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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 630, Issue 1, Pages 528-534Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/431967
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stars : low-mass, brown dwarfs
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The Stellar Planet Survey is an ongoing astrometric search for giant planets and brown dwarfs around a sample of similar to 30 M dwarfs. We have discovered several low-mass companions by measuring the motion of our target stars relative to their reference frames. The lowest mass discovery thus far is GJ 802b, a companion to the M5 dwarf GJ 802A. The orbital period is 3.14 +/- 0.03 yr, the system mass is 0.214 +/- 0.045 M-circle dot, and the semimajor axis is 1.28 +/- 0.10 AU or 81 +/- 6 mas. Imaging observations indicate that GJ 802b is likely to be a brown dwarf with the astrometrically determined mass 0.058 +/- 0.021 M-circle dot (1 sigma limits). The remaining uncertainty in the orbit is the eccentricity that is now loosely constrained. We discuss how the system age limits the mass and the prospects of further narrowing the mass range when e is more precisely determined.
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