DH Tauri

DH Tauri, also known as DH Tau, is a type M star, located 140 parsecs (456.619 light years) away. It forms a binary system with DI Tauri 15″ away, and has a substellar companion, either a brown dwarf or massive exoplanet.

DH Tauri

DH Tauri and the b companion (lower left) with the Very Large Telescope Credit: ESO VLT SPHERE; Van Holstein et al.; Processing: Meli_thev
Observation data Epoch J2000.0      Equinox J2000.0
Constellation	Taurus
Right ascension	04h 29m 41.558s[1]
Declination	+26° 32′ 58.27″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V)	13.1[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type	M0-M1Ve(T)[3]
Variable type	T Tau[3]
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ)	RA: +7.065[4] mas/yr Dec.: -20.699[4] mas/yr
Parallax (π)	7.3880 ± .0593 mas[4]
Distance	441 ± 4 ly (135 ± 1 pc)
Details
Mass	0.41[5] M☉
Radius	1.26[5] R☉
Luminosity	0.22[5] L☉
Temperature	3,751[4] K
Age	3.16[5] Myr
Other designations
DH Tau, WDS J04297+2633B, IRAS 04267+2626, 2MASS J04294155+2632582
Database references
SIMBAD	data

Characteristics

DH Tauri is a type M, or red dwarf star, one of the most common types of star in the Milky Way.^[6] It has an apparent magnitude of 13.71 and temperature of 3,751 K. DH Tauri has a mass of 0.41 M_☉ and an estimated radius of 1.26 R_☉, which is unusually large for a red dwarf.

The companion DH Tauri B or b has a mass estimated to be between eight M_J and 50 M_J, making it either a super-Jupiter or brown dwarf.^[7][8] Other sources give a mass as high as 0.03 M_☉, with a bolometric luminosity of 0.01 L_☉.^[9] The spectral type has been classified as M7.5^[9] or M9.25.^[10] The companion has detected water vapor and carbon monoxide in its atmosphere and has a rotational velocity of 9.6 ± 0.7 km/s. This is between 9 and 15% of the breakup speed of DH Tau B. This low rotation is in agreement with magnetic coupling to a circumplanetary disk in the late stages of accretion, which reduces angular momentum of the companion.^[11] The companion, while its host star still having a protoplanetary disk, is still accreting material, being surrounded by a circumsubstellar disk (possibly a circumplanetary disk, depending on its formation history).^[12] It is potentially orbited by a smaller candidate companion DH Tauri Bb (possibly an exomoon) with 1 M_J, and a mass ratio with respect to the brown dwarf of one-tenth.^[13]

The DH Tauri planetary system^[14]

Companion (in order from star)	Mass	Semimajor axis (AU)	Orbital period (days)	Eccentricity	Inclination	Radius
b	11±3 MJ	330	120.450	—	—	2.7±0.8 RJ

References

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3. Samus, N. N.; Durlevich, O. V.; et al. (2009). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2013)". VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/GCVS. Originally Published in: 2009yCat....102025S. 1: B/gcvs. Bibcode:2009yCat....102025S.
4. Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
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7. Xuan, Jerry W.; Bryan, Marta L.; Knutson, Heather A.; Bowler, Brendan P.; Morley, Caroline V.; Benneke, Björn (2020). "A Rotation Rate for the Planetary-mass Companion DH Tau B". The Astronomical Journal. 159 (3): 97. arXiv:2001.01759. Bibcode:2020AJ....159...97X. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab67c4. S2CID 210023665.
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9. Ward-Duong, K.; Patience, J.; Bulger, J.; Van Der Plas, G.; Ménard, F.; Pinte, C.; Jackson, A. P.; Bryden, G.; Turner, N. J.; Harvey, P.; Hales, A.; De Rosa, R. J. (2018). "The Taurus Boundary of Stellar/Substellar (TBOSS) Survey. II. Disk Masses from ALMA Continuum Observations". The Astronomical Journal. 155 (2): 54. arXiv:1712.07669. Bibcode:2018AJ....155...54W. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aaa128. S2CID 55142673.
10. Bonnefoy, M.; Chauvin, G.; Lagrange, A. -M.; Rojo, P.; Allard, F.; Pinte, C.; Dumas, C.; Homeier, D. (2014). "A library of near-infrared integral field spectra of young M-L dwarfs". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 562: A127. arXiv:1306.3709. Bibcode:2014A&A...562A.127B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201118270. S2CID 53064211.
11. Xuan, Jerry W.; Bryan, Marta L.; Knutson, Heather A.; Bowler, Brendan P.; Morley, Caroline V.; Benneke, Björn (2020-03-01). "A Rotation Rate for the Planetary-mass Companion DH Tau b". The Astronomical Journal. 159 (3): 97. arXiv:2001.01759. Bibcode:2020AJ....159...97X. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab67c4. ISSN 0004-6256.
12. Van Holstein, R. G.; Stolker, T.; Jensen-Clem, R.; Ginski, C.; Milli, J.; De Boer, J.; Girard, J. H.; Wahhaj, Z.; Bohn, A. J.; Millar-Blanchaer, M. A.; Benisty, M.; Bonnefoy, M.; Chauvin, G.; Dominik, C.; Hinkley, S.; Keller, C. U.; Keppler, M.; Langlois, M.; Marino, S.; Ménard, F.; Perrot, C.; Schmidt, T. O. B.; Vigan, A.; Zurlo, A.; Snik, F. (2021). "A survey of the linear polarization of directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarf companions with SPHERE-IRDIS. First polarimetric detections revealing disks around DH Tau B and GSC 6214-210 B". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 647: 647. arXiv:2101.04033. Bibcode:2021A&A...647A..21V. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039290. S2CID 231573543.
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