Kavli Affiliate: Bruce Macintosh
| Summary:
We report the detection of a new brown dwarf companion to HIP 17453 A, a chemically peculiar A0V star located at a distance of 81 pc. HIP 17453 A was observed with high-resolution adaptive optics imaging using the Near-Infrared Camera 2 on the Keck II telescope as part of the Companions to B and A Stars Snapshot (C-BASS) survey over a ten-year baseline, revealing the presence of a companion with proper motion consistent with the primary. We estimate the age of the HIP 17453 system as 280 $pm$ 125 Myr, and with follow-up intermediate resolution (R~1800) spectroscopic observations with the Gemini Near Infra-Red Spectrograph (GNIRS) on the Gemini-North telescope, we found the spectrum of HIP 17453 B to be consistent with a spectral type of L2 $pm$ 1. Through interpolation of Sonora Diamondback evolutionary models, we calculate an effective temperature of $1953^+84_-78$ K and mass of $53^+10_-8$ $M_Jup$ for HIP 17453 B, which corresponds to a mass ratio of $q = 0.024 pm 0.004$ for the HIP 17453 system. With its intermediate mass and young age, HIP 17453 B joins a small set of benchmark brown dwarf companions around early-type stars that are suitable for follow-up atmospheric and evolutionary studies.
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