Discovery of the widest very low mass binary

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 659, Issue 1 II, 2007, Pages

  Artigau, Étienne ^a,b   Lafrenière, David ^b   Doyon, René ^b   Albert, Loïc ^c   Nadeau, Daniel ^b   Robert, Jasmin ^b  

^a GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Stars: individual (2mass j012655.49 502238.8, 2mass j012702.83 502321.1); Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248217598     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516710     Document Type: Article

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