VLT/NACO adaptive optics imaging of the TY CrA system. A fourth stellar component candidate detected
Abstract
We report the detection of a possible subsolar mass companion to the triple young system TY CrA using the NACO instrument at the VLT UT4 during its commissioning. Assuming for TY CrA a distance similar to that of the close binary system HD 176386, the photometric spectral type of this fourth stellar component candidate is consistent with an ~ M 4 star. We discuss the dynamical stability of this possible quadruple system as well as the possible location of dusty particles inside or outside the system.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- July 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1051/0004-6361:20030554
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0304271
- Bibcode:
- 2003A&A...406L..51C
- Keywords:
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- binaries: eclipsing;
- stars: pre-main sequence;
- stars: low-mass;
- circumstellar matter;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 2 figures postscript