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We present the discovery of a bright (J = 13.1 mag) nearby L6 dwarf found in a search for L-type ultracool subdwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7. SDSS J141624.08+134826.7 exhibits blue near-infrared colors compared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Brendan P. Bowler , Michael C. Liu , Trent J. Dupuy

We present a near-infrared photometric search for unresolved substellar companions and debris disks around white dwarfs in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Large Area Survey. We cross-correlate the SDSS DR4 and McCook & Sion catalogues of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. R. Steele , M. R. Burleigh , P. D. Dobbie , R. F. Jameson , M. A. Barstow , R. P. Satterthwaite

We present the culmination of our near-infrared survey of the optically spectroscopically identified white dwarf stars from the McCook & Sion catalog, conducted using photometric data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey final All Sky Data…

We present the first results of the ongoing Canada-France Brown Dwarfs Survey-InfraRed, hereafter CFBDSIR, a Near InfraRed extension to the optical wide-field survey CFBDS. Our final objectives are to constrain ultracool atmosphere physics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Delorme , L. Albert , T. Forveille , E. Artigau , X. Delfosse , C. Reylé , C. J. Willott , E. Bertin , S. M. Wilkins , F. Allard , D. Arzoumanian

Context: L-type ultra-cool dwarfs and brown dwarfs have cloudy atmospheres that could host weather-like phenomena. The detection of photometric or spectral variability would provide insight into unresolved atmospheric heterogeneities, such…

Large amount of observational spectroscopic data are recently available from different observational projects, like Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It's become more urgent to identify white dwarfs stars based on data itself i.e. without modelling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-14 Mirosław Należyty , Agnieszka Majczyna , Anna Ciechanowska , Jerzy Madej

We have conducted a 4030-square-deg near-infrared proper motion survey using multi-epoch data from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). We find 2778 proper motion candidates, 647 of which are not listed in SIMBAD. After comparison to DSS…

(abridged) We report the discovery of a very cool brown dwarf, ULAS J003402.77-005206.7 (ULAS J0034-00), identified in UKIDSS DR1. We provide optical, near-infrared, and mid-infrared photometry of the source, and two near-infrared spectra.…

Massive far-red and infrared imaging surveys in different bandpasses are the main contributors to the discovery of brown dwarfs. The Virtual Observatory represents an adequate framework to handle these vast datasets efficiently and filter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Aberasturi , E. Solano , E. L. Martin

We present a sample of 484 L dwarfs, 210 of which are newly discovered from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 spectroscopic database. We combine this sample with known L dwarfs to investigate their $izJHK_S$ colors. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sarah J. Schmidt , Andrew A. West , Suzanne L. Hawley , J. Sebastian Pineda

A complete well-defined sample of ultracool dwarfs is one of the key science programs of the Pan-STARRS 1 optical survey telescope (PS1). Here we combine PS1 commissioning data with 2MASS to conduct a proper motion search…

We report the discovery of three L dwarfs in the solar vicinity within 30 parsecs. These objects were originally found as proper motion objects from a combination of R and I photographic plates measured as part of the SuperCOSMOS Sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Lodieu , R. -D. Scholz , M. J. McCaughrean

The evolution of brown dwarfs from L to T spectral types is one of the least understood aspects of the ultracool population, partly for lack of a large, well-defined, and well-characterized sample in the L/T transition. To improve the…

The Canada-France Brown Dwarf Survey is a wide eld survey for cool brown dwarfs conducted with the MegaCam camera on the CFHT telescope. Our objectives are to nd ultracool brown dwarfs and to constrain the eld brown dwarf mass function from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Reyle , P. Delorme , X. Delfosse , T. Forveille , C. Willott , L. Albert , E. Artigau

We present the discovery of seven new T dwarfs identified in the Two Micron All Sky Survey. Low-resolution (R$\sim$150) 0.8--2.5 micron spectroscopy obtained with the IRTF SpeX instrument reveal the characteristic H$_2$O and CH$_4$ bands in…

We present astrometric measurements of eleven nearby ultracool brown dwarfs of spectral types Y and late-T, based on imaging observations from a variety of space-based and ground-based telescopes. These measurements have been used to…

We have identified eight to ten new cool white dwarfs from the Large Area Survey (LAS) Data Release 9 of the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). The data set was paired with the Sloan Digital Sky…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-02 P. -E. Tremblay , S. K. Leggett , N. Lodieu , B. Freytag , P. Bergeron , J. S. Kalirai , H. -G. Ludwig

The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer onboard the Euclid space mission has obtained near-infrared (NIR) slitless spectra of millions of objects, including hundreds of ultracool dwarfs. Euclid observations retrieve images and spectra…

Aims: Low-resolution optical spectroscopic observations for 78 very low-mass star and brown dwarf candidates that have been photometrically selected using the DENIS survey point source catalogue. Methods: Spectral types are derived for them…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. L. Martin , N. Phan-Bao , M. Bessell , X. Delfosse , T. Forveille , A. Magazzu , C. Reyle , H. Bouy , R. Tata

We present JHK photometry and spectroscopy for a sample of newly identified L and T dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and known dwarfs from the SDSS and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). Spectral classification has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. R. Knapp , S. K. Leggett , X. Fan , M. S. Marley , T. R. Geballe , D. A. Golimowski