Formation, evolution and multiplicity of brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets
arXiv:0810.2033 · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11250-8_7
Abstract
This proceeding summarises the talk of the awardee of the Spanish Astronomical Society award to the the best Spanish thesis in Astronomy and Astrophysics in the two-year period 2006-2007. The thesis required a tremendous observational effort and covered many different topics related to brown dwarfs and exoplanets, such as the study of the mass function in the substellar domain of the young sigma Orionis cluster down to a few Jupiter masses, the relation between the cluster stellar and substellar populations, the accretion discs in cluster brown dwarfs, the frequency of very low-mass companions to nearby young stars at intermediate and wide separations, or the detectability of Earth-like planets in habitable zones around ultracool (L- and T-type) dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood.
"Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics V", Proceedings of the VIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA) held in Santander, 7-11 July, 2008. Edited by J. Gorgas, L. J. Goicoechea, J. I. Gonzalez-Serrano, J. M. Diego. Invited oral contribution to plenary session
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- The Gemini Deep Planet Survey -- GDPS
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- Circumstellar discs in the young sigma Orionis cluster
- Direct imaging of the young spectroscopic binary HD 160934
- Low-resolution spectroscopy and spectral energy distributions of selected sources towards sigma Orionis
- Initial mass function effects on the colour evolution of disk galaxies
- CLOUDS search for variability in brown dwarf atmospheres
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