Sun May Have A Companion? Sleuths?

A substellar solar companion in the Oort cloud?

The following figure illustrates the scatter on the celestial sphere of
outer Oort cloud comet aphelia directions in galactic coordinates. The
pronounced deficiencies at the galactic equator and at the galactic
poles are characteristic of the galactic interaction which is minimal at
these locations. But we also note an anomalous concentration of points
along a "great circle" which passes near the galactic poles. In an
article in the journal Icarus, we have suggested that there is
statistically significant evidence that this concentration, amounting to
an excess of approximately 25%, could be caused by a companion to the
Sun which aids the galactic tide in making Oort cloud comets observable.
The companion is estimated to have a mass of 3-5 MJupiter and a mean
distance at the interaction site of 25000 AU. Its location along the
great circle is not presently predictable and that will present a
problem for detection, but it is potentially observable in the radio
using the VLA and should also be observable in the infrared at 5 microns
using the next generation of space telescopes such as SIRTF and SOFIA.
An object with these properties would be readily seen by WISE
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/%7Ewright/WISE/ (Ned Wright's Wide-Field
Infrared Survey Explorer), one of four missions selected for further
Phase A study in NASA's MIDEX program. The estimated mass of the
companion puts it below the nominal brown dwarf limit (~ 13 MJupiter )
where deuterium fusion can occur and would make it a planet in that
context. However its location in the outer Oort cloud means that it is
not possible that it formed in the protosolar planetary disk. The object
could have been ejected from another stellar system and captured by the
Sun in their complex star forming region.

At the Berlin meeting of "Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2002" (co-authored
by Jack J. Lissauer, link to paper below) we have presented supportive
evidence of the solar companion conjecture. Since the Icarus paper was
published twenty seven new outer Oort cloud comets have been discovered.
The previously noted overpopulated band maintains an excess. This
strengthens the statistical evidence for correlated orbital elements as
predicted by the analysis. The figure below includes the best fit
perturber orbit and can be compared to the corresponding figure in the
Icarus paper which did not include the new data. It is argued that the
correlated data found is highly unlikely to be the result of "bad data"
- which typically reduces real correlations. Nor is it likely to be
spuriously produced by some unspecified "observational selection effect"
- a situation where limitations on our ability to observe comets can
spuriously affect the distributions of the observed data. To date, the
only documented observational selection effect applicable to this data
is the well-known one that comets with large perihelion distances are
less likely to be sufficiently well observed so that their energies (i.
e. semimajor axes) are accurately known. We discuss in these papers why
this selection effect will tend to spuriously reduce the predicted
correlations rather than enhance them. A recent paper ("Biases in
Cometary Catalogues and Planet X", J. Horner and N. W. Evans, MNRAS 335
(3) 641, (2002)) has concluded that a bound Jovian mass companion is a
"possible, perhaps even likely, explanation of the unusual pattern".

Mo
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~jjm9638/
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/...s-nemesis.html

Does this explain all the unusual 'jets' seen near, and coming from the
Sun by SOHO/LASCO?
Is Sun's Binary twin sending Oort Cloud material into the inner solar
system?
Mo
http://photobucket.com/albums/v376/MiddleAgedMom/
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/sun.htm
http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=by2r22xg

Is this theoretical Companion star the elusive Planet X or perhaps a
'failed' Red Dwarf star known as a 'Brown Dwarf' star?
Mo
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/...-spherule.html
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~jjm9638/MS7292.pdf
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~jjm963...02/acm2002.htm
http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.o...research.shtml

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A substellar solar companion in the Oort cloud?

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