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Duplicity Among Young Stars in Chamaeleon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Wen Ping Chen
Affiliation:
Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA
J.A. Graham
Affiliation:
Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA

Abstract

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We present infrared imaging results of young stars in Cha I and II clouds that show either extended structure or a nearby neighboring star. Both regions appear to show high incidence rates of pairs. After excluding possible background stars, as judged from their brightness, color, or the local stellar surface number density, a frequency of 10% is deduced for binaries in Cha I with separations 2-5″, which is comparable to that in Taurus and to that of main sequence field stars.

Type
Pre-Main Sequence & Young Binaries
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1992

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