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- Calissendorff, Per, 1989-
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Characterising Emblematic Binaries at the Lowest Stellar and Substellar Masses
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Stars are involved in most research fields of astronomy, ranging from studies of faraway galaxies, exploding supernovae, to more nearby exoplanets and even our own Sun. As such, it is paramount that our physical interpretation of stars is accurate. By observing stars at different epochs, we can fashion evolutionary models to predict important events that occur at different phases during their life-cycle. Thus, exemplary stars where properties including mass, age and luminosity can be observed become increasingly valuable as benchmarks for calibrating said models with. Sometimes, all of these essential properties can be measured for a single system. For instance, for a binary star which circles a common centre of mass we can from its orbital motion calculate the dynamical mass of the system. If the stellar system also has a well-determined age we may use it as a benchmark for our models, and hence refer to it as an emblematic binary system.In this thesis we are searching for exactly these emblematic binaries, both among lowmass stars and substellar brown dwarfs. We also show how to measure the different characteristics that make the systems into exemplary touchstones. We provide an overview over the different types of stellar binaries, how mass and age estimates are performed, as well as discuss the implications multiplicity has for the formation and evolution of stars and brown dwarfs. In Paper I we present the results from an orbital fit we constrained for a low-mass binary with a known age, making into a valuable and relatively rare benchmark. We also show in Paper II how long baseline astrometry can be exploited in order to place better constraints for orbital fits and dynamical masses for low-mass companions to stars by measuring the perturbation in proper motion over time. The dynamical masses are sequentially tested against evolutionary models, which at these low masses display several discrepancies compared to the observables, and are thus questioned. We explore more uncharted mass-regimes in Paper III, where we employ laser guide star assisted adaptive optics to search for multiplicity among faint substellar objects in young moving groups, detecting 3 new young brown dwarf binary systems. These new binaries will prove to be highly valuable systems for future research of brown dwarfs, and will be able to be studied further with for instance the Extremely Large Telescope or James Webb Space Telescope, which also makes them into prominent benchmarks for substellar evolutionary models. Furthermore, age estimation typically dominates the error budget for low-mass stars and brown dwarfs, requiring several different approaches for a robust assessment. In Paper IV we test and compare different techniques for age determination of 7 low-mass binary stars. These binaries have had their orbital motion monitored for a longer time, and will soon be constrained well enough that dynamical masses may be procured. As such, these low-mass binaries will extend the so far scarce number of exemplary systems where both mass, luminosity and age can be determined, to later be used to calibrate theoretical evolutionary models.
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- Calissendorff, Per, 1989-
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Characterising Young Stellar Binaries
- 2018
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Stars are dispersed all over the sky within our Galaxy, appearing in large varieties of ages and sizes. How- ever, estimating said traits proves not to always be trivial, but certain circumstances allow us to probe the characteristics of stellar binaries. Fortunately, most stars are found to be part of binary or multiple systems, and through their brightness we can study their sizes, while their dynamical interactions let us derive masses. Although absolute ages are near-impossible to estimate, we posses several methods for constraining age-limits of stars at various evolutionary stages. Theoretical models can provide us with an idea of some of the attributes of stars, but sometimes require assumptions that are not always validated. When fundamental physical laws can be used to deduce individual masses of stellar systems, we procure means to constrain and calibrate those models. As such, the multiplicity of different types of stars is of high importance, which separation and mass distributions can also help us constrain formation scenarios among the different mass-regimes. In this review we compile information regarding the detection of binary and multiple stellar systems, as well as how one can go about to estimate their most fundamental quantities including mass and age. We also compare the different methods and techniques employed throughout the literature, addressing various caveats, examples of usage and the future outlook with coming improvements. In the final part of the review, we present the results from a recent paper about the orbital motions of a triple system, which yield a dynamical mass of the system which shows inconsistencies with the theoretical mass obtained from current low-mass stellar evolutionary models.
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- Calissendorff, Per, 1989-, et al.
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Characterizing Young Visual M-dwarf Binaries with Near IR Integral Field Spectra
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Ingår i: Astronomy and Astrophysics. - 0004-6361 .- 1432-0746.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present the results from an integral field spectroscopy study of seven close visual binary pairs of young M-dwarf multiple systems. The target systems are part of the astrometric monitoring AstraLux program, surveying hundreds of M-dwarf systems for multiplicity and obtaining astrometric epochs for orbital constraints. Our new VLT/SINFONI data provides resolved spectral type classification in the J, H and K bands for seven of these low-mass M-dwarf binaries, which we determine by comparing them to empirical templates and examining the strength of water absorption in the K-band. The medium resolution K-band spectra also allows us to derive effective temperatures for the individual components. All targets in the survey display several signs of youth, and some have kinematics similar to young moving groups, or low surface gravities which we determine from measuring equivalent widths of gravity sensitive alkali lines in the J-band. Resolved photometry from our targets is also compared with isochrones from theoretical evolutionary models, further implying young ages. Dynamical masses will be provided from ongoing monitoring of these systems, which can be seen as emblematic binary benchmarks that may be used to calibrate evolutionary models for low-mass stars in the future.
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- Calissendorff, Per, 1989-, et al.
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Updated orbital monitoring and dynamical masses for nearby M-dwarf binaries
- 2022
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Ingår i: Astronomy and Astrophysics. - : EDP Sciences. - 0004-6361 .- 1432-0746. ; 666
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Young M-type binaries are particularly useful for precise isochronal dating by taking advantage of their extended pre-main sequence evolution. Orbital monitoring of these low-mass objects becomes essential in constraining their fundamental properties, as dynamical masses can be extracted from their Keplerian motion. Here, we present the combined efforts of the AstraLux Large Multiplicity Survey, together with a filler sub-programme from the SpHere INfrared Exoplanet (SHINE) project and previously unpublished data from the FastCam lucky imaging camera at the Nordical Optical Telescope (NOT) and the NaCo instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). Building on previous work, we use archival and new astrometric data to constrain orbital parameters for 20 M-type binaries. We identify that eight of the binaries have strong Bayesian probabilities and belong to known young moving groups (YMGs). We provide a first attempt at constraining orbital parameters for 14 of the binaries in our sample, with the remaining six having previously fitted orbits for which we provide additional astrometric data and updated Gaia parallaxes. The substantial orbital information built up here for four of the binaries allows for direct comparison between individual dynamical masses and theoretical masses from stellar evolutionary model isochrones, with an additional three binary systems with tentative individual dynamical mass estimates likely to be improved in the near future. We attained an overall agreement between the dynamical masses and the theoretical masses from the isochrones based on the assumed YMG age of the respective binary pair. The two systems with the best orbital constrains for which we obtained individual dynamical masses, J0728 and J2317, display higher dynamical masses than predicted by evolutionary models.
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