Bibcode
DOI
Béjar, V. J. S.; Zapatero Osorio, M. R.; Pérez-Garrido, A.; Alvarez-Iglesias, C. A.; Martín, E. L.; Rebolo, R.; Villó-Pérez, I.; Díaz-Sánchez, A.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 673, Issue 2, pp. L185-L189.
Fecha de publicación:
2
2008
Revista
Número de citas
82
Número de citas referidas
77
Descripción
We present the discovery of a companion near the deuterium-burning mass
limit located at a very wide distance, at an angular separation of
4.6''+/-0.1'' (projected distance of ~ 670 AU)
from UScoCTIO 108, a brown dwarf of the very young Upper Scorpius
association. Optical and near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy
confirm the cool nature of both objects, with spectral types of M7 and
M9.5, respectively, and that they are bona fide members of the
association, showing low gravity and features of youth. Their masses,
estimated from the comparison of their bolometric luminosities and
theoretical models for the age range of the association, are 60+/-20 and
14+2-8 MJup, respectively. The
existence of this object around a brown dwarf at this wide orbit
suggests that the companion is unlikely to have formed in a disk based
on current planet formation models. Because this system is rather weakly
bound, they probably did not form through dynamical ejection of stellar
embryos.
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