OASIS Survey Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of HIP 71618 B: A Substellar Companion Suitable for the Roman Coronagraph Technology Demonstration*

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We present the OASIS survey program discovery of a substellar companion orbiting the young A1V star HIP 71618, detected using precision astrometry from Gaia and Hipparcos and high-contrast imaging with SCExAO/CHARIS and Keck/NIRC2. Atmospheric modeling favors a spectral type of M5–M8 and a temperature of ∼2700 ± 100 K. Dynamical modeling constrains HIP 71618 B’s mass to be 60 − 21 + 27 M Jup or 65 − 29 + 54 M Jup , depending on the adopted companion mass prior. It has a nearly-edge-on 11 au orbit with high eccentricity. HIP 71618 B will be located within the Roman Coronagraph’s dark-hole region during the instrument’s technological demonstration phase. A high-signal-to-noise-ratio detection of HIP 71618 B at 575 nm would demonstrate a 5 σ contrast of 10 −7 or better. The system is also located within or very close to the Roman Coronagraph’s Continuous Viewing Zone—near multiple candidate reference stars for dark-hole digging—and its primary is bright ( V ≈ 5). The suitability of HIP 71618 as a potential Roman Coronagraph target for demonstrating the instrument’s core requirement (TTR5) should motivate the timely deep vetting of candidate reference stars.
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  • National Science Foundation (2408647)
  • NASA ∣ SMD ∣ Astrophysics Division (80NSSC24K0943)

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