An extremely wide and very low-mass pair with common proper motion: Is it representative of a nearby halo stream?

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 487, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 595-599

  Scholz, R D ^a   Kharchenko, V ^a,b   Lodieu, N ^c   McCaughrean, J ^d  

^a ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxy: formation; Galaxy: halo; Solar neighbourhood; Stars: kinematics; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ESTIMATION; SEPARATION; SURVEYS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ALL-SKY SURVEY; ANGULAR SEPARATION; GALACTIC HALO; GALAXY: FORMATION; GALAXY: HALO; LATE-TYPE; LOW-MASS STARS; LOW-RESOLUTION; NEAR INFRA-RED; PROPER MOTIONS; RADIAL VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS; SOLAR NEIGHBOURHOOD; SPACE VELOCITIES; SPECTROSCOPIC DISTANCE; STARS: KINEMATICS; STARS: LOW-MASS, BROWN DWARFS; VERY LOW-MASS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 48849116825     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200809797     Document Type: Article

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