DISCOVERY OF A CANDIDATE FOR THE COOLEST KNOWN BROWN DWARF

We have used multi-epoch images from the Infrared Array Camera on board the Spitzer Space Telescope to search for substellar companions to stars in the solar neighborhood based on common proper motions. Through this work, we have discovered a faint companion to the white dwarf WD 0806-661. The comov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Luhman, K. L., Bochanski, John J., Burgasser, Adam J.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95646