A WIDELY SEPARATED, HIGHLY OCCLUDED COMPANION TO THE NEARBY LOW-MASS T TAURI STAR TWA 30

A WIDELY SEPARATED, HIGHLY OCCLUDED COMPANION TO THE NEARBY LOW-MASS T TAURI STAR TWA 30

We report the discovery of TWA 30B, a wide (~3400 AU), co-moving M dwarf companion to the nearby (~42 pc) young star TWA 30. Companionship is confirmed from their statistically consistent proper motions and radial velocities (RVs), as well as a chance alignment probability of only 0.08%. Like TWA 30...

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Main Authors: Looper, Dagny L., Bochanski, John J., Burgasser, Adam J., Mohanty, Subhanjoy, Mamajek, Eric E., Faherty, Jacqueline K., West, Andrew A., Pitts, Mark A.
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88273

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