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In our ongoing deep infrared imaging search for faint wide secondaries of planet-candidate host stars we have confirmed astrometrically the companionship of a low-mass object to be co-moving with HD89744, a companion-candidate suggested…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Mugrauer , R. Neuhäuser , T. Mazeh , E. Guenther , M. Fernández

Using astrometric measurements obtained with the FORS2/VLT camera, we are searching for low-mass companions around 20 nearby ultracool dwarfs. With a single-measurement precision of 0.1 milli-arcseconds, our survey is sensitive to a wide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-29 J. Sahlmann , P. F. Lazorenko , D. Segransan , E. L. Martin , M. Mayor , D. Queloz , S. Udry

We report the discovery, from WASP and CORALIE, of a transiting exoplanet in a 1.54-d orbit. The host star, WASP-36, is a magnitude V = 12.7, metal-poor G2 dwarf (Teff = 5959 \pm 134 K), with [Fe/H] = -0.26 \pm 0.10. We determine the planet…

We present the discovery of a brown dwarf or possible planet at a projected separation of 1.9" = 29 AU around the star GJ 758, placing it between the separations at which substellar companions are expected to form by core accretion (~5 AU)…

We present the discovery of an L0 companion to the nearby M1.5 dwarf G 239-25, at a projected distance of 31 AU. It is the faintest companion discovered so far in our adaptive optics survey of all known M dwarfs within 12 pc, and it lies at…

We present the methods and first results of a survey of nearby high proper motion main sequence stars to probe for cool companions with the Gemini camera at Lick Observatory. This survey uses a sample of old (age > 2 Gyr) stars as targets…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Adam Schneider , Carl Melis , Inseok Song , Ben Zuckerman

Since November 2002, we have conducted the largest deep imaging survey of the young, nearby associations of the southern hemisphere. Our goal is detection and characterization of substellar companions at intermediate (10--500 AU) physical…

PG 2131+066 is a composite-spectrum binary with a hot pulsating PG 1159-type pre-white dwarf and an early M-type main sequence star. Analysis of Whole Earth Telescope observations of the pulsating pre-white dwarf component provided an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Reed , Steven D. Kawaler , M. Sean O'Brien

We collected F606W- and F814W-band time-series data of the Sagittarius low-reddening window in the Galactic bulge with the Advanced Camera far Surveys mounted on the Hubble Space Telescope. We sampled the region approximately every two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 A. Calamida , K. Sahu , J. Anderson , S. Casertano , T. Brown , S. Cassisi , J. Sokol , H. Bond , H. Ferguson , M. Livio , M. Salaris , J. Valenti

We present FUSE H Lyman series spectroscopy of the hot white dwarf companion to the 4th magnitude A1III star Beta Crateris, which shows that is has an unusually low mass, 0.43Msun, and has almost certainly evolved through binary…

We report on the discovery of the companion star to the millisecond pulsar PSR J1835-3259B in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6652. Taking advantage of deep photometric archival observations acquired through the Hubble Space Telescope in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 J. Chen , M. Cadelano , C. Pallanca , F. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni , A. Istrate , M. Burgay , P. Freire , T. Gautam , A. Possenti , A. Ridolfi

Ultra-cool white dwarfs are among the oldest stellar remnants in the Universe. Their efficient gravitational settling and low effective temperatures are responsible for the smooth spectra they exhibit. For that reason, it is not possible to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 M. C. Lam , N. C. Hambly , N. Lodieu , S. Blouin , E. J. Harvey , R. J. Smith , M. C. Galvez-Ortiz , Z. H. Zhang

Low-mass white dwarfs (LMWDs) are believed to be exclusive products of binary evolution, as the Universe is not yet old enough to produce them from single stars. Because of the strong tidal forces operating during the binary interaction…

We report the discovery of a companion to the high proper motion star LHS 1589, a nearby high-velocity, low-mass subdwarf. The companion (LHS 1589B) is located 0.224+/-0.004" to the southwest of the primary (LHS 1589A), and is 0.5 magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sebastien Lepine , R. Michael Rich , Michael M. Shara , Kelle L. Cruz , Andrew Skemer

Gl 758 B is a late-T dwarf orbiting a metal-rich Sun-like star at a projected separation of $\rho$ $\approx$ 1.6" (25 AU). We present four epochs of astrometry of this system with NIRC2 at Keck Observatory spanning 2010 to 2017 together…

Context: The influence of stellar multiplicity on planet formation is not yet well determined. Most planets are found using indirect detection methods via the small radial velocity or photometric variations of the primary star. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Jeremy Dietrich , Christian Ginski

We report the discovery, in an Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) short wavelength spectrum, of an unresolved hot white dwarf companion to the 5th-magnitude B5Vp star HR2875. This is the first time that a non-interacting white dwarf$+$ B…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matt Burleigh , Martin Barstow

Mass transfer in an interacting binary will often strip the mass donor of its entire envelope and spin up the mass gainer to near critical rotation. The nearby B-type star Regulus represents a binary in the post-mass transfer stage: it is a…