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. (Author), Bochanski, John J. (Contributor), Burgasser, Adam J. (Contributor), Mohanty, Subhanjoy (Author), Mamajek, Eric E. (Author), Faherty, Jacqueline K. (Author), West, Andrew A. (Author), Pitts, Mark A. (Author)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2014-07-11T16:36:01Z.
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