Table 10:
An estimate of the number of primordial binaries in Sco OB2 with A and late-B primaries and brown dwarf companions (with 0.02
)
in the angular separation range
.
Columns 1 and 2 list the model number (cf. Table 8), and the fraction of binaries with angular separation
(assuming Öpik's law). Column 3 lists the fraction
of primaries in the simulated association that is of type A or late-B. Column 4 shows the contribution of brown dwarf companions in Sco OB2 with A and late-B primaries in the angular separation range
,
inferred from the 28 free-floating brown dwarfs in Sco OB2 found by Martín et al. (2004), assuming that all brown dwarfs were formed as companions. Column 5 shows the total number of primordial brown dwarf companions with
and A or late-B primaries, with the observed brown dwarf companions (corrected for unseen brown dwarfs with K>14 mag) included. The values of
are upper limits, as it is likely that not all free-floating brown dwarfs were formed as companions.