Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Jun 2007
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Proceedings of the conference In the Spirit of Bernard Lyot: The Direct Detection of Planets and Circumstellar Disks in the 21s
Physics
Optics
Scientific paper
Gamma Cep is known as a single-lined spectroscopic triple system at a distance of 13.8 pc, composed of a K1 III-IV primary star with V= 3.2 mag, a stellar-mass companion in a 66-67 year orbit (Torres 2007) and a sub-stellar companion with mass times sin(i) = 1.7 Jupiter masses, that is most likely a planet (Hatzes et al. 2003). We used the Adaptive Optics camera CIAO at the Japanese 8m telescope Subaru on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, with the semi-transparent coronograph to block most of the light from the primary to be able to image Gamma Cep B directly. We could clearly detect Gamma Cep B and used a photometric standard to determine the magnitude of B after PSF subtraction of K = 7.3 +- 0.2 mag. With the data the orbit of the two stars could be refined and thus we were able to determine the dynamical masses of these two stars in the Gamma Cep system, namely 1.40 +- 0.12 solar masses for the primary and 0.409 +-0.018 solar masses for the secondary (consistent with a M4 dwarf) as well as a new minimum mass of the sub-stellar companion of mass times sin(i) = 1.60 +- 0.13 Jupiter masses.
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