Five new very low mass binaries

Details Five new very low mass binaries Five new very low mass binaries

2006-09-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609059v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20066120

We report the discovery of companions to 5 nearby late M dwarfs (>M5), LHS1901, LHS4009, LHS6167, LP869-26 and WT460, and we confirm that the recently discovered mid-T brown dwarf companion to SCR1845-6357 is physically bound to that star. These discoveries result from our adaptive optics survey of all M dwarfs within 12 pc. The new companions have spectral types M5 to L1, and orbital separations between 1 and 10 AU. They add significantly to the number of late M dwarfs binaries in the immediate solar neighbourhood, and will improve the multiplicity statistics of late M dwarfs. The expected periods range from 3 to 130 years. Several pairs thus have good potential for accurate mass determination in this poorly sampled mass range.

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