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Published January 1, 2007 | Published
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Binarity of the Nearby 30 Myr Old Solar Analog HIP 16853 in the Tucana-Horologium Stream

Abstract

A robust unconstrained orbital solution is obtained for the G2 V star HIP 16853 = HD 22705 at 42 pc, which is a probable member of the 28-30 Myr old Tucana-Horologium stream of post-T Tauri stars. The solution yields an apparent semimajor axis of 5.1 ± 0.7 mas, a period of 201 ± 2 days, and an inclination of 80° ± 7°. Assuming a mass of 1 M_⊙ for the primary, the close companion is only 0.4 M_⊙, which implies a spectral type M0.5 at this age. The expected maximum separation (a) between the companions is 18 mas, which makes this system amenable for high-resolution observations. The wide companion HIP 16853 B at 14" is investigated as a possible tertiary component but rejected on account of the near-infrared photometric data inconsistent with the well-defined H-R diagram of the Tucana-Horologium group.

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© 2007 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2006 October 24; accepted 2006 November 16; published 2006 December 18. The research described in this Letter was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France; and data products from the 2MASS, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Technology Institute, funded by NASA and the NSF.

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