Summary
G 196-3 is a young low-mass M dwarf type star which is about 100 million years old. The star is located within the Ursa Major constellation about 71.1 light years away[1] from the Earth. During observations by Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife, Spain in 1998, a substellar-mass object was discovered to orbit approximately 300 astronomical units (AU) from the star. It was detected using direct imaging.[2][3][4][5]
| Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Ursa Major |
| Right ascension | 10h 04m 21.4629s[1] |
| Declination | 50° 23′ 13.3872″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 13.3 |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | M3V |
| U−B color index | +1.67 |
| B−V color index | +1.16 |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | 11.7 km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: −141.177±0.055[1] mas/yr Dec.: −202.394±0.053[1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 45.8611 ± 0.0388 mas[1] |
| Distance | 71.12 ± 0.06 ly (21.80 ± 0.02 pc) |
| Absolute magnitude (MV) | 13.33 |
| Other designations | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
Substellar companion edit
Observations of the substellar object were performed on January 25, 1998 where a faint red companion was present 16.2 arc seconds southwest of the star. A comparison of images taken at different wavelengths was done using low-intermediate-resolution spectroscopy confirmed the presence of a substellar object which was named G 196-3B. The Further observations confirmed the discovery when the team of Rafael Rebolo obtained R & I broadband photometry on March 19, 1998. The TCS Telescope showed its very cool nature in near-infrared (K Band). The comparison of the optical and infrared magnitudes including dust condensation has allowed astronomers to conclude that the substellar object was 25–10+15 Jupiter masses or simply 25 masses that of the Jovian-planet Jupiter. This was the second[6][7] discovery of a brown dwarf that was found around a low-mass star whose age[8] was relatively young. The separation of the star and the substellar object has suggested that both were parts of a fragment from a collapsing cloud although another possible scenario suggests that it originated from a dissipated protoplanetary disk.[9][2][10][11][12][13]
| Companion (in order from star) |
Mass | Semimajor axis (AU) |
Orbital period (days) |
Eccentricity | Inclination | Radius |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | 15+30 −4 MJ |
390 | — | — | — | — |
See also edit
References edit
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- ^ a b Rafael Rebolo; et al. (1998). "Discovery of a Low-Mass Brown Dwarf Companion of the Young Nearby Star G 196-3". Science. 282 (5392): 1309–1312. arXiv:astro-ph/9811413. Bibcode:1998Sci...282.1309R. doi:10.1126/science.282.5392.1309. PMID 9812893. S2CID 10595230.
- ^ Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Wilson, John C.; Dahn, Conard C.; Monet, David G.; Reid, I. Neill; Liebert, James (2001). "Low-Luminosity Companions to Nearby Stars: Status of the 2MASS Data Search". In Jones, Hugh R. A.; Steele, Iain A. (eds.). Ultracool Dwarfs: New Spectral Types L and T. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer. p. 125. Bibcode:2001udns.conf..125K. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-56672-1_12. ISBN 978-3-642-56672-1.
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- ^ "Lowell Proper Motion Survey 8991 Northern Stars (Giclas 1971) ReadMe". Centre de Donnes Astronomiques. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- ^ "G196-3B : the second discovery of a brown dwarf around a low-mass star". Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). Retrieved 2010-02-22.
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- ^ Allers; Liu; Dupuy; Cushing (2009). "Discovery of Young Dwarf L Binary". Astrophysical Journal. 715 (561): 561–571. arXiv:0912.4687. Bibcode:2010ApJ...715..561A. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/715/1/561. S2CID 116058913.
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- ^ Zakhozhay, Olga; Zapatero Osorio, María Rosa; Béjar, Víctor J. S.; Boehler, Yann (2017), "Spectral energy distribution simulations of a possible ring structure around the young, red brown dwarf G 196-3 B", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464 (1): 1108–1118, arXiv:1609.02859, doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2308