A brown dwarf desert for intermediate mass stars in Scorpius OB2?

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 464, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 581-599

  Kouwenhoven, M B N ^a,c   Brown, A G A ^b   Kaper, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Hicks Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Binaries: visual; Open clusters and associations: individual: Sco OB2; Stars: formation; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; STARS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELESCOPES;

ANGULAR SEPARATION; MULTICOLOR ANALYSIS; OPEN CLUSTERS; STELLAR COMPONENTS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33947278903     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054396     Document Type: Article

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