Improved Dynamical Masses for Six Brown Dwarf Companions Using Hipparcos and Gaia EDR3

Abstract

We present comprehensive orbital analyses and dynamical masses for the substellar companions Gl~229~B, Gl~758~B, HD~13724~B, HD~19467~B, HD~33632~Ab, and HD~72946~B. Our dynamical fits incorporate radial velocities, relative astrometry, and most importantly calibrated Hipparcos-Gaia EDR3 accelerations. For HD~33632~A and HD~72946 we perform three-body fits that account for their outer stellar companions. We present new relative astrometry of Gl~229~B with Keck/NIRC2, extending its observed baseline to 25 years. We obtain a $<$1\% mass measurement of $71.4\pm 0.6M_{\mathrm{Jup}}$ for the first T dwarf Gl~229~B and a 1.2\% mass measurement of its host star ($0.579\pm 0.007M_{\odot }$) that agrees with the high-mass-end of the M dwarf mass-luminosity relation. We perform a homogeneous analysis of the host stars' ages and use them, along with the companions' measured masses and luminosities, to test substellar evolutionary models. Gl~229~B is the most discrepant, as models predict that an object this massive cannot cool to such a low luminosity within a Hubble time, implying that it may be an unresolved binary. The other companions are generally consistent with models, except for HD~13724~B that has a host-star activity age 3.8$\sigma$ older than its substellar cooling age. Examining our results in context with other mass-age-luminosity benchmarks, we find no trend with spectral type but instead note that younger or lower-mass brown dwarfs are over-luminous compared to models, while older or higher-mass brown dwarfs are under-luminous. The presented mass measurements for some companions are so precise that the stellar host ages, not the masses, limit the analysis.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in AJ. References updated in version 2. See the journal version for the full quality figures. Figure sets and the MCMC chains (reduced to just 1000 samples however) are included with the journal version of the article, and pre-publication at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_A8QYn9NyPgmGqJaY5sMHyT_wAS3uRRK?usp=sharing

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