New brown dwarf candidates in the Pleiades

Details New brown dwarf candidates in the Pleiades New brown dwarf candidates in the Pleiades

2009-03-04

arxiv.org/abs/0903.0822v2

Astronomische Nachrichten 330, No. 5, 439 - 458 (2009)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

submitted to AN 37 pages (two long tables), 14 Figures

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We have performed deep, wide-field imaging on a ~0.4 deg^2 field in the Pleiades (Melotte 22). The selected field was not yet target of a deep search for low mass stars and brown dwarfs. Our limiting magnitudes are R ~ 22mag and I ~ 20mag, sufficient to detect brown dwarf candidates down to 40MJ. We found 197 objects, whose location in the (I, R - I) color magnitude diagram is consistent with the age and the distance of the Pleiades. Using CTK R and I as well as JHK photometry from our data and the 2MASS survey we were able to identify 7 new brown dwarf candidates. We present our data reduction technique, which enables us to resample, calibrate, and co-add many images by just two steps. We estimate the interstellar extinction and the spectral type from our optical and the NIR data using a two-dimensional chi^22 fitting.

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