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2014A&A...561L...4B - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 561L4-4 (2014/1-1)

Possible astrometric discovery of a substellar companion to the closest binary brown dwarf system WISE J104915.57-531906.1.

BOFFIN H.M.J., POURBAIX D., MUZIC K., IVANOV V.D., KURTEV R., BELETSKY Y., MEHNER A., BERGER J.P., GIRARD J.H. and MAWET D.

Abstract (from CDS):

Using FORS2 on the Very Large Telescope, we have astrometrically monitored over a period of two months the two components of the brown dwarf system WISE J104915.57-531906.1, the closest one to the Sun. Our astrometric measurements - with a relative precision at the milli-arcsecond scale - allowed us to detect the orbital motion and derive more precisely the parallax of the system, leading to a distance of 2.020 ±0.019 pc. The relative orbital motion of the two objects is found to be perturbed, which leads us to suspect the presence of a substellar companion around one of the two components. We also performed VRIz photometry of the two components and compared this with models. We confirm the flux reversal of the T dwarf.

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Journal keyword(s): binaries: visual - parallaxes - astrometry - brown dwarfs

CDS comments: Paragraph 4. standard star E5 not identified.

Simbad objects: 5

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