Sparse Aperture Masking of Massive Stars

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2011-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/1109.6654v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

To appear in Four Decades of Research on Massive Stars, ASP Conf. Ser. # pages, 2 figures

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We present the earliest results of our NACO/VLT sparse aperture masking (SAM) campaign to search for binarity in a sample of 60 O-type stars. We detect Delta Ks < 5 mag companions for 20-25% of our targets with separations in the range 30-100 mas (typically, 40 - 200 A.U.). Most of these companions were unknown, shedding thus new light on the multiplicity properties of massive stars in a separation and brightness regime that has been difficult to explore so far. Adding detections from other techniques (spectroscopy, interferometry, speckle, lucky imaging, AO), the fraction of O stars with at least one companion is 85% (51/60 targets). This is the largest multiplicity fraction ever found.

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