THE SOLAR NEIGHBORHOOD. XXX. FOMALHAUT C
THE SOLAR NEIGHBORHOOD. XXX. FOMALHAUT C
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发表时间:
2013
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通讯作者:
J. Bean
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作者:
E. Mamajek;Jennifer Lynn Bartlett;A. Seifahrt;T. Henry;S. Dieterich;John C. Lurie;M. Kenworthy;W. Jao;A. Riedel;J. Subasavage;J. Winters;C. Finch;P. Ianna;J. Bean
LP 876-10 is a nearby active M4 dwarf in Aquarius at a distance of 7.6 pc. The star is a new addition to the 10 pc census, with a parallax measured via the REsearch Consortium On Nearby Stars (RECONS) astrometric survey on the Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System's 0.9 m telescope. We demonstrate that the astrometry, radial velocity, and photometric data for LP 876-10 are consistent with the star being a third bound stellar component to the Fomalhaut multiple system, despite the star lying nearly 6° away from Fomalhaut A in the sky. The three-dimensional separation of LP 876-10 from Fomalhaut is only 0.77 ± 0.01 pc, and 0.987 ± 0.006 pc from TW PsA (Fomalhaut B), well within the estimated tidal radius of the Fomalhaut system (1.9 pc). LP 876-10 shares the motion of Fomalhaut within ∼1 km s−1, and we estimate an interloper probability of ∼10−5. Neither our echelle spectroscopy nor astrometry are able to confirm the close companion to LP 876-10 reported in the Washington Double Star Catalog (WSI 138). We argue that the Castor Moving Group to which the Fomalhaut system purportedly belongs, is likely to be a dynamical stream, and hence membership to the group does not provide useful age constraints for group members. LP 876-10 (Fomalhaut C) has now risen from obscurity to become a rare example of a field M dwarf with well-constrained age (440 ± 40 Myr) and metallicity. Besides harboring a debris disk system and candidate planet, Fomalhaut now has two of the widest known stellar companions.
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10.1088/0004-637x/713/1/410
发表时间:
2010
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The Astrophysical Journal
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Seifahrt;H. Hartman;H. Nilsson;G. Wiedemann;A. ReinersS. Dreizler;T. Henry
通讯作者:
T. Henry