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We present the results of a survey for stellar and substellar companions to 82 young stars in the nearby OB association Upper Scorpius. This survey used nonredundant aperture-mask interferometry to achieve typical contrast limits of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam L. Kraus , Michael J. Ireland , Frantz Martinache , James P. Lloyd

Since 2019, the direct imaging B-star Exoplanet Abundance Study (BEAST) at SPHERE@VLT has been scanning the surroundings of young B-type stars in order to ascertain the ultimate frontiers of giant planet formation. Recently, the…

Located at ~2pc, the L7.5+T0.5 dwarfs system WISE J104915.57-531906.1 (Luhman16AB) is the third closest system known to Earth, making it a key benchmark for detailed investigation of brown dwarf atmospheric properties, thermal evolution,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 L. R. Bedin , D. Pourbaix , D. Apai , A. J. Burgasser , E. Buenzli , H. M. J. Boffin , M. Libralato

Chauvin et al. 2005 imaged a co-moving companion at ~260 AU from the young star AB Pic A. Evolutionary models predictions based on J H K photometry of AB Pic b suggested a mass of ~13 - 14 MJup, placing the object at the deuterium-burning…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Bonnefoy , G. Chauvin , P. Rojo , F. Allard , A. -M. Lagrange , D. Homeier , C. Dumas , J. -L. Beuzit

We present a spectroscopic investigation of the Be+sdO binary system HR 2142 that is based upon large sets of ultraviolet observations from the International Ultraviolet Explorer and ground-based H-alpha observations. We measured radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Geraldine J. Peters , Luqian Wang , Douglas R. Gies , Erika D. Grundstrom

We have observed a large sample of spectroscopic binary stars in the Hyades Cluster, using high resolution infrared spectroscopy to detect low mass companions. We combine our double-lined infrared measurements with well constrained orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. F. Bender , M. Simon

We present the results of a high-resolution spectral differential imaging survey of 12 nearby, relatively young field L dwarfs (<1 Gyr) carried out with HST/NICMOS to search for planetary mass companions at small physical separations from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. B. Stumpf , W. Brandner , V. Joergens , Th. Henning , H. Bouy , R. Köhler , M. Kasper

We present a 3-5um LBT/MMT adaptive optics imaging study of three Upper Scorpius stars with brown dwarf (BD) companions with very low-masses/mass ratios (M_BD < 25M_Jup; M_BD / M_star ~ 1-2%), and wide separations (300-700 AU): GSC 06214,…

We report the direct detection of a fully convective, early-to-mid M-dwarf companion orbiting the star HD 86006, using ESO-SPHERE during Science Verification as part of the SAFARI program. HARPS+CORALIE radial velocity measurements first…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 B. M. Pantoja , J. S. Jenkins , J. H. Girard , A. Vigan , G. S. Salter , M. I. Jones

Young giant planets and brown dwarf companions emit near-infrared radiation that can be linearly polarized up to several percent. This polarization can reveal the presence of a circumsubstellar accretion disk, rotation-induced oblateness of…

We present the discovery of SDSS J042348.57-041403.5 as a closely-separated (0"16) brown dwarf binary, resolved by the Hubble Space Telescope Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. Physical association is deduced from the…

In the course of an imaging survey we have detected a visual companion to the intermediate-mass star HR 6037. In this letter, we present two epoch observations of the binary with NACO/VLT, and near-IR spectroscopy of the secondary with…

We present comprehensive orbital analyses and dynamical masses for the substellar companions Gl~229~B, Gl~758~B, HD~13724~B, HD~19467~B, HD~33632~Ab, and HD~72946~B. Our dynamical fits incorporate radial velocities, relative astrometry, and…

In recent decades, thousands of substellar companions have been discovered with both indirect and direct methods of detection. In this paper, we focus our attention on substellar companions detected with the direct imaging technique, with…

Even though only a handful of sub-stellar companions have been found via direct imaging, each of these discoveries has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the star formation process and the physics of cool atmospheres. Young…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Mariangela Bonavita , Sebastian Daemgen , Silvano Desidera , Ray Jayawardhana , Markus Janson , David Lafreniere

Context. HD72946 is a bright and nearby solar-type star hosting a low-mass companion at long period (P~16 yr) detected with the radial velocities (RV) method. The companion has a minimum mass of 60.4+/-2.2 MJ and might be a brown dwarf. Its…

We aim to revisit the system AB Pic which has a known companion at the exoplanet/ brown-dwarf boundary. We based this study on a rich set of observations to investigate the companion's orbit and atmosphere. We composed a spectrum of AB Pic…

Low-mass and brown dwarfs have recently been found as wide companions to many nearby stars, formerly believed to be single. Wide binaries are usually found as common proper motion pairs. Sometimes, more than two objects share the same large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 R. -D. Scholz , N. Lodieu , R. Ibata , O. Bienaymé , M. Irwin , M. J. McCaughrean , A. Schwope

We report the discovery of T dwarf companions to the nearby stars HN Peg (G0V, 18.4 pc, ~0.3 Gyr) and HD 3651 (K0V, 11.1 pc, ~7 Gyr). During an ongoing survey of 5'x5' fields surrounding stars in the solar neighborhood with IRAC aboard the…