A New Population of Young Brown Dwarfs

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dc.creatorCruz, Kelle L.
dc.creatorKirkpatrick, J. Davy
dc.creatorBurgasser, Adam J.
dc.creatorLooper, Dagny
dc.creatorMohanty, Subhanjoy
dc.creatorPrato, Lisa
dc.creatorFaherty, Jackie
dc.creatorSolomon, Adam
dc.date2007-02-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:44:10Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:44:10Z
dc.descriptionWe report the discovery of a population of late-M and L field dwarfs with unusual optical and near-infrared spectral features that we attribute to low gravity -- likely uncommonly young, low-mass brown dwarfs. Many of these new-found young objects have southerly declinations and distance estimates within 60 parsecs. Intriguingly, these are the same properties of recently discovered, nearby, intermediate-age (5-50 Myr), loose associations such as Tucana/Horologium, the TW Hydrae association, and the Beta Pictoris moving group. We describe our efforts to confirm cluster membership and to further investigate this possible new young population of brown dwarfs.
dc.description5 pages, contribution to proceedings for the 14th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, 6-10 November 2006
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702034
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702034
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/123099
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleA New Population of Young Brown Dwarfs
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