An HST Study of the Substellar Population of NGC 2024

We performed an HST/WFC3-IR imaging survey of the young stellar cluster NGC 2024 in three filters probing the 1.4 μ m H _2 O absorption feature, characteristic of the population of low-mass and substellar-mass objects down to a few Jupiter masses. We detect 812 point sources, 550 of them in all thre...

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Main Authors: Massimo Robberto, Mario Gennaro, Nicola Da Rio, Giovanni Maria Strampelli, Leonardo Ubeda, Elena Sabbi, Dana Koeppe, Jonathan C. Tan, David R. Soderblom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad0785