Wide companions of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Allen P.R.
  2. Koerner D.W.
  3. McElwain M.W.
  4. Cruz K.L.
  5. Reid I.N.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the results of a deep-imaging search for wide companions to low-mass stars and brown dwarfs using NSFCam on the Infrared Telescope Facility. We searched a sample of 132 M7-L8 dwarfs to magnitude limits of J~20.5 and K~18.5, corresponding to secondary-to-primary mass ratios of ~0.5. No companions were found with separations between 2" and 31" (~40 to ~1000AU). This null result implies a wide companion frequency below 2.3% at the 95% confidence level within the sensitivity limits of the survey. Preliminary modeling efforts indicate that we could have detected 85% of companions more massive than 0.05M_{sun}_ and 50% above 0.03M_{sun}_.

Keywords
  1. Multiple stars
  2. Dwarf stars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2007AJ....133..971A
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/133/971
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51330971

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History

2009-11-17T10:07:09Z
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2009-11-17T10:07:09Z
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