Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1993-09-02
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.266:775,1994
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
(to appear in MNRAS), 40 pages and 14 Figures (available on anonymous FTP: starsun1.ph.qmw.ac.uk), LaTeX file (including a sty
Scientific paper
Brown dwarfs, stars with insufficient mass to burn hydrogen, could contribute to the dark matter in the Galactic disk, galactic halos or even a background critical density. We consider the detectability of such brown dwarfs in various scenarios, extending previous work by allowing for the possibility that they may have an extended mass spectrum or be clumped into dark clusters. We investigate the constraints placed on such scenarios by the \iras survey. Whilst an extrapolation of the mass function of visible disk stars makes it unlikely that brown dwarfs comprise all of the proposed disk dark matter, \iras does not exclude brown dwarfs providing the dark matter in our own halo or a cosmological background. Neither does it improve on existing dynamical constraints on the mass and radius of brown dwarf clusters in our halo. Future satellites such as \iso and \sirtf will either detect brown dwarfs or brown dwarf clusters or else severely constrain their contribution to the dark matter.
Carr Bernard J.
Kerins Eamonn J.
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