Surveying the Solar Neighborhood for Brown Dwarf Companions with the ECLIPSE Discovery Mission

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Jun 2003

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Brown Dwarfs, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #211, held 20-24 May 2002 at University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. Edited by Eduard

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The proposed Eclipse Discovery mission is an optical space telescope designed to provide a thousandfold reduction in scattered light near bright stars in comparison to any Hubble Space Telescope instrument. A survey of 500 single stars within 15 pc can detect companions with absolute z magnitude of 22 at separations > 10 AU in most of the targets. Spectrophotometry of CH_4 and H_2O bands between 0.8-1.0 μm can be used to derive the effective temperatures of the objects. The ECLIPSE brown dwarf survey would directly measure the luminosity function of brown dwarf companions down to ˜20 Jupiter masses, providing a crucial
comparison with field objects.

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