Discovery of five very low mass close binaries, resolved in the visible with lucky imaging

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 368, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1917-1924

  Law, N M ^a   Hodgkin, S T ^a   MacKay, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Instrumentation: high angular resolution; Methods: observational; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Techniques: high angular resolution

Indexed keywords

STARS;

BINARIES: CLOSE; BINARY FRACTION; BROWN DWARFS; CONTRAST-RATIO; INSTRUMENTATION:HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION; LUCKY IMAGING; METHODS:OBSERVATIONAL; STARS: LOW-MASS BROWN DWARFS; TECHNIQUES: HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; VERY LOW MASS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 33744514646     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10265.x     Document Type: Article

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