7 papers
Seventy six T dwarfs from the UKIDSS LAS: benchmarks, kinematics and an updated space density
Ben Burningham, C. V. Cardoso, L. Smith +34
We report the discovery of 76 new T dwarfs from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey (LAS). Near-infrared broad and narrow-band photometry and spectroscopy are presented for the new object…
Two new ultra-cool benchmark systems from WISE+2MASS
J. I. Gomes, D. J. Pinfield, F. Marocco +6
We have used the 2MASS all-sky survey and the WISE to look for ultracool dwarfs that are part of multiple systems containing main sequence stars. We cross-matched L dwarf candidate…
Discovery of the benchmark metal poor T8 dwarf BD+01 2920B
D. J. Pinfield, B. Burningham, N. Lodieu +20
We have searched the WISE first data release for widely separated (<10,000AU) late T dwarf companions to Hipparcos and Gliese stars. We have discovered a new binary system containi…
An extremely luminous panchromatic outburst from the nucleus of a distant galaxy
A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, S. B. Cenko +58
Variable X-ray and gamma-ray emission is characteristic of the most extreme physical processes in the Universe, and studying the sources of these energetic photons has been a major…
New Optical Results on gamma-ray Binaries
J. Casares, J. M. Corral-Santana, A. Herrero +9
We present new optical spectroscopy of the gamma-ray binary LS 5039. Our data show evidence for sub-orbital modulation in the radial velocities with amplitude ~7 km/s and period ~P…
The mass of the white dwarf in GW Libra
L. van Spaandonk, D. Steeghs, T. R. Marsh +1
We report a mass and rotational broadening (vsini) for the pulsating white dwarf component of the WZ Sge type Dwarf Nova GW Lib based on high-resolution VLT spectroscopy that resol…