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Orbital characterization of GJ1108A system, and comparison of dynamical mass with model-derived mass for resolved binaries

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2018-10-17 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

We report an orbital characterization of GJ1108Aab that is a low-mass binary system in pre-main-sequence phase. Via the combination of astrometry using adaptive optics and radial velocity measurements, an eccentric orbital solution of ee=0.63 is obtained, which might be induced by the Kozai-Lidov mechanism with a widely separated GJ1108B system. Combined with several observed properties, we confirm the system is indeed young. Columba is the most probable moving group, to which the GJ1108A system belongs, although its membership to the group has not been established. If the age of Columba is assumed for GJ1108A, the dynamical masses of both GJ1108Aa and GJ1108Ab (Mdynamical,GJ1108Aa=0.72±0.04MM_{\rm dynamical,GJ1108Aa}=0.72\pm0.04 M_{\odot} and Mdynamical,GJ1108Ab=0.30±0.03MM_{\rm dynamical,GJ1108Ab}=0.30\pm0.03 M_{\odot}) are more massive than what an evolutionary model predicts based on the age and luminosities. We consider the discrepancy in mass comparison can attribute to an age uncertainty; the system is likely older than stars in Columba, and effects that are not implemented in classical models such as accretion history and magnetic activity are not preferred to explain the mass discrepancy. We also discuss the performance of the evolutionary model by compiling similar low-mass objects in evolutionary state based on the literature. Consequently, it is suggested that the current model on average reproduces the mass of resolved low-mass binaries without any significant offsets.

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@article{arxiv.1808.04996,
  title  = {Orbital characterization of GJ1108A system, and comparison of dynamical mass with model-derived mass for resolved binaries},
  author = {T. Mizuki and M. Kuzuhara and K. Mede and J. E. Schlieder and M. Janson and T. D. Brandt and T. Hirano and N. Narita and J. Wisniewski and T. Yamada and B. Biller and M. Bonnefoy and J. C. Carson and M. W. McElwain and T. Matsuo and E. L. Turner and S. Mayama and E. Akiyama and T. Uyama and T. Nakagawa and T. Kudo and N. Kusakabe and J. Hashimoto and L. Abe and W. Brander and S. Egner and M. Feldt and M. Goto and C. A. Grady and O. Guyon and Y. Hayano and M. Hayashi and S. S. Hayashi and T. Henning and K. W. Hodapp and M. Ishii and M. Iye and R. Kandori and G. R. Knapp and J. Kwon and S. Miyama and J. Morino and A. Moro-Martin and T. Nishimura and T. Pyo and E. Serabyn and T. Suenaga and H. Suto and R. Suzuki and Y. H. Takahashi and M. Takami and N. Takato and H. Terada and C. Thalmann and M. Watanabe and H. Takami and T. Usuda and M. Tamura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.04996},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted in ApJ