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HR 2562 B is a substellar companion orbiting the star HR 2562. Discovered in 2016 by a team led by Quinn M. Konopacky by direct imaging, HR 2562 B orbits within the inner edge of HR 2562's circumstellar disc—as of April 2023, it is one of only two known brown dwarfs to do so. Separated by roughly 20 astronomical units (3.0×10 km) from its primary companion, HR 2562 B has drawn interest for its potential dynamical interactions with the outer circumstellar disc.

Discovery

HR 2562 B was discovered using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), which first observed the star HR 2562 in January 2016. In the initial data set, Konopacky and collaborators identified a candidate companion object. As a result, followup observations were conducted within the following month in the infrared K1-, K2-, and J-bands. Within the processed data set, HR 2562 B was confirmed to share a common proper motion with HR 2562, with Konopacky and collaborators announcing its discovery in a paper published on 14 September 2016.

Host star

HR 2562 B's parent star, HR 2562 (alternatively designated HD 50571 or HIP32775), has a mass of 1.368±0.018 M_☉ and a radius of 1.334±0.027 R_☉. With an estimated effective temperature of 6597 ± 81K, it is a main-sequence star with the spectral type F5V. It is located 110.92 ± 0.16 light-years (34.007 ± 0.048 pc) from the Sun in the constellation Pictor. HR 2562 is not known to belong to a moving group or stellar cluster.

As with many mid F-type stars, the age of HR 2562 is poorly constrained. Between 1999 and 2011, estimates from various teams of astronomers determined ages ranging from roughly 300 Myr to 1.6 Gyr. In 2018, a team of astronomers led by D. Mesa derived an age of 450+300
−250 Myr using measurements of the star's lithium-temperature relationship.

Properties

Orbital properties

Initial observations of HR 2562 B by Konopacky and collaborators yielded a separation of 20.3 ± 0.3 AU (3.037×10 ± 45,000,000 km), placing it interior to and coplanar with the inner edge of HR 2562's observed debris disc. Further observations of HR 2562 B by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) supported this, yielding a semi-major axis of 19.0+5.7
−4.4 AU, an orbital period of 71.5+35.7
−23.2 yr, and an orbital eccentricity of 0.63+0.32
−0.23. With a probable orbital inclination of 82.8+2.0
−12.5°, HR 2562 B's misalignment angle with the debris disc is either 7+17
−4° or 15+18
−5°. However, the limited coverage of observations still leaves a wide range of possible orbits; both low-eccentricity, coplanar orbits and high-eccentricity, misaligned orbits would be consistent with observation data. However, a highly misaligned orbit would significantly perturb the disc, suggesting that a low-eccentricity, coplanar solutions are likelier.

Any additional companions around HR 2562 with a mass on the order of 10 M_J should be visible at separations larger than 10 AU, and any companion a few times more massive than Jupiter should be visible to SPHERE's infrared dual-band spectrograph (IRDIS) instrument—thus placing mass restrictions on any additional companions.

Physical properties

HR 2562 B's exact mass is unknown. The brown dwarf was estimated to be 29 ± 15 M_J in 2021. However, subsequent observations placed an upper mass limit of < 18.5 M_J. Its luminosity is about ${\displaystyle {\frac {1}{50000}}}$ solar luminosity. Its spectral type is L7±3.

See also

• PZ Telescopii B, another substellar object with mass slightly below 30 M_J

Notes

1. Obtained with a right ascension of 06 50 01 and a declination of −60° 14′ 56.9″ on this website.
2. The luminosity of HR 2562 B is log(L/L_☉) = −4.62 ± 0.12.

References

1. ^ Konopacky, Quinn M.; Rameau, Julien; Duchêne, Gaspard; Filippazzo, Joseph C.; Godfrey, Paige A. Giorla; Marois, Christian; Nielsen, Eric L.; Pueyo, Laurent; Rafikov, Roman R. (2016). "Discovery of a Substellar Companion to the Nearby Debris Disk Host HR 2562". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 829 (1): L4. arXiv:1608.06660. Bibcode:2016ApJ...829L...4K. doi:10.3847/2041-8205/829/1/L4. ISSN 2041-8205. S2CID 44216698.
2. ^ Zhang, Stella Yimao; et al. (28 April 2023). "Testing the Interaction between a Substellar Companion and a Debris Disk in the HR 2562 System". The Astronomical Journal. 165 (5): 219. arXiv:2302.04893. Bibcode:2023AJ....165..219Z. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/acbafb.
3. ^ Sutlieff, Ben J.; Bohn, Alexander J.; Birkby, Jayne L.; Kenworthy, Matthew A.; Morzinski, Katie M.; Doelman, David S.; Males, Jared R.; Snik, Frans; Close, Laird M.; Hinz, Philip M.; Charbonneau, David (2021). "High-contrast observations of brown dwarf companion HR 2562 B with the vector Apodizing Phase Plate coronagraph". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506 (3): 3224–3238. arXiv:2106.14890. Bibcode:2021MNRAS.506.3224S. doi:10.1093/mnras/stab1893.
4. ^ Mesa, D.; et al. (4 May 2018). "New spectro-photometric characterization of the substellar object HR 2562 B using SPHERE". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 612: A92. arXiv:1712.05828. Bibcode:2018A&A...612A..92M. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201731649.

v t e Constellation of Pictor
List of stars in Pictor Pictor in Chinese astronomy
Stars	Bayer α β γ δ ζ η η θ ι κ λ μ ν μ Dor Variable R S RR SW TU TV TW TX AB AE AK VZ HR 1498 1667 1727 1742 1813 1856 1860 1912 1984 2008 2023 2032 2044 2049 2072 2089 2094 2114 2117 2138 2274 2336 2337 2345 2354 2360 2369 2389 2562 HD 37781 40307 41004 41248 Other 2MASS J05581644–4501559 EBLM J0555-57 NGC 1995 PSR J0437−4715 TOI-270 TOI-1338 WISE 0647−6232
Exoplanets AB Pictoris b β Pictoris b c HD 40307 b c d e f g HR 2562 B LHS 1815 b TOI-1338 b c
Galaxies	NGC 1705 1803 1998 2008 Other Pictor A PKS 0529-549 PKS 0537-441 QSO J0529-4351
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