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Searching for Wide Binary Brown Dwarfs around Nearby Stars
- Source :
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union. 211:287-288
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2003.
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Abstract
- We have started a program to search for Brown Dwarf (BD) companions to nearby stars (5 ≤ d ≤ 10 pc) on long period orbits (up to 2000 AU) using wide field optical/infrared imaging. Our goals in surveying a volume-limited sample of stars are: 1) to determine the binary fraction of widely separated BDs and help constrain the BD formation processes, 2) to search for very cold BDs, 3) to provide a better determination of the age and luminosity of a BD sample. Observations are currently conducted at three observatories, CFHT (3.6m), CTIO (4m) and Observatoire du mont Mégantic (1.6m) and should yield a sample of ~100 star systems to a detection limit of J ≈ 20.
Details
- ISSN :
- 00741809
- Volume :
- 211
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........690394e459cb924be101443ebdd0a1ae