Multiples among B stars in the Scorpius-Centaurus association

Abstract

We discuss the properties of companions to B stars in the Scorpius-Centaurus association (age ~15 Myr, 181 B-stars). We gathered available data combining high contrast imaging samples with evidence of companions from Gaia, from eclipsing binaries, and from spectroscopy. We evaluated the completeness of the binary search and estimated the mass and semi-major axis for all detected companions. These data provide a complete sample of stellar secondaries for separation >3 au, and they are highly informative as to closer companions. We found evidence for 200 companions around 181 stars. The fraction of single star is 15.2\pm 4.1% for stars with M_A>3.5 Msun while it is 31.5\pm 5.9% for lower-mass stars. The median semi-major axis of the orbits of the companions is smaller for B than in A stars, confirming a turn-over previously found for OB stars. The mass distribution of the very wide (a>1000 au) and closer companions is different. Very few companions of massive stars M_A>5.0 Msun have a mass below solar and even fewer are M stars with a semi-major axis <1000 au. The scarcity of low-mass companions extends throughout the whole sample. Most early B stars are in compact systems with massive secondaries, while lower-mass stars are mainly in wider systems with a larger spread in mass ratios. We interpret our results as the formation of secondaries with a semi-major axis <1000 au (about 80% of the total) by fragmentation of the disk of the primary and selective mass accretion on the secondaries. The observed trends with primary mass may be explained by a more prolonged phase of accretion episodes on the disk and by a more effective inward migration. We detected twelve new stellar companions from the BEAST survey and of a new BD companion at 9.6 arcsec from HIP74752 using Gaia data, and we discuss the cases of possible BD and low-mass stellar companions to HIP59173, HIP62058, and HIP64053.

arXiv commentAccepted on Astronomy and Astrophysics, 31 pages, 24 figures

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