Atmospheres of brown dwarfs

C Helling, S Casewell - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2014 - Springer
Brown dwarfs are the coolest class of stellar objects known to date. Our present perception
is that brown dwarfs follow the principles of star formation, and that brown dwarfs share …

Discovery and spectroscopy of the young jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager

B Macintosh, JR Graham, T Barman, RJ De Rosa… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Directly detecting thermal emission from young extrasolar planets allows measurement of
their atmospheric compositions and luminosities, which are influenced by their formation …

The field substellar mass function based on the full-sky 20 pc census of 525 L, T, and Y dwarfs

JD Kirkpatrick, CR Gelino, JK Faherty… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present final Spitzer trigonometric parallaxes for 361 L, T, and Y dwarfs. We combine
these with prior studies to build a list of 525 known L, T, and Y dwarfs within 20 pc of the …

Improved estimates of the Milky Way's stellar mass and star formation rate from hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis

TC Licquia, JA Newman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present improved estimates of several global properties of the Milky Way, including its
current star formation rate (SFR), the stellar mass contained in its disk and bulge+ bar …

Individual Dynamical Masses of Ultracool Dwarfs

TJ Dupuy, MC Liu - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the full results of our decade-long astrometric monitoring programs targeting 31
ultracool binaries with component spectral types M7–T5. Joint analysis of resolved imaging …

UNCOVER: JWST Spectroscopy of Three Cold Brown Dwarfs at Kiloparsec-scale Distances

AJ Burgasser, R Bezanson, I Labbe… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report JWST/NIRSpec spectra of three distant T-type brown dwarfs identified in the
Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam ObserVations before the Epoch of Reionization …

A Volume-limited Sample of Ultracool Dwarfs. I. Construction, Space Density, and a Gap in the L/T Transition

WMJ Best, MC Liu, EA Magnier… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new volume-limited sample of L0–T8 dwarfs out to 25 pc defined entirely by
parallaxes, using our recent measurements from UKIRT/WFCAM along with Gaia DR2 and …

BANYAN. VII. A new population of young substellar candidate members of nearby moving groups from the BASS survey

J Gagné, JK Faherty, KL Cruz… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic follow-up survey of 182 M4–L7
low-mass stars and brown dwarfs (BDs) from the BANYAN All-Sky Survey (BASS) for …

Highlights of exoplanetary science from Spitzer

D Deming, HA Knutson - Nature Astronomy, 2020 - nature.com
Observations of extrasolar planets were not projected to be a substantial part of the Spitzer
Space Telescope's mission when it was conceived and designed. Nevertheless, Spitzer was …

Preliminary trigonometric parallaxes of 184 late-T and Y dwarfs and an analysis of the field substellar mass function into the “planetary” mass regime

JD Kirkpatrick, EC Martin, RL Smart… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present preliminary trigonometric parallaxes of 184 late-T and Y dwarfs using
observations from Spitzer (143), the US Naval Observatory (18), the New Technology …