Astrometric monitoring of ultracool dwarf binaries Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Dupuy T.J.
  2. Liu M.C.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the full results of our decade-long astrometric monitoring programs targeting 31 ultracool binaries with component spectral types M7-T5. Joint analysis of resolved imaging from Keck Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope and unresolved astrometry from CFHT/WIRCam yields parallactic distances for all systems, robust orbit determinations for 23 systems, and photocenter orbits for 19 systems. As a result, we measure 38 precise individual masses spanning 30-115M_Jup_. We determine a model-independent substellar boundary that is ~70M_Jup_ in mass (~L4 in spectral type), and we validate Baraffe et al. evolutionary model predictions for the lithium-depletion boundary (60M_Jup_ at field ages). Assuming each binary is coeval, we test models of the substellar mass-luminosity relation and find that in the L/T transition, only the Saumon & Marley (2008ApJ...689.1327S) "hybrid" models accounting for cloud clearing match our data. We derive a precise, mass-calibrated spectral type-effective temperature relation covering 1100-2800K. Our masses enable a novel direct determination of the age distribution of field brown dwarfs spanning L4-T5 and 30-70M_Jup_. We determine a median age of 1.3Gyr, and our population synthesis modeling indicates our sample is consistent with a constant star formation history modulated by dynamical heating in the Galactic disk. We discover two triple-brown-dwarf systems, the first with directly measured masses and eccentricities. We examine the eccentricity distribution, carefully considering biases and completeness, and find that low-eccentricity orbits are significantly more common among ultracool binaries than solar-type binaries, possibly indicating the early influence of long-lived dissipative gas disks. Overall, this work represents a major advance in the empirical view of very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs.

Keywords
  1. multiple-stars
  2. stellar-spectral-types
  3. hst-photometry
  4. infrared-photometry
  5. late-type-stars
  6. stellar-masses
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017ApJS..231...15D
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/231/15
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22310015

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History

2017-10-10T07:17:25Z
Resource record created
2017-10-10T07:17:25Z
Created
2017-11-14T14:56:28Z
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