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The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview and Clusters Without Previous HST Photometry
Ata Sarajedini, L. Bedin, B. Chaboyer +10
We present the first results of a large ACS Survey of Galactic globular clusters. This Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury project is designed to obtain photometry with S/N > ~10…
A New Brown Dwarf Desert? A Scarcity of Wide Ultracool Binaries
Peter R. Allen, David W. Koerner, Michael W. McElwain +2
We present the results of a deep-imaging search for wide companions to low-mass stars and brown dwarfs using NSFCam on IRTF. We searched a sample of 132 M7-L8 dwarfs to magnitude l…
A Re-appraisal of the Habitability of Planets Around M Dwarf Stars
Jill C. Tarter, Peter R. Backus, Rocco L. Mancinelli +29
Stable, hydrogen-burning, M dwarf stars comprise about 75% of all stars in the Galaxy. They are extremely long-lived and because they are much smaller in mass than the Sun (between…
Discovery of 9 New Companions to Nearby Young M Stars with the Altair AO System
Sebastian Daemgen, Nick Siegler, I. Neill Reid +1
We present results of a high-resolution, near-infrared survey of 41 nearby, young (<~300 Myr) M0-M5.0 dwarfs using the Altair natural guide star adaptive optics system at the Gemin…
Using the Galactic Dynamics of M7 Dwarfs to Infer the Evolution of Their Magnetic Activity
Andrew A. West, John J. Bochanski, Suzanne L. Hawley +5
We present a spectroscopic study and dynamical analysis of ~2600 M7 dwarfs. We confirm our previous finding that the fraction of magnetically active stars decreases with vertical d…
Extrasolar Planets: A Galactic Perspective
I. N. Reid
The host stars of extrasolar planets tend to be metal-rich. We have examined the data for these stars for evidence of trends in other galactic parameters, without success. However,…
A search for binary systems among the nearest L dwarfs
I. N. Reid, E. Lewitus, P. R. Allen +2
We have used the NICMOS NIC1 camera on the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain high angular resolution images of 51 ultracool dwarfs in the immediate Solar Neighbourhood. Nine systems…
Not Alone: Tracing the Origins of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs Through Multiplicity Studies
Adam J. Burgasser, I. Neill Reid, Nick Siegler +4
The properties of multiple stellar systems have long provided important empirical constraints for star formation theories, enabling (along with several other lines of evidence) a c…