Issue |
A&A
Volume 406, Number 2, August I 2003
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Page(s) | 685 - 689 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20030805 | |
Published online | 17 November 2003 |
A fourth component in the young multiple system V 773 Tauri*
Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Sternwarte 5, 07778 Tautenburg, Germany
Corresponding author: woitas@tls-tautenburg.de
Received:
8
November
2002
Accepted:
19
May
2003
I report on a new component in the pre-main sequence multiple system
V 773 Tauri. This second visual companion, V 773 Tau C,
with a projected separation of ≈ has been detected
using speckle interferometry in the near-infrared. Repeated observations
from 1996 to 2002 show significant orbital motion and thus confirm the
character of the new companion as a gravitationally bound star.
Together with the two components of the spectroscopic binary V 773 Tau A
and the previously known visual companion V 773 Tau B, the
V 773 Tau system appears as a young “mini-cluster” of four T Tauri
stars within a sphere of a radius less than 100 AU.
V 773 Tau A, B and C form
a triple system that is not hierarchic, but is apparently stable
despite of this. The brightness of V 773 Tau C has probably
increased over the last years, which may explain its non-detection
in previous binary surveys.
Key words: stars: binaries: general / stars: individual: V 773 Tau / stars: pre-main sequence / techniques: interferometric
© ESO, 2003
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