A search for companions to nearby brown dwarfs: The binary DENIS-P J1228.2-1547

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5408, 1999, Pages 1718-1720

  Martin E L ^a   Brandner, W ^b   Basri, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN; LITHIUM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CAMERA; LUMINANCE; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033548658     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5408.1718     Document Type: Article

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35. This paper is based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy under NASA contract NAS5-26555. We thank the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute for granting us HST Director Discretionary time. G.B. acknowledges the support of NSF through grant AST96-18439. E.L.M. was supported by a post-doctoral fellowship of the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Cultura.