The WISE View of Ultracool Brown Dwarfs

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Jan 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21733303c&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #333.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

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One of the primary science goals of the Wide-field Infrared Survey
Explorer (WISE), a NASA MIDEX mission to survey the entire sky at four mid-infrared wavelengths, is to identify the coolest (Teff < 500K) brown dwarfs in the solar neighborhood. Study of these ultracool brown dwarfs will allow us to constrain the low-mass mass function and extend our studies of low-temperature, high-pressure atmospheric physics well into the exoplanet regime. I will present some early results of our brown dwarf program and in particular, will present near-infrared spectra of some of the very late-type T dwarfs we have discovered as well as the initial results of model atmosphere comparisons.
This research was supported [in part] by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities through a contract with NASA.

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