Browsing University of Hertfordshire by Author "Day-Jones, Avril"

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    • Discovery of a T dwarf + white dwarf binary system 

      Day-Jones, Avril; Pinfield, D.J.; Ruiz, M.; Beaumont, H.; Burningham, B.; Gallardo, J.; Gianninas, A.; Bergeron, P.; Napiwotzki, Ralf; Jenkins, J.S.; Zhang, Z.H.; Murray, D.N.; Catalan, Silvia; Ines Gomes, Joana (2011)
      We present the discovery of the first T dwarf + white dwarf binary system LSPM 1459+0857 AB, confirmed through common proper motion and spectroscopy. The white dwarf is a high proper motion object from the LSPM catalogue ...

    • Discovery of the first white dwarf + T dwarf binary system and the use of white dwarfs as age calibrators 

      Day-Jones, Avril; Pinfield, D.J.; Ruiz, M.; Beaumont, H.; Gallardo, J.; Gianninas, A.; Bergeron, P.; Napiwotzki, Ralf; Jenkins, J.S.; Burningham, B.; Zhang, Z.H.; Jones, H.R.A.; Murray, D.; Catalan, Silvia; Ines Gomes, Joana (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2010)
      We present the discovery of the first white dwarf + T dwarf binary system. Systems containing a white dwarf and a brown dwarf are rare but can be used to place constraints on the age of the binary, making them valuable ...

    • Fundamental properties of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs 

      Liu, M.C.; Stassun, K.G.; Allard, F.; Blake, C.H.; Bonnefoy, M.; Cody, A.M.; Day-Jones, Avril; Dupuy, T.J.; Kraus, A.; Lopez-Morales, M. (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2009)
      Precise measurements of the fundamental properties of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs are key to understanding the physics underlying their formation and evolution. While there has been great progress over the last decade ...

    • Measuring ultracool properties from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey 

      Day-Jones, Avril; Marocco, F.; Pinfield, D.J.; Zhang, Zenghua; Burningham, B.; Deacon, Niall; Ruiz, Maria-Teresa; Gallardo, Jose; Jones, H.R.A.; Lucas, P.W.; Jenkins, James; Gomes, Joana; Folkes, Stuart; Clarke, James (EDP Sciences, 2013)
      We discuss the properties and of ultracool and brown dwarfs that can be measured from current large area surveys and how fundamental parameters, such as the mass function and formation history can be measured, describing ...

    • A method for selecting M dwarfs with an increased likelihood of unresolved ultracool companionship 

      Cook, Neil; Pinfield, D.J.; Marocco, F.; Burningham, B.; Jones, H.R.A.; Frith, James; Zhong, J.; Luo, A.; Qi, Z.; Lucas, P.W.; Gromadzki, Mariusz; Day-Jones, Avril; Kurtev, Radostin; Guo, Y.; Wang, Y.; Bai, Y.; Yi, Z.; Smart, R. (2016-04-01)
      Locating ultracool companions to M dwarfs is important for constraining low-mass formation models, the measurement of substellar dynamical masses and radii, and for testing ultracool evolutionary models. We present an ...