Hipparcos, Gaia, and RVs reveal that the radio emitting F star HD 220242 has an M dwarf companion, a likely source of the radio emission
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| author | Delamer, Megan Stefánsson, Guðmundur Mahadevan, Suvrath Cañas, Caleb I. Vedantham, Harish K. Gupta, Arvind F. Callingham, Joseph R. Oliver, Juan Bautista Climent Cochran, William Fernandes, Rachel B. Fitzmaurice, Evan Guirado, Jose Carlos Hartmann, Michael Hatzes, Artie P. Koo, Elise Libby-Roberts, Jessica E. Ninan, Joe P. Pérez-Torres, Miguel Robertson, Paul Roy, Arpita Schwab, Christian |
| author_facet | Delamer, Megan Stefánsson, Guðmundur Mahadevan, Suvrath Cañas, Caleb I. Vedantham, Harish K. Gupta, Arvind F. Callingham, Joseph R. Oliver, Juan Bautista Climent Cochran, William Fernandes, Rachel B. Fitzmaurice, Evan Guirado, Jose Carlos Hartmann, Michael Hatzes, Artie P. Koo, Elise Libby-Roberts, Jessica E. Ninan, Joe P. Pérez-Torres, Miguel Robertson, Paul Roy, Arpita Schwab, Christian |
| contents | The detection of circularly polarized, low frequency radio emission offers the tantalizing possibility of the observation of interactions between stars and their possible substellar companions, as well as direct emission from exoplanets. Additional follow up of systems with radio emission is key to understanding the true origin of the emission, since multiple astrophysical mechanisms can plausibly lead to such signals. While nineteen M dwarfs were detected by LOFAR in circular polarization as part of the V-LoTSS survey, HD~220242 is the only F star to have a circularly polarized low frequency radio detection in the same survey. We conducted radial velocity follow up with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and combined these observations with additional archival RVs and \textit{Hipparcos}-\textit{Gaia} proper motion accelerations to determine that HD~220242 has a stellar companion with P=16.79$\pm$0.04\,yrs and a mass of $0.619\pm0.014$\,M$_\odot$. We use Spectral Energy Distribution fitting and lack of any UV excess to rule out a co-evolved white dwarf companion and confirm that the companion is an M dwarf star. Given that F stars lack the coronal properties to produce such coherent emission, and the companion mass and lack of UV excess are consistent with an M dwarf, the radio emission is most plausibly associated with the companion. |
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| spellingShingle | Hipparcos, Gaia, and RVs reveal that the radio emitting F star HD 220242 has an M dwarf companion, a likely source of the radio emission Delamer, Megan Stefánsson, Guðmundur Mahadevan, Suvrath Cañas, Caleb I. Vedantham, Harish K. Gupta, Arvind F. Callingham, Joseph R. Oliver, Juan Bautista Climent Cochran, William Fernandes, Rachel B. Fitzmaurice, Evan Guirado, Jose Carlos Hartmann, Michael Hatzes, Artie P. Koo, Elise Libby-Roberts, Jessica E. Ninan, Joe P. Pérez-Torres, Miguel Robertson, Paul Roy, Arpita Schwab, Christian Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics The detection of circularly polarized, low frequency radio emission offers the tantalizing possibility of the observation of interactions between stars and their possible substellar companions, as well as direct emission from exoplanets. Additional follow up of systems with radio emission is key to understanding the true origin of the emission, since multiple astrophysical mechanisms can plausibly lead to such signals. While nineteen M dwarfs were detected by LOFAR in circular polarization as part of the V-LoTSS survey, HD~220242 is the only F star to have a circularly polarized low frequency radio detection in the same survey. We conducted radial velocity follow up with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and combined these observations with additional archival RVs and \textit{Hipparcos}-\textit{Gaia} proper motion accelerations to determine that HD~220242 has a stellar companion with P=16.79$\pm$0.04\,yrs and a mass of $0.619\pm0.014$\,M$_\odot$. We use Spectral Energy Distribution fitting and lack of any UV excess to rule out a co-evolved white dwarf companion and confirm that the companion is an M dwarf star. Given that F stars lack the coronal properties to produce such coherent emission, and the companion mass and lack of UV excess are consistent with an M dwarf, the radio emission is most plausibly associated with the companion. |
| title | Hipparcos, Gaia, and RVs reveal that the radio emitting F star HD 220242 has an M dwarf companion, a likely source of the radio emission |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10072 |