Browsing Research publications by Author "Jones, H.R.A."

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    • 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 ...

    • Brown Dwarfs and low-mass stars in the Pleiades and Praesepe: membership and binarity 

      Pinfield, D.J.; Dobbie, P.D.; Jameson, R.F.; Steele, I.A.; Jones, H.R.A.; Katsiyannis, A. C. (2003)
      We present near infrared J-, H- and K-band photometry and optical spectroscopy of low-mass star and brown dwarf (BD) candidates in the Pleiades and Praesepe open clusters. We flag non-members from their position in K, I-K ...

    • Carbon abundances and 12C/13C from globular cluster giants -- 

      Pavlenko, Y.; Jones, H.R.A.; Longmore, A.J. (2003-10)

    • Carbon monoxide bands in M dwarfs 

      Pavlenko, Y.; Jones, H.R.A. (2002-12)

    • Carbon monoxide in low-mass dwarf stars 

      Jones, H.R.A.; Pavlenko, Y.; Viti, S.; Barber, R.J.; Yakovina, L.A.; Pinfield, D.J.; Tennyson, J. (2005-03)

    • Catalog of nearby exoplanets 

      Butler, R.P.; Wright, J.T.; Marcy, G.W.; Fischer, D.A.; Vogt, S.; Tinney, C.G.; Jones, H.R.A.; Carter, B.D.; Johnson, J.A.; McCarthy, C.; Penny, A.J. (2006)

    • A catalogue of bright (K <9) M dwarfs 

      Frith, J.; Pinfield, D.J.; Jones, H.R.A.; Barnes, J. R.; Pavlenko, Y.; Martin, E. L.; Brown, C.; Kuznetsov, M. K.; Marocco, F.; Tata, R.; Cappetta, M. (2013-11)
      Using the Position and Proper Motion Extended-L (PPMXL) catalogue, we have used optical and near-infrared colour cuts together with a reduced proper motion cut to find bright M dwarfs for future exoplanet transit studies. ...

    • Chromospheric activities and kinematics for solar type dwarfs and subgiants : analysis of the activity distribution and the AVR 

      Jenkins, J.S.; Murgas, F.; Rojo, P.; Jones, H.R.A.; Day-Jones, A.C.; Jones, M.I.; Clarke, J.R.A.; Ruiz, M.; Pinfield, D.J. (2011)
      Aims : In this work we present chromospheric activity indices, kinematics, radial-velocities, and rotational velocities for more than 850 FGK-type dwarfs and subgiant stars in the southern hemisphere and test how best to ...

    • A Comparison of the Infrared Spectra of Two Very Late-type M Dwarfs with Different Gravities 

      Viti, S.; Tennyson, J.; Jones, H.R.A.; Allard, F.; Hauschildt, P. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1998)
      We present observations obtained during the commissioning of the upgraded Cooled Grating Spectrometer 4 on the UK Infrared Telescope on Mauna Kea, of the very low-mass objects TVLM 513-46546 and Gl 569B. Spectra were taken ...

    • A Comparison of Water Vapour Line Lists 

      Jones, H.R.A.; Pavlenko, Y.; Viti, S.; Tennyson, J. (2003-10)

    • Constraining the difference in convective blueshift between the components of alpha Centauri with precise radial velocities 

      Pourbaix, D.; Nidever, D.; Butler, R.P.; Tinney, C.G.; Marcy, G.W.; Jones, H.R.A.; Penny, A.J.; Carter, B.D.; Bouchy, F.; Pepe, F.; Hearnshaw, J.B.; Skulijan, J.; Ramm, D.; Kent, D. (2002-04)
      New radial velocities of Cen A & B obtained in the framework the Anglo-Australian Planet Search programme as well as in the CORALIE programme are added to those by Endl et al. (2001) to improve the precision of the orbital ...

    • Cool dwarfs stars from the Torino Observatory Parallax Program 

      Smart, R.L.; Ioannidis, G.; Jones, H.R.A.; Bucciarelli, B.; Lattanzi, M.G. (2010)
      Aims. We investigate and parameterize high proper motion red stars in the Torino Observatory Parallax Program. Methods. Observations of 27 objects were made over the period 1994–2001 on the 1.05 m Torino telescope. The ...

    • 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 ...

    • A detailed analysis of the HD 73526 2:1 resonant planetary system 

      Wittenmyer, Robert A.; Tan, Xianyu; Lee, Man Hoi; Horner, Jonathan; Tinney, C.G.; Butler, R. P.; Salter, G. S.; Carter, B. D.; Jones, H.R.A.; O'Toole, S. J.; Bailey, J.; Wright, D.; Crane, J. D.; Schectman, S. A.; Arriagada, P.; Thompson, I.; Minniti, D.; Diaz, M. (2014-01-10)
      We present six years of new radial velocity data from the Anglo-Australian and Magellan Telescopes on the HD 73526 2:1 resonant planetary system. We investigate both Keplerian and dynamical ( interacting) fits to these ...

    • Direct imaging of long period radial velocity targets with NICI 

      Salter, Graeme S.; Tinney, Chris G.; Wittenmyer, Robert A.; Jenkins, James S.; Jones, H.R.A.; O'Toole, Simon J. (2013-06-30)
      We are finally entering an era where radial velocity and direct imaging parameter spaces are starting to overlap. Radial velocity measurements provide us with a minimum mass for an orbiting companion (the mass as a function ...

    • 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 ...

    • Discovery of a nearby L-T transition object in the Southern Galactic plane 

      Folkes, S.; Pinfield, D.J.; Kendall, T.R.; Jones, H.R.A. (2007)

    • Discovery of a new Y dwarf: WISE J030449.03-270508.3 

      Pinfield, D.J.; Gromadzki, M.; Leggett, S.K.; Gomes, J.; Lodieu, N.; Kurtev, R.; Day-Jones, A. C.; Ruiz, M. T.; Cook, N. J.; Morley, C.V.; Marley, M. S.; Marocco, F.; Smart, R.L.; Jones, H.R.A.; Lucas, P.W.; Beletsky, Y.; Ivanov, V. D.; Burningham, B.; Jenkins, J. S.; Cardoso, C.; Frith, J.; Clarke, J. R. A.; Gálvez-Ortiz, M. C.; Zhang, Z. (2014-10-21)
      We present a new Y dwarf, WISE J030449.03−270508.3, confirmed from a candidate sample designed to pick out low-temperature objects from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) data base. The new object is typed Y0pec ...

    • 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 ...

    • The discovery of a very cool binary system 

      Burningham, B.; Leggett, S.K.; Lucas, P.W.; Pinfield, D.J.; Smart, R.L.; Day-Jones, A.C.; Jones, H.R.A.; Murray, D.N.; Nickson, E.; Tamura, M.; Zhang, Z.; Lodieu, N.; Tinney, C.G.; Zapatero Osorio, M.R. (2010)
      We report the discovery of a very cool d/sdL7+T7.5p common proper motion binary system, SDSS J1416+13AB, found by cross-matching the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area ...