New wide stellar companions of exoplanet host stars

Abstract

We present seven new widely separated companions of exoplanet host stars, detected via common proper motion, whose companionship could be confirmed with photometry, and in two cases also with follow-up spectroscopy. We derive the masses and projected separations of all detected companions, among them HD 107148 B, a further wide white dwarf companion of an exoplanet host star. The current multiplicity rate of the exoplanet host stars is found to be about 13 per cent. © 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.