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JWST Observations of the Metal-poor T Dwarf WISEA J155349.96+693355.2: The First Brown Dwarf Associated with the Gaia-Enceladus Milky Way Substructure
Aaron M. Meisner, Adam J. Burgasser, Chih-Chun Hsu +15
We present JWST NIRSpec and MIRI observations of the metal-poor T dwarf WISEA J155349.96+693355.2. The combined NIRSpec/prism plus MIRI/LRS spectrum (R ~ 100) provides 0.6-12 m…
Metal-poor Brown Dwarf Kinematics from JWST NIRSpec Spectroscopy
Chih-Chun Hsu, Christopher A. Theissen, Adam J. Burgasser +14
Galactic archaeology relies on stellar kinematics and chemical abundances to identify various stellar populations and associations. With JWST, Galactic archaeology of ancient metal…
Searching for Ultracool Dwarfs in Early LSST Data Products
Easton J. Honaker, John E. Gizis, Christian Aganze +8
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) promises to drastically accelerate the discovery of ultracool dwarfs (UCDs) over the course of its 10-year su…
Identifying and Characterizing Very Low Mass Spectral Blend Binaries with Machine Learning Methods
Juan Diego Draxl Giannoni, Malina Desai, Adam J. Burgasser +5
We present an approach to identifying and characterizing unresolved, very low mass spectral blend binaries composed of late-M, L, and T dwarfs using machine learning methodologies.…
Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf
Adam J. Burgasser, Eileen C. Gonzales, Samuel A. Beiler +16
The atmospheres of low-temperature brown dwarfs and gas giant planets are expected to contain the phosphine molecule, PH However, previous observations have shown much lower ab…
New Cold Subdwarf Discoveries from Backyard Worlds and a Metallicity Classification System for T Subdwarfs
Adam J. Burgasser, Adam C. Schneider, Aaron M. Meisner +36
We report the results of a spectroscopic survey of candidate T subdwarfs identified by the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 program. Near-infrared spectra of 31 sources with red co…
Thirteen New M Dwarf + T Dwarf Pairs Identified with WISE/NEOWISE
Federico Marocco, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Adam C. Schneider +31
We present the discovery of 13 new widely separated T dwarf companions to M dwarf primaries, identified using WISE/NEOWISE data by the CatWISE and Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project…
89 New Ultracool Dwarf Co-Moving Companions Identified With The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
Austin Rothermich, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Daniella Bardalez-Gagliuffi +43
We report the identification of 89 new systems containing ultracool dwarf companions to main sequence stars and white dwarfs, using the citizen science project Backyard Worlds: Pla…
The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project (BDKP). VI. Ultracool Dwarf Radial and Rotational Velocities from SDSS/APOGEE High-resolution Spectroscopy
Chih-Chun Hsu, Adam J. Burgasser, Christopher A. Theissen +11
We present precise measurements of radial (RV) and projected rotational () velocities, effective temperatures, and surface gravities of a sample of 258 M6 to L2 dwarfs wi…
The Initial Mass Function Based on the Full-sky 20-pc Census of 3,600 Stars and Brown Dwarfs
J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Federico Marocco, Christopher R. Gelino +85
A complete accounting of nearby objects -- from the highest-mass white dwarf progenitors down to low-mass brown dwarfs -- is now possible, thanks to an almost complete set of trigo…
JWST/NIRCam discovery of the first Y+Y brown dwarf binary: WISE J033605.05014350.4
Per Calissendorff, Matthew De Furio, Michael Meyer +25
We report the discovery of the first brown dwarf binary system with a Y dwarf primary, WISE J033605.05014350.4, observed with NIRCam on JWST with the F150W and F480M filters. We…
Redder than Red: Discovery of an Exceptionally Red L/T Transition Dwarf
Adam C. Schneider, Adam J. Burgasser, Justice Bruursema +26
We present the discovery of CWISE J050626.96073842.4 (CWISE J05060738), an L/T transition dwarf with extremely red near-infrared colors discovered through the Backyard Worlds…
Discovery of 34 low-mass comoving systems using NOIRLab Source Catalog DR2
Frank Kiwy, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Aaron Meisner +14
We present the discovery of 34 comoving systems containing an ultra-cool dwarf found by means of the NOIRLab Source Catalog (NSC) DR2. NSC's angular resolution of 1" allows f…
CWISE J014611.20-050850.0AB: The Widest Known Brown Dwarf Binary in the Field
Emma Softich, Adam C. Schneider, Jennifer Patience +19
While stars are often found in binary systems, brown dwarf binaries are much rarer. Brown dwarf--brown dwarf pairs are typically difficult to resolve because they often have very s…
A Wide Planetary Mass Companion Discovered Through the Citizen Science Project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9
Jacqueline K. Faherty, Jonathan Gagne, Mark Popinchalk +24
Through the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project we discovered a late-type L dwarf co-moving with the young K0 star BD+60 1417 at a projected separation of 37" or 1662…
Beyond the Local Volume. I. Surface Densities of Ultracool Dwarfs in Deep HST/WFC3 Parallel Fields
Christian Aganze, Adam J Burgasser, Mathew Malkan +6
Ultracool dwarf stars and brown dwarfs provide a unique probe of large-scale Galactic structure and evolution; however, until recently spectroscopic samples of sufficient size, dep…
Discovery of a low-mass comoving system using NOIRLab Source Catalog DR2
Frank Kiwy, Jacqueline Faherty, Aaron Meisner +6
We present the discovery of a low-mass comoving system found by means of the NOIRLab Source Catalog (NSC) DR2. The system consists of the high proper-motion star LEHPM 5005 and an…
The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project (BDKP). V. Radial and Rotational Velocities of T Dwarfs from Keck/NIRSPEC High-Resolution Spectroscopy
Chih-Chun Hsu, Adam J. Burgasser, Christopher A. Theissen +7
We report multi-epoch radial velocities, rotational velocities, and atmospheric parameters for 37 T-type brown dwarfs observed with Keck/NIRSPEC. Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo f…
New Candidate Extreme T Subdwarfs from the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
Aaron M. Meisner, Adam C. Schneider, Adam J. Burgasser +29
Schneider et al. (2020) presented the discovery of WISEA J041451.67-585456.7 and WISEA J181006.18-101000.5, which appear to be the first examples of extreme T-type subdwarfs (esdTs…
The Field Substellar Mass Function Based on the Full-sky 20-pc Census of 525 L, T, and Y Dwarfs
J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Christopher R. Gelino, Jacqueline K. Faherty +49
We present final Spitzer trigonometric parallaxes for 361 L, T, and Y dwarfs. We combine these with prior studies to build a list of 525 known L, T, and Y dwarfs within 20 pc of th…
Spitzer Follow-up of Extremely Cold Brown Dwarfs Discovered by the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
Aaron M. Meisner, Jacqueline K. Faherty, J. Davy Kirkpatrick +40
We present Spitzer follow-up imaging of 95 candidate extremely cold brown dwarfs discovered by the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project, which uses visually perceived…
The First Brown Dwarf/Planetary-Mass Object in the 32 Orionis Group
Adam J. Burgasser, Mike A. Lopez, Eric E. Mamajek +6
The 32 Orionis group is a co-moving group of roughly 20 young (24 Myr) M3-B5 stars 100 pc from the Sun. Here we report the discovery of its first substellar member, WISE J052857.69…
Characterization of the Very Low Mass Secondary in the GJ 660.1AB System
Christian Aganze, Adam J. Burgasser, Jacqueline K. Faherty +7
We present spectroscopic analysis of the low mass binary star system GJ 660.1AB, a pair of nearby M dwarfs for which we have obtained separated near-infrared spectra (0.9-2.5 m)…