37 NEW T-TYPE BROWN DWARFS IN THE CANADA-FRANCE BROWN DWARFS SURVEY
- Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation, 65-1238 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela, HI 96743 (United States)
- Departement de physique and Observatoire du mont Megantic, Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3J7 (Canada)
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews, KY16 9SS (United Kingdom)
- Observatoire de Besancon, Universite de Franche-Comte, Institut Utinam, UMR CNRS 6213, BP1615, 25010 Besan con Cedex (France)
- UJF-Grenoble 1/CNRS-INSU, Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG) UMR 5274, Grenoble, F-38041 (France)
The Canada-France Brown Dwarfs Survey is an i'- and z'-band survey realized with MegaCam at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope that covers a surface area of 780 deg{sup 2}. Image analysis is now completed while J-band follow-up campaigns are {approx}90% done. The survey identified about 70 T dwarf candidates, of which 43 now have near-infrared spectra obtained with NIRI and GNIRS at Gemini and ISAAC at the Very Large Telescope. Six of these were previously published and we present here the 37 new discoveries, all T dwarfs. They range from T0 to T8.5 with four being of type T7 or later. Both newly identified T8 dwarfs are possibly high log (g) massive brown dwarfs of thin disk age. One T4.5 dwarf shows signs of sub-metallicity. We present proper motions and near-infrared photometry, and discuss about the most peculiar/interesting objects in some details.
- OSTI ID:
- 21583092
- Journal Information:
- Astronomical Journal (New York, N.Y. Online), Vol. 141, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/141/6/203; ISSN 1538-3881
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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