An Interferometric Search for Bright Companions to 51 Pegasi
Abstract
We report on a near-infrared, long-baseline interferometric search for luminous companions to the star 51 Pegasi conducted with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer. Our data is completely consistent with a single-star hypothesis. We find no evidence to suggest a luminous companion to 51 Pegasi, and can exclude a companion brighter than a of 4.27 at the 99% confidence level for the 4.2-day orbital period indicated by spectroscopic measurements. This corresponds to an upper limit in the companion MK of 7.30, in turn implying a main-sequence companion mass less than 0.22 M.
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