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光谱双星的低质量第三伴星I:利用2 MASS对宽伴星的共同自行巡天

Low-Mass Tertiary Companions to Spectroscopic Binaries I: Common Proper Motion Survey for Wide Companions using 2MASS

Peter R. Allen, Adam J. Burgasser, Jacqueline K. Faherty, J. Davy Kirkpatrick

摘要:

我们报告的第一个结果的多时代的搜索宽(分离大于几十个AU),低质量的第三同伴的体积有限的样本118个已知的光谱双星在30 pc的太阳,使用2 MASS点源目录和后续观察与KPNO和CTIO 4米望远镜。请注意,这个样本不是体积完整的,而是体积有限的,因此,我们报告的伴随率是不完整的。我们对常见的自行伴星很敏感,它们的距离大约在200 AU到10,000 AU(~10”-> ~ 10 ')之间。从77个来源跟踪到目前为止,我们恢复了11个以前已知的三级,三个以前已知的候选三级,其中两个光谱确认和一个拒绝,和三个新的候选人,其中两个确认和一个拒绝。由此得出的宽三级馏分估计值为19.5^+5.2%-3.7%。这个观测到的比例与恒星形成模拟中的预测一致,其中光谱联星中宽的低质量伴星的比例> 10%,大约是单星宽伴星比例的两倍。

英文摘要:

We report the first results of a multi-epoch search for wide (separations greater than a few tens of AU), low-mass tertiary companions of a volume-limited sample of 118 known spectroscopic binaries within 30 pc of the Sun, using the 2MASS Point Source Catalog and follow-up observations with the KPNO and CTIO 4m telescopes. Note that this sample is not volume-complete but volume-limited, and, thus, there is incompleteness in our reported companion rates. We are sensitive to common proper motion companions with separations from roughly 200 AU to 10,000 AU (~10" -> ~10'). From 77 sources followed-up to date, we recover 11 previously known tertiaries, three previously known candidate tertiaries, of which two are spectroscopically confirmed and one rejected, and three new candidates, of which two are confirmed and one rejected. This yields an estimated wide tertiary fraction of 19.5^+5.2%_-3.7%. This observed fraction is consistent with predictions set out in star formation simulations where the fraction of wide, low-mass companions to spectroscopic binaries is >10%, and is roughly twice the wide companion rate of single stars.

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