Publication: An Astrometric Search for a Sub-stellar Companion of the M8.5 Dwarf TVLM 513–46546 Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry
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2013
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Forbrich, Jan, Edo Berger, and Mark J. Reid. 2013. An Astrometric Search for a Sub-stellar Companion of the M8.5 Dwarf TVLM 513–46546 Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry. The Astrophysical Journal 777, no. 1: 70. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/777/1/70.
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We conducted multi-epoch VLBI observations to search for astrometric reflex motion caused by a sub-stellar companion of the M8.5 dwarf TVLM 513–46546. The observations yield an absolute parallax corresponding to a distance of 10.762±0.027 pc and a proper motion of 78.09± 0.17 mas yr−1. From the absence of significant residual motion, we place an upper limit to any reflex motion caused by a companion, extending the parameter space covered by previous near-infrared direct-imaging searches. By covering different orbital periods, the data exclude a phase-space of companion masses and orbital periods ranging from 3.8 Mjup with an orbital radius of ∼ 0.05 AU (orbital period of 16 days) to 0.3 Mjup with an orbital radius of ∼ 0.7 AU (orbital period of 710 days).
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radio continuum: stars, stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs, planetary systems
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