Issue |
A&A
Volume 635, March 2020
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Article Number | L1 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Letters to the Editor | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937309 | |
Published online | 28 February 2020 |
Letter to the Editor
2MASS J15491331-3539118: a new low-mass wide companion of the GQ Lup system⋆
1
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, via Moiariello 16, 80131 Napoli, Italy
e-mail: juan.alcala@inaf.it
2
Dipartimento di Fisica, dell’Universitá di Roma Sapienza, P.le A. Moro 5, Roma 00185, Italy
3
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, 35122 Padova, Italy
4
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, via S. Sofia 78, 95123 Catania, Italy
5
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching bei Munchen, Germany
6
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, 38000 Grenoble, France
7
CRAL, UMR 5574, CNRS, Université de Lyon, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
8
Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, Code 667, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
9
Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France
Received:
12
December
2019
Accepted:
30
January
2020
Substellar companions at wide separation around stars hosting planets or brown dwarfs (BDs) yet close enough for their formation in the circumstellar disc are of special interest. In this Letter we report the discovery of a wide (projected separation ∼16″.0, or 2400 AU, and position angle 114.61°) companion of the GQ Lup A-B system, most likely gravitationally bound to it. A VLT/X-shooter spectrum shows that this star, 2MASS J15491331-3539118, is a bonafide low-mass (∼0.15 M⊙) young stellar object (YSO) with stellar and accretion/ejection properties typical of Lupus YSOs of similar mass, and with kinematics consistent with that of the GQ Lup A-B system. A possible scenario for the formation of the triple system is that GQ Lup A and 2MASS J15491331-3539118 formed by fragmentation of a turbulent core in the Lup I filament, while GQ Lup B, the BD companion of GQ Lup A at 0″.7, formed in situ by the fragmentation of the circumprimary disc. The recent discoveries that stars form along cloud filaments would favour the scenario of turbulent fragmentation for the formation of GQ Lup A and 2MASS J15491331-3539118.
Key words: stars: pre-main sequence / stars: low-mass / accretion, accretion disks / protoplanetary disks
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