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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 678, Issue 1, Pages L59-L62Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/588216
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stars : low-mass; brown dwarfs
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CoKu Tau/4 has been labeled as one of the very few known transition disk objects - disks around young stars that have their inner disks cleared of dust, arguably as a result of planetary formation. We report aperture-masking interferometry and adaptive optics imaging observations showing that CoKu Tau/4 is in fact a near-equal binary star of projected separation similar to 53 mas (similar to 8 AU). The spectral energy distribution of the disk is then naturally explained by the inner truncation of the disk through gravitational interactions with the binary star system. We discuss the possibility that such unseen binary companions could cause other circumbinary disks to be labeled as transitional.
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