GRAVITY K-band spectroscopy of HD 206893 B: brown dwarf or exoplanet

Abstract

We aim to reveal the nature of the reddest known substellar companion HD 206893 B by studying its near-infrared colors and spectral morphology and by investigating its orbital motion. We fit atmospheric models for giant planets and brown dwarfs and perform spectral retrievals with petitRADTRANS and ATMO on the observed GRAVITY, SPHERE, and GPI spectra of HD 206893 B. To recover its unusual spectral features, we include additional extinction by high-altitude dust clouds made of enstatite grains in the atmospheric model fits. We also infer the orbital parameters of HD 206893 B by combining the $\sim 100\mu \text{as}$ precision astrometry from GRAVITY with data from the literature and constrain the mass and position of HD 206893 C based on the Gaia proper motion anomaly of the system. The extremely red color and the very shallow $1.4\mu \text{m}$ water absorption feature of HD 206893 B can be fit well with the adapted atmospheric models and spectral retrievals. Altogether, our analysis suggests an age of $\sim 3$-$300\text{Myr}$ and a mass of $\sim 5$-$30{\text{M}}_{\text{Jup}}$ for HD 206893 B, which is consistent with previous estimates but extends the parameter space to younger and lower-mass objects. The GRAVITY astrometry points to an eccentric orbit ($e=0.29_{-0.11}^{+0.06}$) with a mutual inclination of $<34.4\text{deg}$ with respect to the debris disk of the system. While HD 206893 B could in principle be a planetary-mass companion, this possibility hinges on the unknown influence of the inner companion on the mass estimate of $10_{-4}^{+5}{\text{M}}_{\text{Jup}}$ from radial velocity and Gaia as well as a relatively small but significant Argus moving group membership probability of $\sim 61\%$. However, we find that if the mass of HD 206893 B is $<30{\text{M}}_{\text{Jup}}$, then the inner companion HD 206893 C should have a mass between $\sim 8$-$15{\text{M}}_{\text{Jup}}$.

arXiv comment28 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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