Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-12-17
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.368:1917-1924,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 11 figures, accepted by MNRAS (minor changes, spectral type constraints tightened)
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10265.x
We survey a sample of 32 M5-M8 stars with distance < 40pc for companions with separations between 0.1 arcsec and 1.5 arcsec and with Delta m_i <5. We find five new VLM binaries with separations between 0.15 arcsec and 1.1 arcsec, including a candidate brown dwarf companion. The raw binary fraction is 16% +8/-4% and the distance bias corrected fraction is 7% +7/-3%, for companions within the surveyed range. No systems with contrast ratio Delta m_i>1 were found, even though our survey is sensitive to up to Delta m=5 (well into the brown dwarf regime). The distribution of orbital radii is in broad agreement with previous results, with most systems at 1-5AU, but one detected binary is very wide at 46.8+/-5.0AU. We also serendipitously imaged for the first time a companion to Ross 530, a metal-poor single-lined spectroscopic binary. We used the new Lucky Imaging system LuckyCam on the 2.5m Nordic Optical Telescope to complete the 32 very low mass star i' and z' survey in only 5 hours of telescope time.
Hodgkin Simon T.
Law Nicholas M.
Mackay Craig D.
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