Hunting the lowest mass brown dwarfs.

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Aug 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000iraj...27..145p&link_type=abstract

Ir. Astron. J., Vol. 27, No. 2, p. 145 - 149

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Brown Dwarfs: Detection, Brown Dwarfs: Masses, Brown Dwarfs: Molecular Clouds

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The population of stellar-like objects, not massive enough to burn hydrogen like normal stars, are known as brown dwarfs. But how low-mass can these mysterious objects be? Also, how many of the lowest-mass brown dwarfs are, as yet, undetected in our Galaxy, or indeed, in other galaxies? To search for more of these elusive objects, the authors have conducted an R- and I-band survey in a region of recent star-formation, the Taurus molecular cloud. Infrared J-, H- and K-band measurements already made for three of the survey candidates indicate that two of these objects are, indeed, young brown dwarfs with masses ≡20 and <10 Jupiter masses.

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