Binary Brown dwarfs around Epsilon Indi

[Evil Dr Ganymede]

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/b ... 30919.html
(full paper can be found at: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309256 )

There's a table at the end of the paper (top of page 6) with the physical stats- apparently they're 1500 AU from Epsilon Indi, and the pair are separated by 2.65 AU.

Anyone fancy drawing that up in Celestia?

[Ynjevi]

Great discovery

Binary systems are great when we need to determine masses for those bodies. And when mass is known, many other physical properties can be deduced.

[granthutchison]

Anyone fancy drawing that up in Celestia?

I've revised the definition for Eps Ind B in my NearbyStars add-on, to include Eps Ind Bb in a 16-year orbit. (Unfortunately, since Celestia doesn't support barycentres in stellar locations, I can't put the two components in mutual orbit.)
See the following URL for the download:
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/hutchison/nearstars.html

Grant