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NACO-SDI imaging of known companion host stars from the AAPS and Keck planet search surveys
(2010)
Context. Direct imaging of brown dwarfs as companions to solar-type stars can provide a wealth of well-constrained data to “benchmark” the physics of such objects, since quantities like metallicity and age can be determined ...
The discovery of a very cool, very nearby brown dwarf in the Galactic plane
(2010)
We report the discovery of a very cool, isolated brown dwarf, UGPS 0722−05, with the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Galactic Plane Survey. The near-infrared spectrum displays deeper H2O and CH4 ...
A long-period planet orbiting a nearby Sun-like star
(2010)
The Doppler wobble induced by the extra-solar planet HD 134987b was first detected by data from the Keck Telescope nearly a decade ago, and was subsequently confirmed by data from the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). ...
47 new T dwarfs from the UKIDDS large area survey
(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 ...
A search for molecules in the atmosphere of HD 189733b
(2010)
We use signal enhancement techniques and a matched filter analysis to search for the K-band spectroscopic absorption signature of the close orbiting extrasolar giant planet, HD 189733b. With time-series observations taken ...
Discovery of the first L dwarf plus giant binary system and eight other ultracool dwarfs in wide binaries
(2010)
We identify 806 ultracool dwarfs (of which 34 are newly discovered L dwarfs) from their Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) riz photometry and obtain proper motions through cross-matching with the United Kingdom Infrared ...
Low-mass Objects in Moving Groups
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2010)
We present here the kinematic study of part of a 132 target sample of low-mass objects, previously selected by photometric and astrometric criteria as possible members to five young moving groups (MGs): Local Association ...
A search for southern ultracool dwarfs in young moving groups
(2010)
We associate 132 low-mass ultracool dwarfs in the southern hemisphere as candidate members of five moving groups (MGs) using photometric and astrometric selection techniques. Of these objects, we present high-resolution ...