Browsing University of Hertfordshire by Author "Smart, R."

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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 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. ...

    • 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 ...

    • The Properties of the 500 K Dwarf UGPS J072227.51-054031.2, and a Study of the Far-Red Flux of Cold Brown Dwarfs 

      Leggett, S.; Saumon, D.; Marley, M.; Lodders, K.; Canty, J.; Lucas, P.W.; Smart, R.; Tinney, C.; Homeier, D.; Allard, F.; Burningham, B.; Day-Jones, A.; Fegley, B.; Ishii, Miki; Jones, H.R.A.; Marocco, F.; Pinfield, D.J.; Tamura, M. (2012-04-01)
      We present i and z photometry for 25 T dwarfs and one L dwarf. Combined with published photometry, the data show that the i - z, z - Y and z - J colors of T dwarfs are very red, and continue to increase through to the ...

    • 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 ...