LP 714-37: A wide pair of ultracool dwarfs actually is a triple

Details LP 714-37: A wide pair of ultracool dwarfs actually is a triple LP 714-37: A wide pair of ultracool dwarfs actually is a triple

2006-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605364v2

Astrophys.J. 645 (2006) L153-L156

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/506384

LP 714-37 was identified by Phan-Bao et al. (2005) as one of the very few wide pairs of very low mass (VLM) stars known to date, with a separation of 33 AU. Here we present adaptive optics imaging which resolves the secondary of the wide pair into a tighter binary, with a projected angular separation of 0.36 arcsec, or 7 AU. The estimated spectral types of LP 714-37B and LP 714-37C are M8.0 and M8.5. We discuss the implications of this finding for brown dwarf formation scenarios.

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