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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Luhman, K L
• Robberto, M
• Tan, J C
• Andersen, M
• Gabellini, M Giulia Ubeira
• Manara, C F
• Platais, I
• Ubeda, L

Titel

New Evidence for the Dynamical Decay of a Multiple System in the Orion Kleinmann–Low Nebula

Ist Teil von

• Astrophysical journal. Letters, 2017-03, Vol.838 (1), p.L3-L3

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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• We have measured astrometry for members of the Orion Nebula Cluster with images obtained in 2015 with the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. By comparing those data to previous measurements with the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer on Hubble in 1998, we have discovered that a star in the Kleinmann-Low Nebula, source x from Lonsdale et al., is moving with an unusually high proper motion of 29 mas yr super(?1), which corresponds to 55 km s super(?1) at the distance of Orion. Previous radio observations have found that three other stars in the Kleinmann-Low Nebula (the Becklin-Neugebauer object and sources I and n) have high proper motions (5-14 mas yr super(?1)) and were near a single location ~540 years ago, and thus may have been members of a multiple system that dynamically decayed. The proper motion of source x is consistent with ejection from that same location 540 years ago, which provides strong evidence that the dynamical decay did occur and that the runaway star BN originated in the Kleinmann-Low Nebula rather than the nearby Trapezium cluster. However, our constraint on the motion of source n is significantly smaller than the most recent radio measurement, which indicates that it did not participate in the event that ejected the other three stars.