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    • 47 new T dwarfs from the UKIDDS large area survey 

      Burningham, B.; Pinfield, D.J.; Lucas, P.W.; Leggett, S.K.; Deacon, Niall; Tamura, M.; Tinney, C.G.; Lodieu, N.; Zhang, Z.; Huelamo, N.; Jones, H.R.A.; Murray, D.N.; Mortlock, D.J.; Patel, M.; Barrado y Navascues, D.; Zapatero Osorio, M.R.; Ishii, M.; Kuzuhara, M.; Smart, R.L. (2010)
      We report the discovery of 47 new T dwarfs in the Fourth Data Release (DR4) from the Large Area Survey (LAS) of the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey with spectral types ranging from T0 to ...

    • 76 T dwarfs from the UKIDSS LAS : benchmarks, kinematics and an updated space density 

      Burningham, B.; Cardoso, C. V.; Smith, Leigh; Leggett, S.K.; Smart, R.L.; Mann, A. W.; Dhital, S.; Lucas, P.W.; Tinney, C.G.; Pinfield, D.J.; Zhang, Z.; Morley, C.; Saumon, D.; Aller, K.; Littlefair, S. P.; Homeier, D.; Lodieu, N.; Deacon, Niall; Marley, M. S.; van Spaandonk, L.; Baker, D.; Allard, F.; Andrei, A.H.; Canty, J.; Clarke, J.; Day-Jones, A. C.; Dupuy, T.; Fortney, J. J.; Gomes, J.; Ishii, M.; Jones, H.R.A.; Liu, M.; Magazzu, A.; Marocco, F.; Murray, D. N.; Rojas-Ayala, B.; Tamura, M. (2013-07)
      We report the discovery of 76 new T dwarfs from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS). Near-infrared broad- and narrow-band photometry and spectroscopy are presented for the new objects, along ...

    • Astrometric and photometric initial mass functions from the UKIDSS Galactic Clusters Survey - I. The Pleiades 

      Lodieu, N.; Deacon, N. R.; Hambly, N. C. (2012-05-01)
      We present the results of a deep wide-field near-infrared survey of the entire Pleiades cluster recently released as part of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Galactic Clusters Survey (GCS) Data Release 9 (DR9). ...

    • Astrometric and photometric initial mass functions from the UKIDSS Galactic Clusters Survey - II. The Alpha Persei open cluster 

      Lodieu, N.; Deacon, N. R.; Hambly, N. C.; Boudreault, S. (2012-11-11)
      We present the results of a deep (J = 19.1mag) infrared (ZYJHK) survey over the full α Per open cluster extracted from the Data Release 9 of the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Infrared Deep Sky Survey Galactic Clusters ...

    • Astrometric and photometric initial mass functions from the UKIDSS Galactic Clusters Survey - III. Praesepe 

      Boudreault, S.; Lodieu, N.; Deacon, N. R.; Hambly, N. C. (2012-11-11)
      Over the past decades open clusters have been the subject of many studies. Such studies are crucial considering that the universality of the initial mass function is still a subject of current investigations. Praesepe is ...

    • Blue not brown: UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey T dwarfs with suppressed K-band flux 

      Murray, D. N.; Burningham, B.; Jones, H.R.A.; Pinfield, D.J.; Lucas, P.W.; Leggett, S. K.; Tinney, C. G.; Day-Jones, A. C.; Weights, D. J.; Lodieu, N.; Perez Prieto, J. A.; Nickson, E.; Zhang, Z. H.; Clarke, J. R. A.; Jenkins, J. S.; Tamura, M. (2011-06)
      We have used blue near-infrared colours to select a group of 12 spectroscopically confirmed United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) T dwarfs later than T4. From amongst these, we identify ...

    • 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 ...

    • Disc frequencies for brown dwarfs in the Upper Scorpius OB association : implications for brown dwarf formation theories 

      Riaz, B.; Lodieu, N.; Goodwin, S.; Stamatellos, D.; Thompson, M. (2012-03-01)
      We have investigated the brown dwarf (BD) and stellar disc fractions in the Upper Scorpius OB Association (USco) and compared them with several other young regions. We have compiled the most complete sample of of all ...

    • 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 ...

    • The discovery of a very cool binary system 

      Burningham, B.; Leggett, S.K.; Lucas, P.W.; Pinfield, D.J.; Smart, R.L.; Day-Jones, A.C.; Jones, H.R.A.; Murray, D.N.; Nickson, E.; Tamura, M.; Zhang, Z.; Lodieu, N.; Tinney, C.G.; Zapatero Osorio, M.R. (2010)
      We report the discovery of a very cool d/sdL7+T7.5p common proper motion binary system, SDSS J1416+13AB, found by cross-matching the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area ...

    • The discovery of an M4+T8.5 binary system 

      Burningham, B.; Pinfield, D.J.; Leggett, S.K.; Tinney, C.G.; Liu, M.C.; Homeier, D.; West, A.A.; Day-Jones, A.C.; Huelamo, N.; Dupuy, T.J.; Zhang, Z.; Murray, D.N.; Lodieu, N.; Navascues, D.B.Y.; Folkes, S.; Galvez-Ortiz, M.C.; Jones, H.R.A.; Lucas, P.W.; Calderon, M.M.; Tamura, M. (2009)
      We report the discovery of a T8.5 dwarf, which is a companion to the M4 dwarf Wolf 940. [Please see original online abstract for complete version with correct notation]

    • Discovery of the benchmark metal poor T8 dwarf BD+01 2920B 

      Pinfield, D.J.; Burningham, B.; Lodieu, N.; Leggett, S.; Tinney, C.G.; van Spaandonk, L.; Marocco, F.; Smart, R.; Gomes, J.; Smith, Leigh; Lucas, P.W.; Day-jones, A.; Murray, D.; Katsiyannis, A. C.; Catalan, S.; Cardoso, C.; Clarke, James; Folkes, S.; Galvez-Ortiz, M.; Homeier, D.; Jenkins, J.; Jones, H.R.A.; Zhang, Z. (2012)
      We have searched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer first data release for widely separated (<=10,000AU) late T dwarf companions to Hipparcos and Gliese stars. We have discovered a new binary system containing a K-band ...

    • The discovery of the T8.5 dwarf UGPS J0521+3640 

      Burningham, B.; Lucas, P.W.; Leggett, S.K.; Smart, R.; Baker, D.; Pinfield, D.J.; Tinney, C. G.; Homeier, D.; Allard, F.; Zhang, Z. H.; Gomes, J.; Day-Jones, A. C.; Jones, H.R.A.; Kovacs, G.; Lodieu, N.; Marocco, F.; Murray, D. N.; Sipocz, B. (2011-06)
      We have carried out a search for late-type T dwarfs in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Galactic Plane Survey 6th Data Release. The search yielded two persuasive candidates, both of which have been confirmed as T dwarfs. ...

    • The EChO science case 

      Tinetti, Giovanna; Drossart, Pierre; Eccleston, Paul; Hartogh, Paul; Isaak, Kate; Linder, Martin; Lovis, Christophe; Micela, Giusi; Ollivier, Marc; Puig, Ludovic; Ribas, Ignasi; Snellen, Ignas; Allard, Bruce Swinyard France; Barstow, Joanna; Cho, James; Coustenis, Athena; Cockell, Charles; Correia, Alexandre; Decin, Leen; Kok, Remco de; Deroo, Pieter; Encrenaz, Therese; Forget, Francois; Glasse, Alistair; Griffith, Caitlin; Guillot, Tristan; Koskinen, Tommi; Lammer, Helmut; Leconte, Jeremy; Maxted, Pierre; Mueller-Wodarg, Ingo; Nelson, Richard; North, Chris; Pallé, Enric; Pagano, Isabella; Piccioni, Guseppe; Pinfield, D.J.; Selsis, Franck; Sozzetti, Alessandro; Stixrude, Lars; Tennyson, Jonathan; Turrini, Diego; Beaulieu, Mariarosa Zapatero-Osorio Jean-Philippe; Grodent, Denis; Guedel, Manuel; Luz, David; Nørgaard-Nielsen, Hans Ulrik; Ray, Tom; Rickman, Hans; Selig, Avri; Banaszkiewicz, Mark Swain Marek; Barlow, Mike; Bowles, Neil; Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella; Foresto, Vincent Coudé du; Gerard, Jean-Claude; Gizon, Laurent; Hornstrup, Allan; Jarchow, Christopher; Kerschbaum, Franz; Kovacs, Géza; Lagage, Pierre-Olivier; Lim, Tanya; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Malaguti, Giuseppe; Pace, Emanuele; Pascale, Enzo; Vandenbussche, Bart; Wright, Gillian; Adriani, Gonzalo Ramos Zapata Alberto; Azzollini, Ruymán; Balado, Ana; Bryson, Ian; Burston, Raymond; Colomé, Josep; Foresto, Vincent Coudé du; Crook, Martin; Giorgio, Anna Di; Griffin, Matt; Hoogeveen, Ruud; Ottensamer, Roland; Irshad, Ranah; Middleton, Kevin; Morgante, Gianluca; Pinsard, Frederic; Rataj, Mirek; Reess, Jean-Michel; Savini, Giorgio; Schrader, Jan-Rutger; Stamper, Richard; Abe, Berend Winter L.; Abreu, M.; Achilleos, N.; Ade, P.; Adybekian, V.; Affer, L.; Agnor, C.; Agundez, M.; Alard, C.; Alcala, J.; Prieto, C. Allende; Floriano, F. J. Alonso; Altieri, F.; Iglesias, C. A. Alvarez; Amado, P.; Andersen, A.; Aylward, A.; Baffa, C.; Bakos, G.; Ballerini, P.; Banaszkiewicz, M.; Barber, R. J.; Barrado, D.; Barton, E. J.; Batista, V.; Bellucci, G.; Avilés, J. A. Belmonte; Berry, D.; Bézard, B.; Biondi, D.; Błęcka, M.; Boisse, I.; Bonfond, B.; Bordé, P.; Börner, P.; Bouy, H.; Brown, L.; Buchhave, L.; Budaj, J.; Bulgarelli, A.; Burleigh, M.; Cabral, A.; Capria, M. T.; Cassan, A.; Cavarroc, C.; Cecchi-Pestellini, C.; Cerulli, R.; Chadney, J.; Chamberlain, S.; Charnoz, S.; Jessen, N. Christian; Ciaravella, A.; Claret, A.; Claudi, R.; Coates, A.; Cole, R.; Collura, A.; Cordier, D.; Covino, E.; Danielski, C.; Damasso, M.; Deeg, H. J.; Delgado-Mena, E.; Vecchio, C. Del; Demangeon, O.; Sio, A. De; Wit, J. De; Dobrijévic, M.; Doel, P.; Dominic, C.; Dorfi, E.; Eales, S.; Eiroa, C.; Contreras, M. Espinoza; Esposito, M.; Eymet, V.; Fabrizio, N.; Fernández, M.; Castella, B. Femenía; Figueira, P.; Filacchione, G.; Fletcher, L.; Focardi, M.; Fossey, S.; Fouqué, P.; Frith, J.; Galand, M.; Gambicorti, L.; Gaulme, P.; López, R. J. García; Garcia-Piquer, A.; Gear, W.; Gerard, J. -C.; Gesa, L.; Giani, E.; Gianotti, F.; Gillon, M.; Giro, E.; Giuranna, M.; Gomez, H.; Gomez-Leal, I.; Hernandez, J. Gonzalez; Merino, B. González; Graczyk, R.; Grassi, D.; Guardia, J.; Guio, P.; Gustin, J.; Hargrave, P.; Haigh, J.; Hébrard, E.; Heiter, U.; Heredero, R. L.; Herrero, E.; Hersant, F.; Heyrovsky, D.; Hollis, M.; Hubert, B.; Hueso, R.; Israelian, G.; Iro, N.; Irwin, P.; Jacquemoud, S.; Jones, G.; Jones, H.R.A.; Justtanont, K.; Kehoe, T.; Kerschbaum, F.; Kerins, E.; Kervella, P.; Kipping, D.; Koskinen, T.; Krupp, N.; Lahav, O.; Laken, B.; Lanza, N.; Lellouch, E.; Leto, G.; Goldaracena, J. Licandro; Lithgow-Bertelloni, C.; Liu, S. J.; Cicero, U. Lo; Lodieu, N.; Lognonné, P.; Lopez-Puertas, M.; Lopez-Valverde, M. A.; Rasmussen, I. Lundgaard; Luntzer, A.; Machado, P.; MacTavish, C.; Maggio, A.; Maillard, J. -P.; Magnes, W.; Maldonado, J.; Mall, U.; Marquette, J.-B.; Mauskopf, P.; Massi, F.; Maurin, A. -S.; Medvedev, A.; Michaut, C.; Miles-Paez, P.; Montalto, M.; Rodríguez, P. Montañés; Monteiro, M.; Montes, D.; Morais, H.; Morales, J. C.; Morales-Calderón, M.; Morello, G.; Martín, A. Moro; Moses, J.; Bedon, A. Moya; Alcaino, F. Murgas; Oliva, E.; Orton, G.; Palla, F.; Pancrazzi, M.; Pantin, E.; Parmentier, V.; Parviainen, H.; Ramírez, K. Y. Peña; Peralta, J.; Perez-Hoyos, S.; Petrov, R.; Pezzuto, S.; Pietrzak, R.; Pilat-Lohinger, E.; Piskunov, N.; Prinja, R.; Prisinzano, L.; Polichtchouk, I.; Poretti, E.; Radioti, A.; Ramos, A. A.; Rank-Lüftinger, T.; Read, P.; Readorn, K.; López, R. Rebolo; Rebordão, J.; Rengel, M.; Rezac, L.; Rocchetto, M.; Rodler, F.; Béjar, V. J. Sánchez; Lavega, A. Sanchez; Sanromá, E.; Santos, N.; Forcada, J. Sanz; Scandariato, G.; Schmider, F. -X.; Scholz, A.; Scuderi, S.; Sethenadh, J.; Shore, S.; Showman, A.; Sicardy, B.; Sitek, P.; Smith, A.; Soret, L.; Sousa, S.; Stiepen, A.; Stolarski, M.; Strazzulla, G.; Tabernero, H. M; Tanga, P.; Tecsa, M.; Temple, J.; Terenzi, L.; Tessenyi, M.; Testi, L.; Thompson, S.; Thrastarson, H.; Tingley, B. W.; Trifoglio, M.; Torres, J. Martín; Tozzi, A.; Turrini, D.; Varley, R.; Vakili, F.; Val-Borro, M. de; Valdivieso, M. L.; Venot, O.; Villaver, E.; Vinatier, S.; Viti, S.; Waldmann, I.; Waltham, D.; Ward-Thompson, D.; Waters, R.; Watkins, C.; Watson, D.; Wawer, P.; Wawrzaszk, A.; White, G.; Widemann, T.; Winek, W.; Wiśniowski, T.; Yelle, R.; Yung, Y.; Yurchenko, S.N. (2015-12-01)
      The discovery of almost 2000 exoplanets has revealed an unexpectedly diverse planet population. Observations to date have shown that our Solar System is certainly not representative of the general population of planets in ...

    • Eight new T4.5-T7.5 dwarfs discovered in the UKIDSS large area survey data release 1 

      Lodieu, N.; Pinfield, D.J.; Leggett, S.K.; Jameson, R.F.; Mortlock, D.J.; Warren, S.J.; Deacon, Niall (2007)

    • Fifteen new T dwarfs discovered in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey 

      Pinfield, D.J.; Burningham, B.; Tamura, M.; Leggett, S.K.; Lodieu, N.; Lucas, P.W.; Mortlock, D.J.; Warren, S.J.; Homeier, D.; Ishi, M.; Deacon, Niall; McMahon, R.G.; Hewett, P.C.; Zapatero Osorio, M.R.; Martin, E.L.; Jones, H.R.A.; Venemans, B.P.; Day-Jones, A.C.; Dobbie, P.D.; Folkes, S.; Dye, S.; Allard, F.; Baraffe, I.; Barrado y Navascues, D.; Casewell, S.L.; Chiu, K.; Chabrier, G.; Clarke, F.; Hodgkin, S.T.; Magazzu, A.; McCaughrean, M.J.; Moraux, E.; Nakajima, T.; Pavlenko, Y.; Tinney, C.G. (2008)
      We present the discovery of fifteen new T2.5-T7.5 dwarfs (with estimated distances between 24–93pc), identified in the first three main data releases of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey. This brings the total number of ...

    • The first planet detected in the WTS : an inflated hot-Jupiter in a 3.35 day orbit around a late F-star [ERRATUM] 

      Cappetta, M.; Saglia, R.P.; Birkby, J. L.; Koppenhoefer, J.; Pinfield, D.J.; Hodgkin, S.T.; Cruz, P.; Kovacs, G.; Sipocz, B.; Barrado, D.; Nefs, B.; Pavlenko, Y. V.; Fossati, L.; Burgo, C. del; Martin, E. L.; Snellen, I.; Barnes, J.; Campbell, D. A.; Catalan, S.; Galvez-Ortiz, M. C.; Goulding, N.; Haswell, C.; Ivanyuk, O.; Jones, H.R.A.; Kuznetsov, M.; Lodieu, N.; Marocco, F.; Mislis, D.; Murgas, F.; Napiwotzki, R.; Palle, E.; Pollacco, D.; Baro, L. Sarro; Solano, E.; Steele, P.; Stoev, H.; Tata, R.; Zendejas, J. (2014-11-11)
      We report the discovery of WTS-1b, the first extrasolar planet found by the WFCAM Transit Survey, which began observations at the 3.8-m United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in August 2007. Light curves comprising ...

    • Identifying nearby field T dwarfs in the UKIDSS Galactic Clusters Survey 

      Lodieu, N.; Burningham, B.; Hambly, N.C.; Pinfield, D.J. (2009)
      We present the discovery of two new late-T dwarfs identified in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Galactic Clusters Survey (GCS) Data Release 2 (DR2). These T dwarfs are nearby old T dwarfs along the line of sight ...

    • On the origin of the ultramassive white dwarf GD 50 

      Dobbie, P.D.; Napiwotzki, R.; Lodieu, N.; Burleigh, M.R.; Barstow, M.A.; Jameson, R.F. (2006)

    • The Origins of the Ultramassive White Dwarf GD50 

      Dobbie, P.D.; Napiwotzki, R.; Lodieu, N.; Burleigh, M.R.; Barstow, M.A.; Jameson, R.F. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007)
      On the basis of astrometric and spectroscopic data we argue that the ultramassive white dwarf GD 50 is associated with the star formation event that created the Pleiades and is potentially a former cluster member. Its ...