Brown Dwarfs in the Pleiades, a deep IJK survey

dc.creatorFestin, L.
dc.date1997-01-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:22:48Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:22:48Z
dc.descriptionAn area large enough (180 sq arcmin) to put constraints on a possible low mass brown dwarf population in the Pleiades has been surveyed to very faint magnitudes in I, J and K. The completeness limit, I=21.6, corresponds to a mass of 0.01 Msun for a cluster age of 70 Myr and 0.035 Msun for 120 Myr. The result is consistent with previous investigations at higher masses that the brown dwarf initial mass function is a 1/m, or even less steep power law. Thus low mass brown dwarfs cannot contribute significantly to the Pleiades mass. One new possible Pleiades member was found, mass around 0.08 Msun.
dc.description6 pages Latex, 4 PostScript-figs, accepted for publication in A&A
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9701205
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9701205
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11014
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleBrown Dwarfs in the Pleiades, a deep IJK survey
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