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Binarity in the Orion Trapezium Cluster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Mark J. McCaughrean
Mark J. McCaughrean*
Affiliation:
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany

Abstract

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We summarise the results of recent optical and near-infrared imaging studies of the binary fraction among young low-mass stars in the dense Orion Trapezium Cluster. Over the separation range ∼ 30–500 AU and within the observational errors, there appears to be no excess of binary systems in the cluster relative to the main sequence field star population. Over the separation range ∼ 1000–5000 AU, the cluster is deficient in binaries relative to the field. Both results are in contrast to those found for the more distributed population of young stars in the Taurus-Auriga dark clouds, which is overabundant in binaries by roughly a factor of two. We briefly discuss possible origins for this difference and observational tests which may distinguish between them, and the implications these results have for our understanding of the typical environment where most young stars are born.

Type
VI. Binary Populations in Young Clusters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 200: The Formation of Binary Stars , 2001 , pp. 169 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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