| Issue |
A&A
Volume 417, Number 1, April I 2004
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | L11 - L14 | |
| Section | Letters | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20040028 | |
| Published online | 16 March 2004 | |
Letter to the Editor
The environment of the very red object Orion n
A possible low mass companion?
1
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble, 414 rue de la piscine, 38400 Saint-Martin d'Hères, France
2
ONERA, BP 52, 29 avenue de la Division Leclerc, 92320 Châtillon Cedex, France
3
Laboratoire D'Études Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris, Bât. 16, 5 Place J. Jansen, 92195 Meudon, France
4
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, 57 Av. d'Azereix, BP 826, 65008 Tarbes Cedex, France
Corresponding author: G. Chauvin, gchauvin@eso.org
Received:
18
March
2003
Accepted:
25
September
2003
We have imaged at high angular resolution the close environement of the very red source Orion n with NACO at the VLT UT4. We report the detection of a faint point like object 
away from this source. Assuming a distance of 
pc and an age of 1 Myr, the photometry of this candidate companion is consistent with an object of mass 70-150 
assuming a visible extinction of 
. The relationship between this object and Orion n is discussed hereafter.
Key words: stars: formation / stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs / stars: pre-main sequence
© ESO, 2004
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