Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-07-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Conf. proceedings "From darkness to light" Cargese April 2000 Editors: T. Montmerle & Ph. Andre, ASP Conf. Series
Scientific paper
We report first results from our ground-based infrared imaging search for sub-stellar companions (brown dwarfs and giant planets) of young (up to 100 Myrs) nearby (up to 75 pc) stars, where companions should be well separated from the central stars and still relatively bright due to ongoing accretion and/or contraction. Among our targets are all members of the TW Hya association, as well as other binary and single young stars either discovered recently among ROSAT sources (some of which as yet unpublished) or known before. Our observations are performed mainly with SOFI and SHARP at the ESO 3.5m NTT on La Silla and with ISAAC at the ESO 8.2m Antu (VLT-UT1) on Cerro Paranal, all in the H- and K-bands. We present direct imaging data and H-band spectroscopy of a faint object detected next to TWA-7 which, if at the same age and distance as the central star, could be an object with only a few Jupiter masses. Our spectrum shows, though, that it is a background K-dwarf.
Alves J. J.
Brandner Wolfgang
Comeron Fernando
Cuby Jean Gabriel
Eckart Andreas
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