The current population of benchmark brown dwarfs

Bibcode
2011EPJWC..1606012D
DOI
10.1051/epjconf/20111606012
Day-Jones, A. C.; Pinfield, D. J.; Ruiz, M. T.; Burningham, B.; Zhang, Z. H.; Jones, H. R. A.; Gálvez-Ortiz, M. C.; Gallardo, J.; Clarke, J. R. A.; Jenkins, J. S.
Bibliographical reference

Research, Science and Technology of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets: Proceedings of an International Conference held in Shangai on Occasion of a Total Eclipse of the Sun, Shangai, China, Edited by E.L. Martin; J. Ge; W. Lin; EPJ Web of Conferences, Volume 16, id.06012

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7
2011
Number of authors
10
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
1
Refereed citations
1
Description
The number of brown dwarfs (BDs) now identified tops 700. Yet our understanding of these cool objects is still lacking, and models are struggling to accurately reproduce observations. What is needed is a method of calibrating the models, BDs whose properties (e.g. age, mass, distance, metallicity) that can be independently determined can provide such calibration. The ability to calculate properties based on observables is set to be of vital importance if we are to be able to measure the properties of fainter, more distant populations of BDs that near-future surveys will reveal, for which ground based spectroscopic studies will become increasingly difficult. We present here the state of the current population of age benchmark brown dwarfs.
Type
Non-refereed

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