Multiplicity study of T Tauri starsin the Lupus star forming region
Abstract
We carried out a high contrast imaging search for (sub)stellar companions of young pre-main sequence stars in the Lupus star forming region. For this project we utilized NACO/ESO-VLT, operated at the Paranal observatory. On this poster, we presented the results of this survey. In several observing campaigns we could obtain diffraction limited deep IR imaging data and detected faint co-moving companions around our targets, whose astro- and photometry was determined in all observing epochs. The co-moving companions found in our survey exhibit angular separations in the range between about 0.1 and a few arcsecs, i.e. projected separations between about 10 and a few hundreds of au, at the average distance of our targets of about 140 pc. Beside several new binary and triple star systems, whose multiplicity was revealed in this survey, also faint co-moving companions in the substellar mass regime could be identified close to some of our targets.
- Publication:
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Origins: From the Protosun to the First Steps of Life
- Pub Date:
- 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921319001601
- Bibcode:
- 2020IAUS..345..318M
- Keywords:
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- binaries (including multiple): close;
- visual;
- stars: pre-main-sequence;
- low-mass;
- brown dwarfs;
- techniques: high angular resolution