Finding new sub-stellar co-moving companion candidates - the case of CT Cha

dc.creatorSchmidt, T. O. B.
dc.creatorNeuhäuser, R.
dc.date2009-05-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:14:09Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T13:14:09Z
dc.descriptionWe have searched for close and faint companions around T Tauri stars in the Chamaeleon star forming region. Two epochs of direct imaging data were taken with the VLT Adaptive Optics instrument NaCo in February 2006 and March 2007 in Ks band for the classical T Tauri star CT Cha together with a Hipparcos binary for astrometric calibration. Moreover a J band image was taken in March 2007 to get color information. We found CT Cha to have a very faint companion (Ks{0} = 14.6 mag) of ~ 2.67" separation corresponding to ~ 440 AU. We show that CT Cha A and the faint object form a common proper motion pair and that the companion is not a non-moving background object (with 4 sigma significance).
dc.description5 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 249: Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics, Suzhou - China, 22-26 October 2007
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1921
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1921
dc.identifierdoi:10.1017/S1743921308016396
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/230121
dc.subjectEarth and Planetary Astrophysics
dc.subjectSolar and Stellar Astrophysics
dc.titleFinding new sub-stellar co-moving companion candidates - the case of CT Cha
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