The current population of benchmark brown dwarfs
Abstract
The number of brown dwarfs (BDs) now identified tops 700. Yet our understanding of these cool objects is still lacking, and models are struggling to accurately reproduce observations. What is needed is a method of calibrating the models, BDs whose properties (e.g. age, mass, distance, metallicity) that can be independently determined can provide such calibration. The ability to calculate properties based on observables is set to be of vital importance if we are to be able to measure the properties of fainter, more distant populations of BDs that near-future surveys will reveal, for which ground based spectroscopic studies will become increasingly difficult. We present here the state of the current population of age benchmark brown dwarfs.
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@article{arxiv.0912.5339,
title = {The current population of benchmark brown dwarfs},
author = {A. C. Day-Jones and D. J. Pinfield and M. T. Ruiz and B. Burningham and Z. H. Zhang and H. R. A. Jones and M. C. Galvez-Ortiz and J. Gallardo and J. R. A. Clarke and J. S. Jenkins},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.5339},
year = {2015}
}
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2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the conference proceedings "New Technologies for Probing the Diversity of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets", Shanghai, 19-24 July, 2009