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We report the discovery of ULAS J131610.28+075553.0, a sdT6.5 dwarf in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey 2 epoch proper motion catalogue. This object displays significant spectral peculiarity, with the largest yet seen deviations from T6 and T7…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Ben Burningham , L. Smith , C. V. Cardoso , P. W. Lucas , A. J. Burgasser , H. R. A. Jones , R. L. Smart

Through a previous analysis of multi-epoch astrometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), I identified WISE J085510.83-071442.5 as a new high proper motion object. By combining astrometry from WISE and the Spitzer Space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 K. L. Luhman

We report the discovery of the L dwarf WISE J174102.78$-$464225.5, that was discovered as part of a search for nearby L dwarfs using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The distinct triangular peak of the H-band portion of its…

We identify proper motion objects in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF) using the optical data from the original UDF program in 2004 and the near-infrared data from the 128-orbit UDF 2012 campaign. There are 12 sources brighter than I=27 mag…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Mukremin Kilic , Alexandros Gianninas , Ted von Hippel

We report the discovery of three very late T dwarfs in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Third Data Release: ULAS J101721.40+011817.9 (ULAS1017), ULAS J123828.51+095351.3 (ULAS1238) and ULAS J133553.45+113005.2 (ULAS1335).We…

We report on photometric and spectroscopic observations of white dwarf companions to four binary radio millisecond pulsars, leading to the discovery of companions to PSRs J0614-3329, J1231-1411 and J2017+0603. We place limits on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 C. G. Bassa , J. Antoniadis , F. Camilo , I. Cognard , D. Koester , M. Kramer , S. R. Ransom , B. W. Stappers

The New Luyten Two-Tenths catalog contains a large number of high-proper motion white dwarf candidates that remain to be spectroscopically confirmed. We present new spectroscopic observations as well as SDSS archival spectra of 49 white…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Adela Kawka , Stephane Vennes

We define an enhanced spectral classification scheme for M dwarf stars, and use it to derive spectral classification of 104 northern stars with proper motions larger than 0.5"/yr which we discovered in a survey of high proper motion stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sebastien Lepine , R. Michael Rich , Michael M. Shara

A preliminary $BVRIJHK$ analysis of the white dwarfs SSSPM J2231$-$7514 and SSSPM J2231$-$7515 is presented. Although both stars were reported to have $T_{\rm eff}<4000$ K, the analysis here indicates $T_{\rm eff}\approx4250$ K for both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Farihi

With a spectral type of T10, UGPS J072227.51-054031.2 is one of the coolest objects known to date in the solar neighborhood. Multiple systems are relatively common among early and mid-T dwarfs. We search for faint and close companions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 H. Bouy , J. Girard , E. L. Martin , N. Huelamo , P. W. Lucas

We present Gemini GMOS and Magellan LDSS-3 optical spectroscopy for seven ultracool subdwarf candidates color-selected from the Two Micron All Sky Survey. Five are identified as late-type subdwarfs, including the previously reported sdM9.5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Adam J. Burgasser , Kelle L. Cruz , J. Davy Kirkpatrick

We report the discovery of two L dwarfs (the new spectral class defined for dwarfs cooler than the M type) in a two-epoch CCD proper motion survey of 413 square degrees, complemented by infrared photometry from DENIS. One of them has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 B. Goldman , X. Delfosse , T. Forveille , C. Afonso et al , : , the EROS collaboration

AIMS: We selected the bluest object, WISE~J0725$-$2351, from Luhman's new high proper motion (HPM) survey based on observations with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) for spectroscopic follow-up observations. Our aim was to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 R. -D. Scholz , U. Heber , C. Heuser , E. Ziegerer , S. Geier , F. Niederhofer

Aims. We demonstrate the feasibility of determining parallaxes for nearby objects with theWide Field Camera on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) using the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey as a first epoch. We determine physical…

We report new spectroscopic results, obtained with UKIRT/CGS4, of a sample of 14 candidate ultracool dwarfs selected from the DENIS (Deep Near-Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky) database. A further object, selected from the 2MASS Second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. R. Kendall , X. Delfosse , E. L. Martin , T. Forveille

In this work, we identify 734 ultracool dwarfs with a spectral type of M6 or later, including one L0. Of this sample, 625 were studied spectroscopically for the first time. All of these ultracool dwarfs are within 360~pc, with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 You-Fen Wang , A-Li Luo , Wen-Ping Chen , Hugh R. A. Jones , Bing Du , Yin-Bi Li , Shuo Zhang , Zhong-Rui Bai , Xiao Kong , Yan-Xin Guo

We present parallax observations and a detailed model atmosphere analysis of 54 cool and ultracool ($T_{\rm eff}$ < 4000 K) white dwarfs (WDs) in the solar neighbourhood. For the first time, a large number of cool and ultracool WDs have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Gianninas , B. Curd , John R. Thorstensen , Mukremin Kilic , P. Bergeron , Jeff J. Andrews , Paul Canton , M. A. Agüeros

We present the results of photometric, astrometric, and spectroscopic follow-up of L dwarf candidates identified in the Hyades cluster by Hogan et al. (2008). We obtained low-resolution optical spectroscopy with the OSIRIS spectrograph on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 N. Lodieu , S. Boudreault , V. J. S. Bejar

We present {\it Spitzer}/IRAC observations of the L5 dwarf, 2MASSI J1315309-264951 (2M1315). This ultracool dwarf is known to display strong emission in the H$\alpha$ line. The SED for this object does not show any IR excess, that would…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Basmah Riaz , John E. Gizis

We have used Pan-STARRS1 to discover an extremely red late-L dwarf, which has (J-K)_MKO = 2.84 and (J-K)_2MASS = 2.78, making it the reddest known field dwarf and second only to 2MASS J1207-39b among substellar companions. Near-IR…