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Multiplicity Among the Young Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. Simon
M. Simon*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Program, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

Abstract

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Our survey for companions of the young stars now includes 45 systems in the Taurus star-forming region (SFR) and 21 in the Ophiuchus SFR. It is carried out by lunar occultation and imaging in the IR and can identify binaries in the separation range 0″.005 to 10″ in systems brighter than K=10 mag. The observed multiplicity in Taurus is ~1.6 stars/system which is comparable to that of the nearby solarlike stars but corrections for incompleteness increase the multiplicity to at least 1.8.

Inner active disks are equally represented among the single and multiple systems. The multiple systems have less massive outer disks than the single systems, but there are significant exceptions. The binary UZ Tau W contains a circumstellar disk or disks of mass ~0.024 M⊙ and size ~13 AU. The quadruple GG Tau system has a remarkably extensive circumbinary disk of mass ~ 0.07M⊙. These mass estimates are comparable to the minimum values required for the proto-planetary disk of the Solar System.

The specific angular momenta of the most widely spaced binaries in our sample adjoin the lowest values that can be measured for molecular cloud cores. The actual distributions probably overlap which suggests that the origin of the angular momentum of binaries is in their molecular cloud birthplaces.

Type
Pre-Main Sequence & Young Binaries
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 135: Complementary Approaches to Double and Multiple Star Research , 1992 , pp. 41 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1992

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