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Light Time Effects in Pulsating Variables and Brown Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Jiang Shi Yang*
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road 20A, Beijing 100012, China

Abstract

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Dwarf cepheids DY Her, AD CMi, and BE Lyn show light time effects, which may be caused by orbital motion due to a low mass unseen companion. Their mass is probably between 0.015 to 0.07 M, so they may be brown dwarfs.

Type
Part 6. Searches for Substellar Companions
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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