Discovery of four field methane (T-type) dwarfs with the two micron all-sky survey

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 522, Issue 1 PART 2, 1999, Pages

  Burgasser, Adam J ^a   Kirkpatrick, J Davy ^b   Brown, Michael E ^c   Reid, I Neill ^d   Gizis, John E ^e   Dahn, Conard C ^f   Monet, David G ^f   Beichman, Charles A ^g   Liebert, James ^h   Cutri, Roc M ^b   Skrutskie, Michael F ^e  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^f FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared: Stars; Stars: Fundamental parameters; Stars: Low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033192150     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/312221     Document Type: Article

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