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 …

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 …

VIRAC: the VVV Infrared Astrometric Catalogue

LC Smith, PW Lucas, R Kurtev, R Smart… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present VIRAC version 1, a near-infrared proper motion and parallax catalogue of the
VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey for 312 587 642 unique sources averaged …

The Initial Mass Function Based on the Full-sky 20 pc Census of∼ 3600 Stars and Brown Dwarfs

JD Kirkpatrick, F Marocco, CR Gelino… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
A complete accounting of nearby objects—from the highest-mass white dwarf progenitors
down to low-mass brown dwarfs—is now possible, thanks to an almost complete set of …

Astrometry and Photometry for≈ 1000 L, T, and Y Dwarfs from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey

AC Schneider, JA Munn, FJ Vrba… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the positions, proper motions, and near-infrared photometry for 966 known
objects with spectral types later than M that were observed as part of the the UKIRT …

A review on substellar objects below the deuterium burning mass limit: Planets, Brown Dwarfs or What?

JA Caballero - Geosciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
“Free-floating, non-deuterium-burning, substellar objects” are isolated bodies of a few
Jupiter masses found in very young open clusters and associations, nearby young moving …

Discovery of a Hypervelocity L Subdwarf at the Star/Brown Dwarf Mass Limit

AJ Burgasser, R Gerasimov, K Kremer… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of a high-velocity, very low-mass star or brown dwarf whose
kinematics suggest it is unbound to the Milky Way. CWISE J124909. 08+ 362116.0 was …

Retrieval of the d/sdL7+ T7. 5p Binary SDSS J1416+ 1348AB

EC Gonzales, B Burningham, JK Faherty… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the distance-calibrated spectral energy distribution (SED) of the d/sdL7 SDSS
J14162408+ 1348263A (J1416A) and an updated SED for SDSS J14162408+ 1348263B …

WISEA J041451. 67–585456.7 and WISEA J181006. 18–101000.5: The First Extreme T-type Subdwarfs?

AC Schneider, AJ Burgasser, R Gerasimov… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discoveries of WISEA J041451. 67− 585456.7 and WISEA J181006. 18−
101000.5, two low-temperature (1200–1400 K), high proper motion T-type subdwarfs. Both …

Primeval very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs–VIII. The first age benchmark L subdwarf, a wide companion to a halo white dwarf

ZH Zhang, R Raddi, AJ Burgasser… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We report the discovery of five white dwarf+ ultracool dwarf systems identified as common
proper motion wide binaries in the Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars. The discoveries include …