A STUDY OF THE DIVERSE T DWARF POPULATION REVEALED BY WISE

A STUDY OF THE DIVERSE T DWARF POPULATION REVEALED BY WISE

We report the discovery of 87 new T dwarfs uncovered with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and 3 brown dwarfs with extremely red near-infrared colors that exhibit characteristics of both L and T dwarfs. Two of the new T dwarfs are likely binaries with L7 ± 1 primaries and mid-type T se...

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Main Authors: Mace, Gregory N., Davy Kirkpatrick, J., Cushing, Michael C., Gelino, Christopher R., Griffith, Roger L., Skrutskie, Michael F., Marsh, Kenneth A., Wright, Edward L., Eisenhardt, P. R., McLean, Ian S., Thompson, Maggie A., Mix, Katholeen, Bailey, Vanessa, Beichman, Charles A., Bloom, Joshua S., Burgasser, Adam J., Fortney, Jonathan J., Hinz, Philip M., Knox, Russell P., Lowrance, Patrick J., Marley, Mark S., Morley, Caroline V., Rodigas, Timothy J., Saumon, Didier, Sheppard, Scott S., Stock, Nathan D.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93743

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