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تسجيل مستخدم جديدDynamical Measurements of the Young Upper Scorpius Triple NTTS 155808-2219
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The young, low-mass, triple system NTTS 155808-2219 (ScoPMS 20) was previously identified as a ~17-day period single-lined spectroscopic binary with a tertiary component at 0.21 arcseconds. Using high-resolution infrared spectra, acquired with NIRSPEC on Keck II, both with and without adaptive optics, we measured radial velocities of all three components. Reanalysis of the single-lined visible light observations, made from 1987 to 1993, also yielded radial velocity detections of the three stars. Combining visible light and infrared data to compute the orbital solution produces orbital parameters consistent with the single-lined solution and a mass ratio of q = 0.78 +/- 0.01 for the SB. We discuss the consistency between our results and previously published data on this system, our radial-velocity analysis with both observed and synthetic templates, and the possibility that this system is eclipsing, providing a potential method for the determination of the stars absolute masses. Over the ~20 year baseline of our observations, we have measured the acceleration of the SBs center-of-mass in its orbit with the tertiary. Long-term, adaptive optics imaging of the tertiary will eventually yield dynamical data useful for component mass estimates.
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