The wide brown dwarf binary Oph 1622-2405 and discovery of a wide, low-mass binary in ophiuchus (Oph 1623-2402): A new class of young evaporating wide binaries?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 660, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 1492-1506

  Close, Laird M ^a   Zuckerman, B ^b   Song, Inseok ^c   Barman, Travis ^d   Marois, Christian ^e   Rice, Emily L ^b   Siegler, Nick ^a   Macintosh, Bruce ^e   Becklin, E E ^b   Campbell, Randy ^f   Lyke, James E ^f   Conrad, Al ^f   Le Mignant, David ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Instrumentation: adaptive optics; Stars: evolution; Stars: formation; Stars: individual (2MASS J16222521 2405139, 2MASS J16233609 2402209); Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249906455     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513417     Document Type: Article

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