Very Low Mass Stars and Substellar Objects in the Pleiades

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Jun 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996apj...464..238w&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal v.464, p.238

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Cosmology: Dark Matter, Galaxy: Open Clusters And Associations: Individual Name: Pleiades, Stars: Low-Mass, Brown Dwarfs, Stars: Luminosity Function, Mass Function

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We have identified a small number of faint, red stars in optical and infrared frames taken near the center of the Pleiades cluster. The sampled masses range from 0.25 to 0.04 Msun. The Pleiades mass function in linear units is consistent with a M-1 power law or with a flat dependence in logarithmic mass units. This dependence is consistent with studies of other young open clusters and suggests that massive brown dwarfs and low-mass stars do not contribute significantly to the dark matter.

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