Brown Dwarfs in the Pleiades Cluster: a CCD-based R,I survey

Details Brown Dwarfs in the Pleiades Cluster: a CCD-based R,I survey Brown Dwarfs in the Pleiades Cluster: a CCD-based R,I survey

1996-04-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9604079v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We have obtained deep CCD R and I mosaic imaging of 578 arcmin$^{2}$ within 1$^{\circ}$.5 of the Pleiades' center -- reaching a completeness magnitude I=19.5 -- with the aim of finding free-floating brown dwarfs. Teide~1, the best $bona$ $fide$ brown dwarf discovered so far in the cluster (Rebolo, Zapatero Osorio \& Mart\'\i n 1995), arose as a result of a combined photometric and astrometric study of $\sim$1/4 of our covered area. The extension of our two-colour survey provides eight new additional brown dwarf candidates whose photometry is rather similar to that of Teide~1. Several of them are even fainter. Follow up low-resolution spectroscopy (Mart\'\i n, Rebolo \& Zapatero Osorio 1996) shows that one of them is indeed a Pleiades brown dwarf. Most of the remaining candidates are background late-M dwarfs which are contaminating our survey, possibly due to a small (previously unknown) cloud towards the cluster which affects some of our CCD fields. We did not expect any foreground M8--M9 field dwarf in our surveyed volume and surprisingly we have found one, suggesting that its number could be larger than inferred from recent luminosity function studies in the solar neighbourhood.

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