Identification of a wide, low-mass multiple system containing the brown dwarf 2MASS J0850359+105716

We report our discovery of NLTT 20346 as an M5+M6 companion system to the tight binary (or triple) L dwarf 2MASS J0850359+105716. This nearby (~31 pc), widely separated (~7700 AU) quadruple system was identified through a cross-match of proper motion catalogs. Follow-up imaging and spectroscopy of N...

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Main Authors: Faherty, Jacqueline K., Burgasser, Adam J., Bochanski, John J., Looper, Dagny L., West, Andrew A., van der Bliek, Nicole S.
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92747