Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...207.6807l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #68.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1267
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We report preliminary results from a search for substellar companions to all stars within the NStars Database: a catalogue of all stars known to be within 25 pc by virture of having a well-established trigonometric parallax. Our survey uses the 2MASS, GSC, and USNOB point source catalogs to color- and magnitude-select a list of all candidate companions within a projected separation of 20,000 AU. Visual inspection is used to eliminate non-stellar sources whenever possible. Common proper motion, when available from multi-epoch survey data, is also used to test for multiple system membership. The end product of this survey will be upper limits for the presence of wide companions, together with a minimized candidate list for follow-up confirmation of possible substellar companions. This work is supported by NSF grant AST-0453611 and promises to yield a milestone in the comprehensive survey of wide binary companions below the hydrogen-burning mass limit.
Brammeier P.
Case April
Keller Julien
Koerner David William
Labrier D.
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