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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…

The aim of the project is to improve our current knowledge of the density of T dwarfs and the shape of the substellar initial mass function by identifying a magnitude-limited sample of T dwarfs in the full southern sky. We present the…

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 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

Aims: WISE provides an infrared all-sky survey which aims at completing our knowledge on the possibly dramatically increasing number of brown dwarfs with lower temperatures. We search for the nearest representatives of the coolest brown…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 R. -D. Scholz , G. Bihain , O. Schnurr , J. Storm

We present the identification and characterization of 15 mid-to-late T dwarf candidates in the Euclid Quick Release 1 (Q1) dataset, based on a combined photometric and spectroscopic analysis. Candidates were initially selected via…

We report the discovery of a peculiar L dwarf from the UKIDSS LAS, ULAS J222711-004547. The very red infrared photometry (MKO J-K = 2.79$\pm$0.06, WISE W1-W2 = 0.65$\pm$0.05) of ULAS J222711-004547 makes it one of the reddest brown dwarfs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 F. Marocco , A. C. Day-Jones , P. W. Lucas , H. R. A. Jones , R. L. Smart , Z. H. Zhang , J. I. Gomes , B. Burningham , D. J. Pinfield , R. Raddi , L. Smith

We present the initial results from our search for high redshift, z > 6, quasars using near infrared data from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS). Our analysis of 106 deg^2 of sky from Data Release 1 (DR1)…

We present near-infrared observations of 71 newly discovered L and T dwarfs, selected from imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using the i-dropout technique. Sixty-five of these dwarfs have been classified spectroscopically…

This paper describes the discovery of seven dwarf objects of spectral type `L' (objects cooler than the latest M dwarfs) in commissioning imaging data taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Low-resolution spectroscopy shows that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 SDSS Collaboration , Xiaohui Fan

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

Context. Thanks to recent and ongoing large scale surveys, hundreds of brown dwarfs have been discovered in the last decade. The Canada-France Brown Dwarf Survey is a wide-field survey for cool brown dwarfs conducted with the MegaCam camera…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Reyle , P. Delorme , C. J. Willott , L. Albert , X. Delfosse , T. Forveille , E. Artigau , L. Malo , G. J. Hill , R. Doyon

We present initial results of our effort to create a statistically robust, volume-limited sample of ultracool dwarfs from the 2MASS Second Incremental Data Release. We are engaged in a multifaceted search for nearby late-type dwarfs and…

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…

We identify 806 ultra-cool dwarfs from their SDSS riz photometry (of which 34 are newly discovered L dwarfs) and obtain proper motions through cross matching with UKIDSS and 2MASS. Proper motion and distance constraints show that nine of…

We present ZJHKL'M' photometry of a sample of 58 late-M, L, and T dwarfs, most of which are identified from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Two Micron All-Sky Survey. Near-infrared spectra and spectral classifications for most of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. K. Leggett , D. A. Golimowski , X. Fan , T. R. Geballe , G. R. Knapp

Context. Euclid will carry out a deep survey benefiting the discovery and characterisation of ultracool dwarfs (UCDs), especially in the Euclid Deep Fields (EDFs), which the telescope will scan repeatedly throughout its mission. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Jerry Jun-Yan Zhang , Nicolas Lodieu , Eduardo Martín

We present the serendipitous discovery of an L subdwarf, 2MASS J06164006-6407194, in a search of the Two Micron All Sky Survey for T dwarfs. Its spectrum exhibits features indicative of both a cool and metal poor atmosphere including a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. C. Cushing , D. Looper , A. J. Burgasser , J. D. Kirkpatrick , J. Faherty , K. Cruz , A. Sweet , R. E. Sanderson

We confirm the substellar nature of ULAS J141623.94+134836.3, a common proper motion companion to the blue L dwarf SDSS J141624.08+134826.7 identified by Burningham et al. and Scholz. Low-resolution 0.8-2.4 micron spectroscopy obtained with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Adam J. Burgasser , Dagny L. Looper , John T. Rayner