Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS observations of T dwarfs: Brown dwarf multiplicity and new probes of the L/T transition

Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 585-612

  Burgasser, Adam J ^a   Kirkpatrick, J Davy ^b   Cruz, Kelle L ^c,d   Reid, I Neill ^e   Leggett, Sandy K ^f   Liebert, James ^g   Burrows, Adam ^g   Brown, Michael E ^h  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics   (United States)

^e STScI   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: visual; Stars: fundamental parameters; Stars: individual (SDSS J042348.57 041403.5, 2MASS J05185995 2828372, SDSS J092615.38+584720.9, SDSS J102109.69 030420.1, 2MASS J15530228+1532369); Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751567234     PISSN: 00670049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/506327     Document Type: Article

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