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We present the results of a search for companions to young brown dwarfs in the Taurus and Chamaeleon I star forming regions (1/2-3 Myr). We have used WFPC2 on board HST to obtain F791W and F850LP images of 47 members of these regions that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 K. O. Todorov , K. L. Luhman , Q. M. Konopacky , K. K. McLeod , D. Apai , A. M. Ghez , I. Pascucci , M. Robberto

We report the discovery of a wide (135+/-25 AU), unusually blue L5 companion 2MASS J17114559+4028578 to the nearby M4.5 dwarf G 203-50 as a result of a targeted search for common proper motion pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacqueline Radigan , David Lafrenière , Ray Jayawardhana , René Doyon

The Stellar Planet Survey is an ongoing astrometric search for giant planets and brown dwarfs around a sample of about 30 M-dwarfs. We have discovered several low-mass companions by measuring the motion of our target stars relative to their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Steven H. Pravdo , Stuart B. Shaklan , James Lloyd

We report on the characterization of a nearby (d = 11.2 pc) ultracool L dwarf (WISE J192512.78+070038.8; hereafter W1925) identified as a faint (G = 20.0) high proper motion (0.22"/yr) object in the Gaia Data Releases 1 and 2. A…

We present the serendipitous discovery of a late T-type brown dwarf candidate in JWST NIRCam observations of the Early Release Science Abell 2744 parallel field. The discovery was enabled by the sensitivity of JWST at 4~$\mu$m wavelengths…

We have combined new I, J, H, and Ks imaging of portions of the Chamaeleon II, Lupus I, and Ophiuchus star-forming clouds with 3.6 to 24 micron imaging from the Spitzer Legacy Program, "From Molecular Clouds to Planet Forming Disks", to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. N. Allers , J. E. Kessler-Silacci , L. A. Cieza , D. T. Jaffe

We report the detection of radio emission and orbital motion from the nearby star-brown dwarf binary WISE J072003.20-084651.2AB. Radio observations across the 4.5-6.5 GHz band with the Very Large Array identify at the position of the system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 Adam J. Burgasser , Carl Melis , Jacob Todd , Christopher R. Gelino , Gregg Hallinan , Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi

We present results from a high-contrast adaptive optics imaging search for giant planets and brown dwarfs (>1 MJup) around 122 newly identified nearby (<40 pc) young M dwarfs. Half of our targets are younger than 135 Myr and 90% are younger…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Brendan P. Bowler , Michael C. Liu , Evgenya L. Shkolnik , Motohide Tamura

Aims: Our aim is to detect and classify previously overlooked brown dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood. Methods: We performed a proper motion search among bright sources observed with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) that are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Ralf-Dieter Scholz , Gabriel Bihain , Jesper Storm

The survey of the mid-infrared sky by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) led to the discovery of extremely cold low-mass brown dwarfs, classified as Y dwarfs, which extend the T class to lower temperatures. Twenty-four Y dwarfs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 S. K. Leggett , P. Tremblin , T. L. Esplin , K. L. Luhman , Caroline V. Morley

We have performed a census of disks around brown dwarfs in the Sigma Ori cluster using all available images from IRAC onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope. To search for new low-mass cluster members with disks, we have measured photometry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 K. L. Luhman , J. Hernandez , J. J. Downes , L. Hartmann , C. Briceno

We present a detailed characterization of 2MASS J04435750+3723031, a low-mass companion orbiting the young M2 star, 2MASS J04435686+3723033, at 7.6 arcseconds (550 AU) with potential membership in the 23 Myr $\beta$ Pictoris moving group…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Caprice Phillips , Brendan Bowler , Gregory Mace , Michael Liu , Kimberly Sokal

Cold brown dwarf atmospheres are good training grounds for analyzing temperate giant planets. WISEP J173835.52+273258.9 (WISE 1738) is an isolated Y0 brown dwarf with a temperature between 350-400 K, at the T-Y transition. While its…

We present results from a Hubble Space Telescope imaging search for low-mass binary and planetary companions to 33 nearby brown dwarfs with spectral types of T8-Y1. Our survey provides new photometric information for these faint systems,…

We report on the discovery of the young, nearby, brown dwarf 2MASS J0041353$-$562112. The object has a spectral type of M7.5, it shows Li absorption and signatures of accretion, which implies that it still has a disk and suggests an age…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-26 Ansgar Reiners

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…

We have monitored photometrically the Y0 brown dwarf WISEP J173835.52+273258.9 (W1738) at both near- and mid-infrared wavelengths. This ~1 Gyr-old 400K dwarf is at a distance of 8pc and has a mass around 5 M_Jupiter. We observed W1738 using…

We present three new brown dwarf spectral binary candidates: CWISE J072708.09$-$360729.2, CWISE J103604.84$-$514424.4, and CWISE J134446.62$-$732053.9, discovered by citizen scientists through the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project.…

Our goal is to characterise the physical properties of the metal-poor brown dwarf population. In particular, we focus on the recently discovered peculiar dwarf WISE J1810055$-$1010023. We collected optical iz and near-infrared J-band…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 N. Lodieu , M. R. Zapatero Osorio , E. L. Martin , R. Rebolo Lopez , B. Gauza

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