Discovery of a brown dwarf very close to the sun: A methane-rich brown dwarf companion to the low-mass star SCR 1845-6357

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 641, Issue 2 II, 2006, Pages

  Biller, B A ^a   Kasper, M ^b   Close, L M ^a   Brandner, W ^c   Kellner, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^d W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Instrumentation: adaptive optics; Stars: imaging; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745297375     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504256     Document Type: Article

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