Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009sf2a.conf..339r&link_type=abstract
SF2A-2009: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, held 29 June - 4 July 2009 in
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
Since the first discoveries in 1995, hundreds of field brown dwarfs have been found in DENIS, 2MASS and SDSS. The new generation of large-area surveys uses deeper images and probes a larger volume in the Galaxy, increasing the number of known brown dwarfs. Such surveys are the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) and the one we undertook, the Canada-France-Brown-Dwarf Survey (CFBDS). We expect that complete characterization of all our candidates will yield about 100 T and 400 L or very late-M dwarfs, approximately doubling the number of known brown dwarfs. At mid-course of the CFBDS survey, we are able to define an homogeneous sample of 67 brown dwarfs, from the mid-L dwarfs to the far end of the brown dwarfs observed sequence at the T/Y transition, and to derive a luminosity function.
Albert Loic
Artigau Étienne
Delfosse Xavier
Delorme Patrick
Forveille Thierry
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