Discovery of a brown dwarf companion to gliese 570abc: A 2mass t dwarf significantly cooler than gliese 229b

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 531, Issue 1 PART 2, 2000, Pages

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

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: visual; Infrared: stars; Stars: fundamental parameters; Stars: individual (Gliese 570D); Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034148655     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/312522     Document Type: Article

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