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GSS 31: Another T Tauri star with an infrared companion *

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Hans Zinnecker
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
Alain Chelli
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomia, Mexico City
Luis Carrasco
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomia, Mexico City
Irene Cruz-Gonzales
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomia, Mexico City
Christian Perrier
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Lyon, Saint Genis-Laval

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Using a rapid slit scan technique in the infrared (JHKL), the source GSS 31 (alias EL 22 or Do-Ar 24E), a T Tauri star in the Ophiuchus dark cloud, was discovered to be double at a projected separation of 1.“95±0.”10 (i.e. 320 AU). The position angle is almost exactly north-south. This is the second discovery of its kind, and the first in the southern hemisphere, the only previous case known being T Tauri itself (Dyck et al. 1982, Schwartz et al. 1984). The important point is that we were able to secure infrared photometry separately for both components while for T Tau the separation into two components was model-dependent due to their small separation (0.6). IR-photometry for the joint system GSS 31 had previously been obtained by Grasdalen, Strom & Strom (1973) and Elias (1978), while Chini (1981) obtained UBVRI photometry.

Type
Bipolar Flows, Jets and Protostars
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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