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        A New Population of Brown Dwarfs

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        Hawkins, M.R.S.
        Ducourant, C.
        Jones, H.R.A.
        Rapaport, M.
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        2299/1527
        Abstract
        A large area deep survey for brown dwarfs from digitally stacked 1.2m Schmidt plates has revealed a population of very red stars (R-I>3). On the basis of their colours, near IR spectra and their luminosity estimates from proper motions, these objects appeared to be Brown Dwarfs. First measurements of the parallaxes of 8 of the reddest objects at the 1.5 danish telescope confirmed this, and showed that four of them have K-band luminosities some mags below the bottom of the main sequence. We present here those results.
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        1998
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        In: Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets - ASP Conf Series 134
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        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/1527
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