Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion to the Accelerating Star HIP 53005 with Strongly Conflicting Mass Estimates

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Hauptverfasser: Uyama, Taichi, Currie, Thayne, Xuan, Jerry W., De Rosa, Robert, Kuzuhara, Masayuki, Chen, Minghan, Squicciarini, Vito, Beichman, Charles, Brandt, Timothy D., Deo, Vincent, Guyon, Olivier, Hirano, Teruyuki, Janson, Markus, Liu, Michael C., Mawet, Dimitri, Lozi, Julien, Nugroho, Stevanus, Tamura, Motohide, Vievard, Sebastien, Bovie, Danielle, Hori, Yasunori, Kawahara, Hajime, Kotani, Takayuki, Li, Yiting, Wang, Jason
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author Uyama, Taichi
Currie, Thayne
Xuan, Jerry W.
De Rosa, Robert
Kuzuhara, Masayuki
Chen, Minghan
Squicciarini, Vito
Beichman, Charles
Brandt, Timothy D.
Deo, Vincent
Guyon, Olivier
Hirano, Teruyuki
Janson, Markus
Liu, Michael C.
Mawet, Dimitri
Lozi, Julien
Nugroho, Stevanus
Tamura, Motohide
Vievard, Sebastien
Bovie, Danielle
Hori, Yasunori
Kawahara, Hajime
Kotani, Takayuki
Li, Yiting
Wang, Jason
author_facet Uyama, Taichi
Currie, Thayne
Xuan, Jerry W.
De Rosa, Robert
Kuzuhara, Masayuki
Chen, Minghan
Squicciarini, Vito
Beichman, Charles
Brandt, Timothy D.
Deo, Vincent
Guyon, Olivier
Hirano, Teruyuki
Janson, Markus
Liu, Michael C.
Mawet, Dimitri
Lozi, Julien
Nugroho, Stevanus
Tamura, Motohide
Vievard, Sebastien
Bovie, Danielle
Hori, Yasunori
Kawahara, Hajime
Kotani, Takayuki
Li, Yiting
Wang, Jason
contents We present the discovery of a low-mass companion located at $ρ$ $\sim$ 0\farcs{}85 ($r_{\rm proj} \approx 62~au$) from the early-type 1.2 Gyr-old star HIP 53005 using direct imaging data from the Subaru and Keck Telescopes and astrometry from the Hipparcos-Gaia Catalog of Accelerations. The companion, HIP 53005 C, is a component of a multiple system also including a $\approx$ 12\farcs{}4-separation M dwarf companion inducing a negligible proper motion acceleration. HIP~53005 C's position on color-magnitude diagrams, the fit of its spectral energy distribution to atmosphere models, and its location on an empirical mass-magnitude diagram all suggest that it lies at the M/L transition and near the hydrogen-burning limit ($\sim80~M_{\rm Jup}$). However, our orbital fitting combining direct-imaging relative astrometry with proper motion acceleration favors a much higher dynamical mass of $\sim185\ M_{\rm Jup}$. An additional unseen, more closely-orbiting companion below the detection limit (at $ρ\lesssim0\farcs2$)) may explain this discrepancy. Alternatively, HIP~53005C could be a low-mass binary like Gliese~229Bab, making this system an intriguing laboratory for studying multiple star formation.
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spellingShingle Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion to the Accelerating Star HIP 53005 with Strongly Conflicting Mass Estimates
Uyama, Taichi
Currie, Thayne
Xuan, Jerry W.
De Rosa, Robert
Kuzuhara, Masayuki
Chen, Minghan
Squicciarini, Vito
Beichman, Charles
Brandt, Timothy D.
Deo, Vincent
Guyon, Olivier
Hirano, Teruyuki
Janson, Markus
Liu, Michael C.
Mawet, Dimitri
Lozi, Julien
Nugroho, Stevanus
Tamura, Motohide
Vievard, Sebastien
Bovie, Danielle
Hori, Yasunori
Kawahara, Hajime
Kotani, Takayuki
Li, Yiting
Wang, Jason
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
We present the discovery of a low-mass companion located at $ρ$ $\sim$ 0\farcs{}85 ($r_{\rm proj} \approx 62~au$) from the early-type 1.2 Gyr-old star HIP 53005 using direct imaging data from the Subaru and Keck Telescopes and astrometry from the Hipparcos-Gaia Catalog of Accelerations. The companion, HIP 53005 C, is a component of a multiple system also including a $\approx$ 12\farcs{}4-separation M dwarf companion inducing a negligible proper motion acceleration. HIP~53005 C's position on color-magnitude diagrams, the fit of its spectral energy distribution to atmosphere models, and its location on an empirical mass-magnitude diagram all suggest that it lies at the M/L transition and near the hydrogen-burning limit ($\sim80~M_{\rm Jup}$). However, our orbital fitting combining direct-imaging relative astrometry with proper motion acceleration favors a much higher dynamical mass of $\sim185\ M_{\rm Jup}$. An additional unseen, more closely-orbiting companion below the detection limit (at $ρ\lesssim0\farcs2$)) may explain this discrepancy. Alternatively, HIP~53005C could be a low-mass binary like Gliese~229Bab, making this system an intriguing laboratory for studying multiple star formation.
title Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion to the Accelerating Star HIP 53005 with Strongly Conflicting Mass Estimates
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03767