The Wide Brown Dwarf Binary Oph 1622-2405 and Discovery of A Wide, Low Mass Binary in Ophiuchus (Oph 1623-2402): A New Class of Young Evaporating Wide Binaries?
@article{Close2006TheWB, title={The Wide Brown Dwarf Binary Oph 1622-2405 and Discovery of A Wide, Low Mass Binary in Ophiuchus (Oph 1623-2402): A New Class of Young Evaporating Wide Binaries?}, author={L. Close and B. Zuckerman and I. Song and T. Barman and C. Marois and E. Rice and N. Siegler and B. Macintosh and E. Becklin and R. Campbell and J. Lyke and A. Conrad and D. L. Mignant}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2006}, volume={660}, pages={1492-1506} }
We imaged five objects near the star-forming clouds of Ophiuchus with the Keck Laser Guide Star AO system. We resolved sources 11 (Oph 16222-2405) and 16 (Oph 16233-2402) from Allers and coworkers into binary systems. Source 11 is resolved into a 243 AU binary, the widest known for a very low mass (VLM) binary. The binary nature of source 11 was discovered first by Allers and independently here, during which we obtained the first spatially resolved R ~ 2000 near-infrared (J and K) spectra, mid… Expand
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