Identification of a wide, low-mass multiple system containing the brown dwarf 2MASS J0850359+105716
We report our discovery of NLTT 20346 as an M5+M6 companion system to the tight binary (or triple) L dwarf 2MASS J0850359+105716. This nearby (~31 pc), widely separated (~7700 AU) quadruple system was identified through a cross-match of proper motion catalogs. Follow-up imaging and spectroscopy of N...
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Language: | en_US |
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IOP Publishing
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92747 |