RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY OF M DWARF/L DWARF BINARIES. III. THE "WIDE" L3.5/L4 DWARF BINARY 2MASS J15500845+1455180AB

We report the identification of 2MASS J15500845+1455180 as a 0farcs9 L dwarf visual binary. This source is resolved in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) images and in near-infrared imaging with the Infrared Telescope Facility SpeX imager/spectrometer. The two components, oriented along a north-south a...

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Main Authors: Burgasser, Adam J., Dhital, Saurav, West, A. A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52607