SMaSH+: observations and companion detection Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Sana H.
  2. Le Bouquin J.-B.
  3. Lacour S.
  4. Berger J.-P.
  5. Duvert G.
  6. Gauchet L.,Norris B.
  7. Olofsson J.
  8. Pickel D.
  9. Zins G.
  10. Absil O.
  11. de Koter A.,Kratter K.
  12. Schnurr O.
  13. Zinnecker H.
  14. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Multiplicity is one of the most fundamental observable properties of massive O-type stars and offers a promising way to discriminate between massive star formation theories. Nevertheless, companions at separations between 1 and 100 milliarcsec (mas) remain mostly unknown due to intrinsic observational limitations. At a typical distance of 2kpc, this corresponds to projected physical separations of 2-200AU. The Southern MAssive Stars at High angular resolution survey (SMaSH+) was designed to fill this gap by providing the first systematic interferometric survey of Galactic massive stars. We observed 117 O-type stars with VLTI/PIONIER and 162 O-type stars with NACO/Sparse Aperture Masking (SAM), probing the separation ranges 1-45 and 30-250mas and brightness contrasts of {Delta}H<4 and {Delta}H<5, respectively. Taking advantage of NACO's field of view, we further uniformly searched for visual companions in an 8" radius down to {Delta}H=8. This paper describes observations and data analysis, reports the discovery of almost 200 new companions in the separation range from 1mas to 8" and presents a catalog of detections, including the first resolved measurements of over a dozen known long-period spectroscopic binaries. Excluding known runaway stars for which no companions are detected, 96 objects in our main sample ({delta}<0{deg}; H<7.5) were observed both with PIONIER and NACO/SAM. The fraction of these stars with at least one resolved companion within 200mas is 0.53. Accounting for known but unresolved spectroscopic or eclipsing companions, the multiplicity fraction at separation {rho}<8" increases to f_m_=0.91+/-0.03. The nine non-thermal radio emitters observed by SMaSH+ are all resolved, including the newly discovered pairs HD 168112 and CPD-47{deg}2963.

Keywords
  1. multiple-stars
  2. o-stars
  3. surveys
  4. infrared-photometry
  5. interferometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2014ApJS..215...15S
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/215/15
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/215/15
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22150015

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History

2015-01-21T12:53:22Z
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2015-01-21T12:53:22Z
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