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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2024
Exploring the low-mass end of the companion mass function around massive stars is of crucial importance to constrain massive star formation theories. We present a high-contrast imaging study of 20 O- and early B-type stars in the Scorpius OB1 association. From the analysis of VLT/SPHERE data, we identify a total of 789 sources. The data probe the brown dwarf regime around massive stars, resulting in the discovery of large-separation multiple systems with mass-ratios as low as 0.001 (comparable to Jupiter-Sun mass-ratio).