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To improve the census of the Upper Sco association (~11 Myr, ~145 pc), we have identified candidate members using parallaxes, proper motions, and color-magnitude diagrams from several wide-field imaging surveys and have obtained optical and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 K. L. Luhman , K. A. Herrmann , E. E. Mamajek , T. L. Esplin , M. J. Pecaut

We present projected rotational velocities for 20 early-type (B8-A9) and 74 late-type (F2-M8) members of the ~5 Myr old Upper Scorpius OB Association derived from high dispersion optical spectra obtained with the High Resolution Echelle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. E. Dahm , Catherine L. Slesnick , R. J. White

Scorpius-Centaurus is the nearest OB association and its hundreds of members were divided into sub-groups, including Lower Centaurus Crux. Here we study the dynamics of the Lower Centaurus Crux area stellar content. We report the revelation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Bertrand Goldman , Siegfried Roeser , Elena Schilbach , Attila C. Moór , Thomas Henning

The frequency of multiple systems and their properties are key constraints of stellar formation and evolution. Formation mechanisms of very low-mass (VLM) objects are still under considerable debate and an accurate assessment of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 M. C. Galvez-Ortiz , E. Solano , N. Lodieu , M. Aberasturi

Stellar obliquity serves as a key diagnostic for tracing the dynamical evolution of bound systems-from giant planets and brown dwarfs to stellar binaries-revealing whether these diverse populations share analogous histories. Here, we report…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Tianjun Gan , Alexandrine L'Heureux , Étienne Artigau , Charles Cadieux , René Doyon , Neil J. Cook , Shude Mao

To improve the statistics of hierarchical multiplicity, secondary components of wide nearby binaries with solar-type primaries were surveyed at the SOAR telescope for evaluating the frequency of subsystems. Images of 17 faint secondaries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrei Tokovinin

We report a single-lined white dwarf-main sequence binary system, LAMOST J172900.17+652952.8, which is discovered by LAMOST's medium resolution time-domain surveys. The radial velocity semi-amplitude and orbital period of the optical…

We report two binary systems, LAMOST J035540+381550 (hereafter J035540) and LAMOST J035916+400732 (hereafter J035916), identified through the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) low-resolution survey (LRS).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Senyu Qi , Wei-Min Gu , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Tuan Yi , Jin-Zhong Liu , Ling-Lin Zheng

We present the discovery of a 0.2" companion to the young M dwarf GJ 3629 as part of our high contrast adaptive optics imaging search for giant planets around low-mass stars with the Keck-II and Subaru telescopes. Two epochs of imaging…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Brendan P. Bowler , Michael C. Liu , Evgenya L. Shkolnik , Motohide Tamura

We study X-ray emission from young stars by analyzing deep XMM-Newton observations of two regions of the Upper Scorpius association, having an age of 5 Myr. Based on near infrared and optical photometry we identify 22 Upper Scorpius…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Argiroffi , F. Favata , E. Flaccomio , A. Maggio , G. Micela , G. Peres , S. Sciortino

In this paper we present the results of the SPHERE observation of the HD 284149 system, aimed at a more detailed characterisation of both the primary and its brown dwarf companion. We observed HD 284149 in the near-infrared with SPHERE,…

We present a detailed examination of the brown dwarf multiples 2MASS J08503593+1057156 and 2MASS J17281150+3948593, both suspected of harboring components that straddle the L dwarf/T dwarf transition. Resolved photometry from Hubble Space…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Adam J. Burgasser , Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi , John E. Gizis

We report the discovery of an L-type companion to the young M3.5V star 2MASS J01225093-2439505 at a projected separation of 1.45" (~52 AU) as part of our adaptive optics imaging search for extrasolar giant planets around young low-mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Brendan P. Bowler , Michael C. Liu , Evgenya L. Shkolnik , Trent J. Dupuy

We report the discovery and characterization of a wide binary population in the ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Bo\"{o}tes I using deep JWST/NIRCam imaging. Our sample consists of 52 candidate binaries with projected separations of 7,000 - 16,000…

We present high-resolution spectroscopy of two nearby white dwarfs with inconsistent spectroscopic and parallax distances. The first one, PG 1632+177, is a 13th magnitude white dwarf only 25.6 pc away. Previous spectroscopic observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Mukremin Kilic , A. Bedard , P. Bergeron

Binary stars can inflate the observed velocity dispersion of stars in dark matter dominated systems such as ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs). However, the population of binaries in UFDs is poorly constrained by observations, with preferred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Joshua D. Simon , Abraham Loeb

Moderate-resolution, near-infrared spectra between 0.8 and 5.2 microns were obtained for 12 late-type (K0-M3) disk-bearing members of the ~5 Myr old Upper Scorpius OB association using SpeX on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. For most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. E. Dahm

Binary stars make up a significant portion of all stellar systems. Consequently, an understanding of the bulk properties of binary stars is necessary for a full picture of star formation. Binary surveys indicate that both multiplicity…

The time evolution of the dependence of the mass accretion rate with the stellar mass and the disk mass represents a fundamental way to understand the evolution of protoplanetary disks and the formation of planets. In this work, we present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 V. Almendros-Abad , C. F. Manara , L. Testi , A. Natta , R. A. B. Claes , K. Muzic , E. Sanchis , J. M. Alcalá , A. Bayo , A. Scholz

The recent gravitational wave measurements have demonstrated the existence of stellar mass black hole binaries. It is essential for our understanding of massive star evolution to identify the contribution of binary evolution to the…

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