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| Subject: dM Proper-motion Companions to 51 Peg 16th March 2010, 8:58 pm | |
| A Common Proper Motion Companion to the Exoplanet Host 51 Pegasi http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3032 - Abstract wrote:
- The exoplanet host 51 Pegasi has a widely separated red dwarf companion. Two other, far more distant, stars are also co-moving with this star, showing that they are at least of common Galactic orbit due to a common origin.
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Lazarus dF star
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| Subject: Re: dM Proper-motion Companions to 51 Peg 17th March 2010, 4:04 pm | |
| So the "51 Pegasi moving group" then? | |
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| Subject: Re: dM Proper-motion Companions to 51 Peg 17th March 2010, 5:15 pm | |
| Sounds good to me. Are moving groups usually only a handfull of stars? _________________ Caps Lock: Cruise control for 'Cool'!
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| Subject: Re: dM Proper-motion Companions to 51 Peg 27th April 2010, 8:48 pm | |
| Or maybe not. On the Nature of the Purported Common Proper Motion Companions to the Exoplanet Host Star 51 Peg http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4700 - Abstract wrote:
- Greaves (2006) proposed that three red, high proper motion stars within 10 degrees of 51 Peg (NLTT 54007, 54064, & 55547) are co-moving companions to this famous exoplanet host star. While the stars clearly have proper motions similar to 51 Peg, the inferred kinematic parallaxes for these stars produce extremely inconsistent color-magnitude positions 2 to 4 magnitudes below the main sequence. All three stars are likely to be background stars unrelated to 51 Peg.
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