Near-infrared spectroscopy of brown dwarfs: Methane and the transition between the L and T spectral types

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 561, Issue 1 PART 2, 2001, Pages

  Mclean, Ian S ^a   Prato, L ^a   Kim, Sungsoo S ^a   Wilcox, M K ^a,b   Kirkpatrick, J Davy ^c   Burgasser, Adam ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared: stars; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035511164     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324380     Document Type: Article

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