Adaptive Optics Imaging of the Orion Trapezium Cluster

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Mar 1999

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The Astronomical Journal, Volume 117, Issue 3, pp. 1375-1386.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Stars: Binaries: Visual, Stars: Pre-Main-Sequence, Techniques: Image Processing

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We have imaged an area ~5 arcmin^2 at the center of the Trapezium cluster in Orion in the K band using the University of Hawaii (UH) adaptive optics system at the UH 2.2 m telescope. Our survey detects 292 stars brighter than K=18.2 mag and resolves pairs to the 0.23" diffraction limit of the telescope. The binary fraction in the angular separation range 0.3"-0.6", corresponding to 132-264 AU at 440 pc, is indistinguishable from that of the solar-like stars in the solar neighborhood. Proplyds are associated with both single stars and visual binaries. About half the stars in our sample have also been measured at V and I by Prosser et al.; most of these seem to be about 10^6 yr old, observed through moderate extinction, and having some excess emission at K. The luminosity function turns over before the stellar limit of ~13.5 mag, indicating that the cluster does not contain a large population of massive brown dwarfs.

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