Radio interferometric planet search. I. Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Bower G.C.
  2. Bolatto A.
  3. Ford E.B.
  4. Kalas P.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Radio astrometry of nearby, low-mass stars has the potential to be a powerful tool for the discovery and characterization of planetary companions. We present a Very Large Array survey of 172 active M dwarfs at distances of less than 10pc. Twenty-nine stars were detected with flux densities greater than 100uJy. We observed seven of these stars with the Very Long Baseline Array at milliarcsecond resolution in three separate epochs. With a detection threshold of 500uJy in images of sensitivity 1{sigma}~100uJy, we detected three stars three times (GJ 65B, GJ 896A, GJ 4247), one star twice (GJ 285), and one star once (GJ 803). Two stars were undetected (GJ 412B and GJ 1224). For the four stars detected in multiple epochs, residuals from the optically determined apparent motions have an root-mean-square deviation of ~0.2 milliarcseconds, consistent with statistical noise limits. Combined with previous optical astrometry, these residuals provide acceleration upper limits that allow us to exclude planetary companions more massive than 3-6M_Jup_ at a distance of ~1AU with a 99% confidence level.

Keywords
  1. m-stars
  2. radio-continuum-emission
  3. proper-motions
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. trigonometric-parallax
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2009ApJ...701.1922B
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/701/1922
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17011922

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History

2011-10-11T10:11:46Z
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2011-10-11T10:11:46Z
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2017-07-10T06:22:05Z
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