Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-10-19
Astron.J.133:889-905,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, to appear in The Astronomical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/510333
We perform a search for faint, common proper motion companions of Hipparcos stars using the recently published LSPM-north catalog of stars with proper motion mu>0.15 arcsec/yr. Our survey uncovers a total of 521 systems with angular separations 3 arcsec < Delta theta < 1500 arcsec, with 15 triples and 1 quadruple. Our new list of wide systems with Hipparcos primaries includes 130 systems identified here for the first time, including 44 in which the secondary star has V>15.0. Our census is statistically complete for secondaries with angular separations 20 arcsec < Delta theta < 300 arcsec and apparent magnitudes V<19.0. Overall, we find that at least 9.5 % of nearby (d<100 pc) Hipparcos stars have distant stellar companions with projected orbital separations s > 1,000 AU. We observe that the distribution in orbital separations is consistent with Opik's law f(s) ds ~ s^{-1} ds only up to separation s \approx 3,000 AU, beyond which it follows a more steeply decreasing power law f(s) ds ~ s^{-l} ds with l=1.6+/-0.1. We also find that the luminosity function of the secondaries is significantly different from that of the single stars field population, showing a relative deficiency in low-luminosity (8
Bongiorno Bethany
Lepine Sebastien
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