Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 Observations of the Brown Dwarf Gliese 229B: Optical Colors and Orbital Motion

Details Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 Observations of the Brown Dwarf Gliese 229B: Optical Colors and Orbital Motion Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 Observations of the Brown Dwarf Gliese 229B: Optical Colors and Orbital Motion

Jun 1998

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The Astronomical Journal, Volume 115, Issue 6, pp. 2579-2586.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Stars: Binaries: Close, Stars: Individual: Name: Gliese 229B, Stars: Low-Mass, Brown Dwarfs

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Three-epoch observations of the M1 V-plus-brown dwarf system Gliese 229AB using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) are reported. Relative astrometric measurements spanning 1 year confirm the common proper motion of the pair and reveal the first evidence of orbital motion. The radial and azimuthal components of Gl 229B's relative motion are -0.087" and +0.049", respectively, indicating an elliptical orbit rather than an inclined circular orbit. The absolute WFPC2 magnitudes of Gl 229B are M_1042 = 16.37, M_814 = 20.76, and M_675 = 24.60, assuming a distance of 5.774 pc. The detection of Gl 229B through the F675W bandpass is the first reported at R-band wavelengths. The measured flux through F1042M (lambda_c ~ 1 μm) is well matched by the latest models of dust-free brown dwarf photospheres by Tsuji et al. These models severely overestimate the broadband fluxes shortward of 0.8 mum, however, which indicates that a strong source of optical continuum opacity exists in the photosphere of Gl 229B. A search for fainter companions to Gl 229A in the Planetary Camera was negative to limiting absolute magnitudes of M_1042 ~ 19 and M_814 ~ 24.5 beyond 7" of Gl 229A. Nondetection limits for the Wide Field Cameras are 1.5 mag greater than those for the Planetary Camera.

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