A Substellar Companion to Pleiades HII 3441
Mihoko Konishi, Taro Matsuo, Kodai Yamamoto, Matthias Samland, Jun, Sudo, Hiroshi Shibai, Yoichi Itoh, Misato Fukagawa, Takahiro Sumi, Tomoyuki, Kudo, Jun Hashimoto, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Nobuhiko Kusakabe, Lyu Abe, Eiji, Akiyama, Wolfgang Brandner, Timothy D. Brandt

TL;DR
This paper reports the discovery of a new substellar companion to a Pleiades star using adaptive optics, providing insights into the frequency and characteristics of such companions in young star clusters.
Contribution
The study presents the first detection of a substellar companion to Pleiades HII 3441 using high-contrast imaging, and estimates the substellar companion fraction in the cluster.
Findings
Detected a substellar companion at 66 AU separation.
Estimated the companion's mass to be 68 Jupiter masses.
Found a substellar companion fraction of about 10% in the Pleiades.
Abstract
We find a new substellar companion to the Pleiades member star, Pleiades HII 3441, using the Subaru telescope with adaptive optics. The discovery is made as part of the high-contrast imaging survey to search for planetary-mass and substellar companions in the Pleiades and young moving groups. The companion has a projected separation of 0".49 +/- 0".02 (66 +/- 2 AU) and a mass of 68 +/- 5 M_J based on three observations in the J-, H-, and K_S-band. The spectral type is estimated to be M7 (~2700 K), and thus no methane absorption is detected in the H band. Our Pleiades observations result in the detection of two substellar companions including one previously reported among 20 observed Pleiades stars, and indicate that the fraction of substellar companions in the Pleiades is about 10.0 +26.1/-8.8 %. This is consistent with multiplicity studies of both the Pleiades stars and other open…
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