Browsing by Author "Smith, Leigh"

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    • A 1500 deg(2) near infrared proper motion catalogue from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey 

      Smith, Leigh; Lucas, P.W.; Burningham, B.; Jones, H.R.A.; Smart, R.L.; Andrei, A.H.; Catalan, S.; Pinfield, D.J. (2014-02)
      The United Kingdom Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS) began in 2005, with the start of the UKIDSS programme as a 7 year effort to survey roughly 4000 deg(2) at high Galactic latitudes in Y, J, H and ...

    • A 2 epoch proper motion catalogue from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey 

      Smith, Leigh; Lucas, P.W.; Burningham, B.; Jones, H.R.A.; Pinfield, D.J.; Smart, Ricky; Andrei, Alexandre (EDP Sciences, 2013)
      The UKIDSS Large Area Survey (LAS) began in 2005, with the start of the UKIDSS program as a 7 year effort to survey roughly 4000 square degrees at high galactic latitudes in Y, J, H and K bands. The survey also included a ...

    • 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 ...

    • The asymptotic evolution of the stellar merger V1309 Sco: a Blue Straggler in the making? 

      Ferreira, Thiago; Saito, Roberto K.; Minniti, Dante; Navarro, María Gabriela; Ramos, Rodrigo Contreras; Smith, Leigh; Lucas, Philip W. (2019-06-01)
      Stellar mergers are estimated to be common events in the Galaxy. The best studied stellar merger case to date is V1309 Sco (= Nova Scorpii 2008) which was originally misclassified as a Nova event. Later identified as the ...

    • The brightest pure-H ultracool white dwarf 

      Catalan, S.; Tremblay, P. -E.; Pinfield, D.J.; Smith, Leigh; Zhang, Z. H.; Napiwotzki, R.; Marocco, F.; Day-Jones, A. C.; Gomes, J.; Forde, K.P.; Lucas, P.W.; Jones, H.R.A. (2012-10)
      We report the identification of LSR J0745+2627 in the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS) as a cool white dwarf with kinematics and age compatible with the thick-disk/halo ...

    • 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 ...

    • The discovery of a T6.5 subdwarf 

      Burningham, B.; Smith, Leigh; Cardoso, C. V.; Lucas, P.W.; Burgasser, A. J.; Jones, H.R.A.; Smart, R.L. (2014-05)
      We report the discovery of ULAS J131610.28+075553.0, an sdT6.5 dwarf in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey 2 epoch proper motion catalogue. This object displays significant spectral peculiarity, with the largest yet seen deviations ...

    • 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 extremely red L dwarf ULAS J222711-004547-dominated by dust 

      Marocco, F.; Day-Jones, A. C.; Lucas, P.W.; Jones, H.R.A.; Smart, R.L.; Zhang, Z. H.; Gomes, J. I.; Burningham, B.; Pinfield, D.J.; Raddi, R.; Smith, Leigh (2014-03)
      We report the discovery of a peculiar L dwarf from the United Kingdom Infrared Deep Sky Survey Large Area Survey, ULAS J222711-004547. The very red infrared photometry (MKO J-K = 2.79 +/- 0.06, WISEW1-W2 = 0.65 +/- 0.05) ...

    • High proper motion objects from the UKIDSS Galactic plane survey 

      Smith, Leigh; Lucas, P.W.; Bunce, R.; Burningham, B.; Jones, H.R.A.; Smart, R.L.; Skrzypek, N.; Rodriguez, D. R.; Faherty, J.; Barentsen, G.; Drew, J.E.; Andrei, A.H.; Catalán, S.; Pinfield, D.J.; Redburn, D. (2014-09-21)
      The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) began in 2005 as a seven year effort to survey ~1800 deg2 of the northern Galactic plane in the J, H, and K passbands. The survey included a second epoch of K-band data, with a baseline ...

    • NPARSEC : NTT Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects. Goals, targets, procedures and first results 

      Smart, R.L.; Tinney, C.G.; Bucciarelli, B.; Marocco, F.; Abbas, U.; Andrei, A.; Bernardi, G.; Burningham, B.; Cardoso, C.; Costa, E.; Crosta, M.T.; Dapra, M.; Day-Jones, A.; Goldman, B.; Jones, H.R.A.; Lattanzi, M.G.; Leggett, S.K.; Lucas, P.W.; Mendez, R.; Penna, J.L.; Pinfield, D.J.; Smith, Leigh; Sozzetti, A.; Vecchiato, A. (2013-08)
      The discovery and subsequent detailed study of T dwarfs have provided many surprises and pushed the physics and modelling of cool atmospheres in unpredicted directions. Distance is a critical parameter for studies of these ...

    • On the incidence of episodic accretion in Class I YSOs from VVV 

      Peña, Carlos Contreras; Lucas, Philip W.; Guo, Zhen; Smith, Leigh (2024-02-01)
      Episodic accretion is one of the competing models to explain the observed luminosity spread in young stellar clusters. These short-lived high accretion events could also have a strong impact on planet formation. Observations ...

    • Transverse kinematics of the Galactic bar-bulge from VVV and Gaia 

      Sanders, Jason L.; Smith, Leigh; Evans, N. Wyn; Lucas, Philip (2019-08)
      We analyse the kinematics of the Galactic bar-bulge using proper motions from the ESO public survey Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) and the second Gaia data release. Gaia has provided some of the first absolute ...