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Located at ~2pc, the L7.5+T0.5 dwarfs system WISE J104915.57-531906.1 (Luhman16AB) is the third closest system known to Earth, making it a key benchmark for detailed investigation of brown dwarf atmospheric properties, thermal evolution,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 L. R. Bedin , D. Pourbaix , D. Apai , A. J. Burgasser , E. Buenzli , H. M. J. Boffin , M. Libralato

We image 104 newly identified low-mass (mostly M-dwarf) pre-main sequence members of nearby young moving groups with Magellan Adaptive Optics (MagAO) and identify 27 binaries with instantaneous projected separation as small as 40 mas. 15…

This study presents observations of two possible substellar survivors of post-main sequence engulfment, currently orbiting white dwarf stars. Infrared and optical spectroscopy of GD 1400 reveal a 9.98 h orbital period, where the benchmark…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 N. Walters , J. Farihi , T. R. Marsh , E. Breedt , P. W. Cauley , T. von Hippel , J. J. Hermes

In a search for common proper motion companions using the VISTA Hemisphere Survey and 2MASS catalogs we have identified a very red (J-Ks=2.47 mag) late-L dwarf companion of a previously unrecognized M dwarf VHS J125601.92-125723.9, located…

[abridged] We report four years of radial velocity monitoring observations of SDSS J080531.84+481233.0 that reveal significant and periodic variability, confirming the binary nature of the source. We infer an orbital period of 2.02$\pm$0.03…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Adam J. Burgasser , Cullen H. Blake , Christopher R. Gelino , Johannes Sahlmann , Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi

We present individual dynamical masses for the nearby M9.5+T5.5 binary WISE J072003.20$-$084651.2AB, a.k.a. Scholz's star. Combining high-precision CFHT/WIRCam photocenter astrometry and Keck adaptive optics resolved imaging, we measure the…

We present ALMA observations of the 2M1207 system, a young binary made of a brown dwarf with a planetary-mass companion at a projected separation of about 40 au. We detect emission from dust continuum at 0.89 mm and from the $J = 3 - 2$…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 L. Ricci , P. Cazzoletti , I. Czekala , S. Andrews , D. Wilner , L. Szucs , G. Lodato , L. Testi , I. Pascucci , S. Mohanty , D. Apai , J. Carpenter , B. Bowler

[Abridged] We report observations of the recently discovered, nearby late-M dwarf WISE J072003.20-084651.2. Astrometric measurements obtained with TRAPPIST improve the distance measurement to 6.0$\pm$1.0 pc and confirm the low tangential…

We report on a study of 36 pairs of `twin' M dwarfs in wide binaries and assess how similarly the stars behave. Stars in each twin pair have BP, RP, $J$, $H$, and $K_s$ differing by $<$0.10 mag, mass estimates matching within $<$3%, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Andrew A. Couperus , Todd J. Henry , Aman Kar , Wei-Chun Jao , Eliot Halley Vrijmoet , Rachel A. Osten

We observed spectroscopically the eclipsing binary system T-Cyg1-01385 in order to determine physical properties of the components. The double-lined nature of the system is revealed for the first time and the radial velocities are obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 O. Cakirli , C. Ibanoglu , E. Sipahi

Benchmark brown dwarfs are those objects for which fiducial constraints are available, including effective temperature, parallax, age, metallicity. We searched for new cool brown dwarfs in 186 sq.deg. of the new area covered by the data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 B. Goldman , S. Marsat , T. Henning , C. Clemens , J. Greiner

The companion GL229B was recently resolved by Xuan et al. (2024) as a tight binary of two brown dwarfs (Ba and Bb) through VLTI-GRAVITY interferometry and VLT-CRIRES+ RV measurements. Here, we present Bayesian models of the interferometric…

Understanding how giant planets form requires observational input from directly imaged protoplanets. We used VLT/NACO and VLT/SPHERE to search for companions in the transition disc of 2MASS J19005804-3645048 (hereafter CrA-9), an accreting…

We report preliminary results of a deep near-infrared search for methane-absorbing brown dwarfs; almost five years after the discovery of Gl 229b, there are only a few confirmed examples of this type of object. New J band, wide-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. M. Herbst , D. Thompson , R. Fockenbrock , H. -W. Rix , S. V. W. Beckwith

We report on the discovery of the companion star to the millisecond pulsar J1342+2822B in the globular cluster M3. We exploited a combination of near-ultraviolet and optical observations acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope in order to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 M. Cadelano , F. R. Ferraro , A. G. Istrate , C. Pallanca , B. Lanzoni , P. C. C. Freire

We report the discovery of companions to 5 nearby late M dwarfs (>M5), LHS1901, LHS4009, LHS6167, LP869-26 and WT460, and we confirm that the recently discovered mid-T brown dwarf companion to SCR1845-6357 is physically bound to that star.…

We conducted a multi-wavelength, multi-instrument observational characterisation of the candidate free-floating planet CFBDSIR~J214947.2-040308.9, a late T-dwarf with possible low-gravity features, in order to constrain its physical…

We present the characterization of CRTS J055255.7$-$004426 (=THOR 42), a young eclipsing binary comprising two pre-main sequence M dwarfs (combined spectral type M3.5). This nearby (103 pc), short-period (0.859 d) system was recently…

We report the discovery of a faint L6 \pm 1 companion to the previously known M9 dwarf, 2MASS J01303563-4445411, based on our near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations with the 3m Infrared Telescope Facility SpeX…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-10 Saurav Dhital , Adam J. Burgasser , Dagny L. Looper , Keivan G. Stassun

We report the discovery of a bright (V ~ 13.7), extremely low-mass white dwarf in a close double degenerate system. We originally selected GALEX J171708.5+675712 for spectroscopic follow-up among a group of white dwarf candidates in an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-02 S. Vennes , J. R. Thorstensen , A. Kawka , P. Nemeth , J. N. Skinner , A. Pigulski , M. Steslicki , Z. Kolaczkowski , P. Srodka