091 \pm 0.005\,M_\odot, respectively. For BD+63 974 and BD+69 935 we find low mass companions with msini=0.046±0.001Mm \sin i = 0.046 \pm 0.001\,M_\odot and msini=0.090±0.005Mm \sin i = 0.090 \pm 0.005\,M_\odot. For BD+52 1281, BD+54 1382, TYC 2704-2680-1, and TYC 3525-02043-1 we present evidence of low-mass companions with msinim \sin i of 0.115 ±0.006M\pm 0.006\,M_\odot, 0.083 ±0.007M\pm 0.007\,M_\odot, 0.279 ±0.009M\pm 0.009\,M_\odot, and 0.064±0.006M0.064 \pm 0.006\,M_\odot, respectively. Consequently, BD+54 1382, BD+63 974, BD+65 1241, BD+69 935 and TYC 3525-02043-1 appear to be Brown Dwarf host candidates.

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@article{arxiv.2509.22127,
  title  = {Low-mass companions to nine stars},
  author = {Andrzej Niedzielski and Robert Jaros and Divyansh Srivastava and Monika Adamów and Aleksander Wolszczan and Eva Villaver and Gracjan Maciejewski and Beata Deka-Szymankiewicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.22127},
  year   = {2025}
}