Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion to the Accelerating Star HIP 53005 with Strongly Conflicting Mass Estimates

Taichi Uyama, Thayne Currie, Jerry W. Xuan +22

We present the discovery of a low-mass companion located at $\ddot{I}$ $\sim$ 0\farcs{}85 ($r_{\mathrm{proj}}\approx 62au$) from the early-type 1.2 Gyr-old star HIP 53005 using direct imagi…