Discovery of Five Very Low Mass Close Binaries, Resolved in the Visible with Lucky Imaging

N. M. Law, S. T. Hodgkin, C. D. Mackay

We survey a sample of 32 M5-M8 stars with distance < 40pc for companions with separations between 0.1 arcsec and 1.5 arcsec and with Delta m_i <5. We find five new VLM binaries wit…