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Young brown dwarfs serve as analogues of giant planets and provide benchmarks for atmospheric and formation models. JWST has enabled access to near-infrared spectra of brown dwarfs with unprecedented sensitivity. We aim to constrain their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 D. González Picos , S. de Regt , S. Gandhi , N. Grasser , I. A. G. Snellen

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…

(Abridged) We present a large, uniform analysis of young (~10-150 Myr) ultracool dwarfs, based on new high-precision IR parallaxes for 68 objects. We find that low-gravity (VL-G) late-M and L dwarfs form a continuous sequence in IR…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Michael C. Liu , Trent J. Dupuy , Katelyn N. Allers

The fundamental properties of brown dwarfs evolve with age. Models describing the evolution of luminosities and effective temperatures, among other physical parameters, can be empirically constrained using brown dwarfs of various masses in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Bihain , R. Rebolo , M. R. Zapatero Osorio , V. J. S. Béjar , J. A. Caballero

SONYC - Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters - is a survey program to investigate the frequency and properties of brown dwarfs down to masses below the Deuterium burning limit in nearby star forming regions. In this second paper, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Vincent Geers , Alexander Scholz , Ray Jayawardhana , Eve Lee , David Lafrenière , Motohide Tamura

We present the spectroscopic analysis of a large sample of late-M, L, and T dwarfs from UKIDSS. Using the YJHK photometry from ULAS and the red-optical photometry from SDSS we selected a sample of 262 brown dwarf candidates and we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Marocco , H. R. A. Jones , A. C. Day-Jones , D. J. Pinfield , P. W. Lucas , B. Burningham , Z. H. Zhang , R. L. Smart , J. I. Gomes , L. Smith

We present spectroscopic follow-up observations of 68 red, faint candidates from our multi-epoch, multi-wavelength, previously published survey of NGC 2264. Using near-infrared spectra from VLT/KMOS, we measure spectral types and extinction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Samuel Pearson , Aleks Scholz , Paula S Teixeira , Koraljka Mužić , Víctor Almendros-Abad

We report the discovery of 87 new T dwarfs uncovered with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and three brown dwarfs with extremely red near-infrared colors that exhibit characteristics of both L and T dwarfs. Two of the new T…

We report the possible identification of weak methane spectral features in the near-infrared K band in two late L dwarfs, DENIS 0205-11 (L7) and 2MASS 1523+30 (L8). New, high signal-to-noise ratio flux-calibrated spectra, spanning the…

We present optical and near-IR spectroscopy (600--1000 nm) of 8 faint (I$>$18) very red (R--I$>$2.2) objects discovered in a deep CCD survey of the Pleiades (Zapatero-Osorio et al. 1996). We compare them with reliable cluster members like…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 E. L. Martin , R. Rebolo , M. R. Zapatero Osorio

We present a systematic study of the physical properties of late-M dwarfs based on high-quality dynamical mass measurements and near-infrared (NIR) spectra. We use astrometry from Keck NGS and LGS AO imaging to determine orbits for late-M…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Trent Dupuy , Michael Liu , Brendan Bowler , Michael Cushing , Christiane Helling , Soeren Witte , Peter Hauschildt

We present the discovery of seven ultracool brown dwarfs identified with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Near-infrared spectroscopy reveals deep absorption bands of H_2O and CH_4 that indicate all seven of the brown dwarfs…

Recently, studies of brown dwarfs have demonstrated that they possess strong magnetic fields and have the potential to produce radio and optical auroral emissions powered by magnetospheric currents. This emission provides the only window on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 J. Sebastian Pineda , Gregg Hallinan , J. Davy Kirkpatrick , Garret Cotter , Melodie M. Kao , Kunal Mooley

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 analyze an HST/STIS ultraviolet spectrum of the young brown dwarf 2MASSW J1207334-393254, a member of the ten million-year old TW Hya Association that has a planetary-mass companion. We detect and identify numerous emission lines. CIV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John E. Gizis , Harry L. Shipman , James A. Harvin

In our analysis of {\it Spitzer}/IRS archival data on the stellar and sub-stellar members of the TW Hydrae Association (TWA), we have discovered two new brown dwarf disks: a flat optically thick disk around SSSPM J1102-3431 (SSSPM 1102),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Riaz , J. E. Gizis

We have obtained multi-fibre intermediate-resolution optical spectroscopy of 94 photometric and proper motion selected low-mass star and brown dwarf candidates in Upper Sco with AAT/AAOmega. We have estimated the spectral types and measured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Lodieu , P. D. Dobbie , N. C. Hambly

We report the discovery of TOI-7019b, the first transiting brown dwarf (BD) known to orbit a star that is part of the Milky Way's ancient thick disk, as defined chemically ([Fe/H] $= -0.79 \pm 0.05$ dex, [$\alpha$/Fe] $= +0.26 \pm 0.05$…

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 present the results of a simulation to investigate the prospects of measuring mass, age, radius, metallicity and luminosity data for brown dwarfs in fully eclipsing binary systems around late K and early M dwarfs identified by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. J. Pinfield , H. R. A. Jones , I. A. Steele
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