A new brown dwarf desert? A scarcity of wide ultracool binaries

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 971-978

  Allen, Peter R ^a   Koerner, David W ^b   McElwain, Michael W ^c   Cruz, Kelle L ^d   Reid, I Neill ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e STScI   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947523749     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/510346     Document Type: Article

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