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Using the near-infrared spectrometer SpeX and its slit-viewing camera at the IRTF, I have resolved a low-mass member of the Upper Scorpius OB association into a double star. From K-band images of the pair, DENIS-P J161833.2-251750.4 A and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. L. Luhman

Proper motion measurements of the cool and ultracool populations in the Upper Scorpius OB association are crucial to confirm membership and to identify possible run-away objects. We cross-match samples of photometrically selected and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Herve Bouy , Eduardo L. Martin

When determining absolute ages of identifiably young stellar populations, results strongly depend on which stars are studied. Cooler (K, M) stars typically yield ages that are systematically younger than warmer (A, F, G) stars by a factor…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Gregory A. Feiden

We present mid-infrared spectra between 5.2 and 38 microns for 26 disk-bearing members of the ~5 Myr old Upper Scorpius OB association obtained with the Infrared Spectrograph onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope. We find clear evidence for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. E. Dahm , John M. Carpenter

The improved astrometry precision of Gaia-eDR3 allows us to perform a detailed study of the Upper Scorpius OB association and revisit its spatial, kinematic, and age substructure. We achieve this by combining clustering techniques and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-07 Geovanny Briceño-Morales , Julio Chanamé

We searched for binary companions to 20 young brown dwarfs in the Upper Scorpius association (145 pc, 5 Myr, nearest OB association) with the the Laser Guide Star adaptive optics system and the facility infrared camera NIRC2 on the 10 m…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Beth Biller , Katelyn Allers , Michael Liu , Laird Close , Trent Dupuy

We present results of a spectroscopic survey for new K- and M-type members of Scorpius-Centaurus (Sco-Cen), the nearest OB Association (~100-200 pc). Using an X-ray, proper motion and color-magnitude selected sample, we obtained spectra for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Mark J. Pecaut , Eric E. Mamajek

We present photometric, astrometric, and spectroscopic observations of USco160611.9-193532 AB, a candidate ultrawide (~1600 AU), low-mass (M_tot~0.4 M_sun) multiple system in the nearby OB association Upper Scorpius. We conclude that both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Adam L. Kraus , Lynne A. Hillenbrand

We present new z- and H-band photometry and proper motion measurements for the five candidate very-low-mass T-type objects we recently proposed to be members of the nearest OB association to the Sun, Upper Scorpius. These new data fail to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Lodieu , V. D. Ivanov , P. D. Dobbie

This paper presents the results of a search for brown dwarfs in the Upper Scorpius Association using data from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Galactic Cluster Survey. Candidate young brown dwarfs were first chosen by their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. Dawson , A. Scholz , T. P. Ray

The Upper-Scorpius association (5-11 Myr) contains a unique population of low-mass (M<30 MJup) brown-dwarfs. The detailed relative characterization of their physical properties (mass, radius, temperature, composition, ongoing accretion)…

We report the results of a deep photometric search for planets and brown dwarfs in the nearby young OB Upper Scorpius association. We obtained optical (I) and near-infrared (JKs) images around nine very low-mass stars and brown dwarf member…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. T. Costado , V. J. S. Bejar , J. A. Caballero , R. Rebolo , J. Acosta-Pulido , A. Manchado

Upper Scorpius is a subgroup of the nearest OB association, Scorpius--Centaurus. Its young age makes it an important association to study star and planet formation. We present parallaxes to 52 low mass stars in Upper Scorpius, 28 of which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Jessica Donaldson , Alycia Weinberger , Jonathan Gagné , Alan Boss , Sandy Keiser

Determining the mechanisms that drive the evolution of protoplanetary disks is a necessary step to understand how planets form. Here we measured the mass accretion rate for young stellar objects at age >5 Myr, a critical test for the…

We present the results of a proper motion wide-field near-infrared survey of the entire Upper Sco (USco) association (~160 square degrees) released as part of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky (UKIDSS) Galactic Clusters Survey (GCS) Data Release…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Lodieu

We present deep 1.2 millimeter photometry of 37 stars in the young (5 Myr) Upper Scorpius OB association, sensitive to ~4 x 10^-3 Mjup of cool millimeter dust. Disks around four low- and solar-mass stars are detected, as well as one debris…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Geoffrey S. Mathews , Jonathan P. Williams , Francois Ménard , Neil Phillips , Gaspard Duchêne , Christophe Pinte

We report the results of mid-IR observations with VISIR at the VLT of 10 ultracool dwarfs members of the nearby Upper Scorpius OB association in four filters ranging between 8.59 (PAH1) to 12.8 $\mu$m (Ne II), and one brown dwarf with…

(Abridged) Our aim is to identify analogues of gas giant planets, as companions at wide separations of very young stars. To identify these objects, we cross correlated the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA)…

The Upper Scorpius OB association is the nearest region of recent massive star formation and thus an important benchmark for investigations concerning stellar evolution and planet formation timescales. We present nine EBs in Upper Scorpius,…

We have completed an optical spectroscopic survey of an unbiased, extinction-limited sample of candidate young stars covering 1.3 square degrees of the Rho Ophiuchi star forming region. While infrared, X-ray, and optical surveys of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Kristen L. Erickson , Bruce A. Wilking , Michael R. Meyer , John G. Robinson , Lauren N. Stephenson