Browsing by Author "Gromadzki, M."

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    • A deep WISE search for very late type objects and the discovery of two halo/thick-disc T dwarfs : WISE 0013+0634 and WISE 0833+0052 

      Pinfield, D.J.; Gomes, J.; Day-Jones, A. C.; Leggett, S.K.; Gromadzki, M.; Burningham, B.; Ruiz, M. T.; Kurtev, R.; Cattermole, T.; Cardoso, C.; Lodieu, N.; Faherty, J.; Littlefair, S.; Smart, R.; Irwin, M.; Clarke, J. R. A.; Smith, Leigh; Lucas, P.W.; Galvez-Ortiz, M. C.; Jenkins, J. S.; Jones, H.R.A.; Rebolo, R.; Bejar, V. J. S.; Gauza, B. (2014-01-11)
      A method is defined for identifying late-T and Y dwarfs in WISE down to low values of signal-to-noise. This requires a WISE detection only in the W2-band and uses the statistical properties of the WISE multiframe measurements ...

    • Discovery of a brown dwarf companion to the A3V star β Circini 

      Smith, Leigh; Lucas, P.W.; Peña, C. Contreras; Kurtev, R.; Marocco, Federico; Jones, H.R.A.; Beamin, J.C.; Napiwotzki, Ralf; Borissova, J.; Burningham, B.; Faherty, J.; Pinfield, D.J.; Gromadzki, M.; Ivanov, V.D.; Minniti, D.; Stimson, W.; Villanueva, V. (2015-12-21)
      We report the discovery of an L dwarf companion to the A3V star β Circini. VVV J151721.49−585131.5, or β Cir B, was identified in a proper motion and parallax catalogue of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea survey as ...

    • Discovery of a new Y dwarf: WISE J030449.03-270508.3 

      Pinfield, D.J.; Gromadzki, M.; Leggett, S.K.; Gomes, J.; Lodieu, N.; Kurtev, R.; Day-Jones, A. C.; Ruiz, M. T.; Cook, N. J.; Morley, C.V.; Marley, M. S.; Marocco, F.; Smart, R.L.; Jones, H.R.A.; Lucas, P.W.; Beletsky, Y.; Ivanov, V. D.; Burningham, B.; Jenkins, J. S.; Cardoso, C.; Frith, J.; Clarke, J. R. A.; Gálvez-Ortiz, M. C.; Zhang, Z. (2014-10-21)
      We present a new Y dwarf, WISE J030449.03−270508.3, confirmed from a candidate sample designed to pick out low-temperature objects from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) data base. The new object is typed Y0pec ...

    • Low-resolution near-infrared spectroscopic signatures of unresolved ultracool companions to M dwarfs 

      Cook, Neil; Pinfield, D. J.; Marocco, F.; Burningham, B.; Jones, H. R. A.; Frith, J.; Zhong, J.; Luo, A. L.; Qi, Z. X.; Cowan, N. B.; Gromadzki, M.; Kurtev, R.G.; Guo, Y. X.; Wang, Y. F.; Song, Y. H.; Yi, Z. P.; Smart, R. L. (2017-06-01)
      We develop a method to identify the spectroscopic signature of unresolved L-dwarf ultracool companions, which compares the spectra of candidates and their associated control stars using spectral ratio differences and ...

    • New galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey : Candidates projected on the inner disk and bulge 

      Borissova, J.; Chené, A. N.; Ramírez Alegría, S.; Sharma, S.; Clarke, J. R. A.; Kurtev, R.; Negueruela, I.; Marco, A.; Amigo, P.; Minniti, D.; Bica, E.; Bonatto, C.; Catelan, M.; Fierro, C.; Geisler, D.; Gromadzki, M.; Hempel, M.; Hanson, M. M.; Ivanov, V. D.; Lucas, P.W.; Majaess, D.; Moni Bidin, C.; Popescu, B.; Saito, R.K. (2014-09)
      Context. VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) is one of six ESO Public Surveys using the 4 meter Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). The VVV survey covers the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent ...

    • Searching for Faint Comoving Companions to the α Centauri system in the VVV Survey Infrared Images 

      Beamin, J.C.; Minniti, D.; Pullen, J. B.; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Bendek, E.; Bayo, A.; Gromadzki, M.; Kurtev, R.; Lucas, P. W.; Butler, R. P. (2017-12-21)
      The VVV survey has observed the southern disk of the Milky Way in the near infrared, covering 240 deg$^{2}$ in the $ZYJHK_S$ filters. We search the VVV Survey images in a $\sim$19 deg$^{2}$ field around $\alpha$ Centauri, ...

    • Ultracool dwarf benchmarks with \emph{Gaia} primaries 

      Marocco, F.; Pinfield, D. J.; Cook, N. J.; Osorio, M. R. Zapatero; Montes, D.; Caballero, J. A.; Gálvez-Ortiz, M. C.; Gromadzki, M.; Jones, H. R. A.; Kurtev, R.; Smart, R. L.; Zhang, Z.; Lavers, A. L. Cabrera; Álvarez, D. García; Qi, Z. X.; Rickard, M. J.; Dover, L. (2017-10-01)
      We explore the potential of \emph{Gaia} for the field of benchmark ultracool/brown dwarf companions, and present the results of an initial search for metal-rich/metal-poor systems. A simulated population of resolved ultracool ...

    • VIRAC: The VVV Infrared Astrometric Catalogue 

      Smith, L. C.; Lucas, P. W.; Kurtev, R.; Smart, R.; Minniti, D.; Borissova, J.; Jones, H. R. A; Zhang, Z. H.; Marocco, F.; Peña, C. Contreras; Gromadzki, M.; Kuhn, M. A.; Drew, J. E.; Pinfield, D. J.; Bedin, L.R. (2018-02-21)
      We present VIRAC version 1, a near-infrared proper motion and parallax catalogue of the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey for 312 587 642 unique sources averaged across all overlapping pawprint and tile images ...

    • VVV High proper motion stars I. The catalogue of bright Ks stars 

      Kurtev, R.; Gromadzki, M.; Beamin, J. C.; Folkes, S. L.; Ramirez, K. Pena; Ivanov, V. D.; Borissova, J.; Villanueva, V.; Minniti, D.; Mendez, R.; Lucas, P. W.; Smith, L. C.; Pinfield, D. J.; Kuhn, M. A.; Jones, H. R. A.; Antonova, A.; Yip, A. K. P. (2017-01-01)
      Knowledge of the stellar content near the Sun is important for a broad range of topics ranging from the search for planets to the study of Milky Way structure. The most powerful method for identifying potentially nearby ...

    • VVV High Proper Motion Survey 

      Gromadzki, M.; Kurtev, R.; Folkes, S.; Beamin, J. C.; Pena Ramirez, K.; Borissova, J.; Pinfield, D.J.; Jones, H.R.A.; Minniti, D.; Ivanov, V.D. (2013-10-15)
      Here we present survey of proper motion stars towards the Galactic Bulge and an adjacent plane region base on VISTA-VVV data. The searching method based on cross-matching photometric Ks-band CASU catalogs. The most interesting ...

    • Young Stellar Clusters Containing Massive Young Stellar Objects in the VVV Survey 

      Borissova, J.; Alegría, S. Ramírez; Alonso, J.; Lucas, P. W.; Kurtev, R.; Medina, N.; Navarro, C.; Kuhn, M.; Gromadzki, M.; Retamales, G.; Fernandez, M. A.; Agurto-Gangas, C.; Chené, A. -N.; Minniti, D.; Peña, C. Contreras; Catelan, M.; Decany, I.; Thompson, M. A.; Morales, E. F. E.; Amigo, P. (2016-09-06)
      The purpose of this research is to study the connection of global properties of eight young stellar clusters projected in the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Large Public Survey disk area and their young stellar ...