An infrared imaging search for low-mass companions to members of the young nearby β Pic and Tucana/Horologium associations
- Autor(en)
- R. Neuhäuser, E. W. Guenther, J. Alves, N. Huélamo, Th. Ott, A. Eckart
- Abstrakt
We present deep high dynamic range infrared images of young nearby stars
in the Tucana/Horologium and β Pic associations, all ˜ 10 to
35 Myrs young and at ˜ 10 to 60 pc distance. Such young nearby
stars are well-suited for direct imaging searches for brown dwarf and
even planetary companions, because young sub-stellar objects are still
self-luminous due to contraction and accretion. We performed our
observations at the ESO 3.5m NTT with the normal infrared imaging
detector SofI and the MPE speckle camera Sharp-I. Three arc sec north of
GSC 8047-0232 in Horologium a promising brown dwarf companion candidate
is detected, which needs to be confirmed by proper motion and/or
spectroscopy. Several other faint companion candidates are already
rejected by second epoch imaging. Among 21 stars observed in
Tucana/Horologium, there are not more than one to five brown dwarf
companions outside of 75 AU (1.5'' at 50 pc); most certainly only
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Astrophysik
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, European Southern Observatory (Germany), Universität zu Köln, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- Journal
- Astronomische Nachrichten
- Band
- 324
- Seiten
- 535-542
- ISSN
- 0004-6337
- Publikationsdatum
- 11-2003
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- Schlagwörter
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/98495b9d-ef8e-4dc1-8f98-3f854c1a6d7a