Discovery of a 66 mas ultracool binary with laser guide star adaptive optics

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2320-2326

  Siegler, Nick ^a   Close, Laird M ^a   Burgasser, Adam J ^b   Cruz, Kelle L ^c,d   Marois, Christian ^e   Macintosh, Bruce ^e   Barman, Travis ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: visual; Stars: individual (2MASS J21321145+1341584); Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249296988     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513273     Document Type: Article

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