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Published July 2012 | Published
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Spectral Typing of Late-type Stellar Companions to Young Stars from Low-dispersion Near-infrared Integral Field Unit Data

Abstract

We used the Project 1640 near-infrared coronagraph and integral field spectrograph to observe 19 young solar-type stars. Five of these stars are known binary stars and we detected the late-type secondaries and were able to measure their JH spectra with a resolution of R ~ 30. The reduced, extracted, and calibrated spectra were compared to template spectra from the IRTF spectral library. With this comparison, we test the accuracy and consistency of spectral-type determination with the low-resolution near-infrared spectra from P1640. Additionally, we determine effective temperature and surface gravity of the companions by fitting synthetic spectra calculated with the PHOENIX model atmosphere code. We also present several new epochs of astrometry of each of the systems. Together, these data increase our knowledge and understanding of the stellar make up of these systems. In addition to the astronomical results, the analysis presented helps validate the Project 1640 data reduction and spectral extraction processes and the utility of low-resolution, near-infrared spectra for characterizing late-type companions in multiple systems.

Additional Information

© 2012 American Astronomical Society. Received 2012 March 28; accepted 2012 May 5; published 2012 June 7. In addition, we thank A. Kraus and N. Madhusudhan for useful discussions. The paper is based on observations obtained at the Hale Telescope, Palomar Observatory as part of a continuing collaboration between the California Institute of Technology, NASA/JPL, and Cornell University. We thank the staff of the Palomar Observatory for their invaluable assistance in collecting these data. A portion of the research in this paper was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and was funded through the NASA ROSES Origins of Solar Systems Grant NMO710830/102190. This research was also supported in part by the American Astronomical Society's Small Research Grant Program. In addition, part of this work was performed under a contract with the California Institute of Technology funded by NASA through the Sagan Fellowship Program. Project 1640 is funded by the National Science Foundation grants AST-0520822, AST-0804417, and AST-0908484. The members of the Project 1640 team are also grateful for support from the Cordelia Corporation, Hilary and Ethel Lipsitz, the Vincent Astor Fund, Judy Vale, Andrew Goodwin, and an anonymous donor. This research made use of the Washington Double Star Catalog maintained at the U.S. Naval Observatory, the SIMBAD database, operated by the CDS in Strasbourg, France, and NASA's Astrophysics Data System.

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