Bibcode
Tata, R.; Martin, E. L.; Kendall, T.; Jameson, R.; Magazzu, A.; Barrado y Navascues, D.
Referencia bibliográfica
Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana, v.77, p.1167 (2006)
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2006
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Descripción
On behalf of the UKIDSS consortium, we present the first brown dwarfs
found in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey(UKIDSS). UKIDSS began in
May 2005 and will survey 7500 square degrees of the Northern sky,
extending over both high and low Galactic latitudes, in JHK to K=18.3.
This depth is three magnitudes deeper than 2MASS. UKIDSS searches for
the nearest and smallest objects in the solar neighborhood. This survey
is deep enough to detect brown dwarfs and young free floating planets
with as little as 5 Jupiter masses with-in distance of few tens of
parsecs. The UKIDSS should find brown dwarfs even cooler than T dwarfs,
Teff <700K, a new spectral class tentatively named Y
dwarfs (Leggett et al 2005). The combination of IR and optical colors,
and large expected proper motions, will allow the UKIDSS to find halo
brown dwarfs if they exist, testing the universality of star formation
processes, and the formation history of the Milky Way. The brown dwarf
candidates were selected based on their YJHK colors. Follow-up
photometry of the candidates presented here was done using the CTIO-4m
Blanco telescope with ISPI. Follow up spectroscopy was obtained using
the 4.2-m William Herschel telescope with LIRIS, and the 3.5-m Galileo
telescope with DOLORES. The spectroscopy confirms 3 L Dwarfs and 1 T
Dwarf among these candidates.