Publications (7)
Discovery of a brown dwarf companion to the A3V star β Circini
L. C. Smith, P. W. Lucas, C. Contreras Peña +14
We report the discovery of an L dwarf companion to the A3V star β Circini. VVV J151721.49-585131.5, or β Cir B, was identified in a proper motion and parallax catalogue of the Vi…
Luhman 16AB: A Remarkable, Variable L/T Transition Binary 2 pc from the Sun
A. J. Burgasser, J. Faherty, Y. Beletsky +12
Luhman (2013) has reported the discovery of a brown dwarf binary system only 2.01+/-0.15 pc from the Sun. The binary is well-resolved with a projected separation of 1.5", and spect…
High Proper Motion Objects from the UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey
L. Smith, P. W. Lucas, R. Bunce +12
The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) began in 2005 as a 7 year effort to survey ~1800 square degrees of the northern Galactic plane in the J, H, and K passbands. The survey inclu…
Clouds with a silicate lining: Using JWST spectra to probe atmospheric diversity in young AB Dor L dwarfs
M. B. Lam, J. M. Vos, G. Suárez +13
We present the first full JWST NIRSpec Prism and MIRI LRS 0.6 - 14 m (R ~ 100) spectra and analysis of five ~ 133 Myr L dwarf members of the AB Doradus moving group and one pro…
Deep search for companions to probable young brown dwarfs
G. Chauvin, J. Faherty, A. Boccaletti +10
We have obtained high contrast images of four nearby, faint, and very low mass objects 2MASSJ04351455-1414468, SDSSJ044337.61+000205.1, 2MASSJ06085283-2753583 and 2MASSJ06524851-57…
A deep WISE search for very late type objects and the discovery of two halo/thick-disk T dwarfs: WISE 0013+0634 and WISE 0833+0052
D. J. Pinfield, J. Gomes, A. C. Day-Jones +21
A method is defined for identifying late T and Y dwarfs in WISE down to low values of signal-to-noise. This requires a WISE detection only in the W2-band and uses the statistical p…