Crossing the brown dwarf desert using adaptive optics: A very close l dwarf companion to the nearby solar analog HR 7672

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 571, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 519-527

  Liu, Michael C ^a   Fischer, Debra A ^b   Graham, James R ^b   Lloyd, James P ^b   Marcy, Geoff W ^b   Butler, R Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Infrared: stars; Planetary systems: formation; Stars: individual (HR 7672); Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Techniques: high angular resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042732246     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339845     Document Type: Article

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