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 …

Retrieving scattering clouds and disequilibrium chemistry in the atmosphere of HR 8799e

P Mollière, T Stolker, S Lacour, G Otten… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Clouds are ubiquitous in exoplanet atmospheres and they represent a challenge
for the model interpretation of their spectra. When generating a large number of model …

Fundamental parameters and spectral energy distributions of young and field age objects with masses spanning the stellar to planetary regime

JC Filippazzo, EL Rice, J Faherty, KL Cruz… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine optical, near-infrared, and mid-infrared spectra and photometry to construct
expanded spectral energy distributions for 145 field age (> 500 Myr) and 53 young (lower …

Discovery of a warm, dusty giant planet around HIP 65426

G Chauvin, S Desidera, AM Lagrange, A Vigan… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Aims. The SHINE program is a high-contrast near-infrared survey of 600 young, nearby stars
aimed at searching for and characterizing new planetary systems using VLT/SPHERE's …

The 10 parsec sample in the Gaia era

C Reylé, K Jardine, P Fouqué, JA Caballero… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. The nearest stars provide a fundamental constraint for our understanding of stellar
physics and the Galaxy. The nearby sample serves as an anchor where all objects can be …

The Hawaii infrared parallax program. II. Young ultracool field dwarfs

MC Liu, TJ Dupuy, KN Allers - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a large, uniform analysis of young (≈ 10–150 Myr) ultracool dwarfs, based on
new high-precision infrared (IR) parallaxes for 68 objects. We find that low-gravity (vl-g) late …

BANYAN. II. Very low mass and substellar candidate members to nearby, young kinematic groups with previously known signs of youth

J Gagné, D Lafrenière, R Doyon, L Malo… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present Bayesian Analysis for Nearby Young AssociatioNs II (BANYAN II), a
modified Bayesian analysis for assessing the membership of later-than-M5 objects to any of …

Identification of 1.4 million active galactic nuclei in the mid-infrared using WISE Data

NJ Secrest, RP Dudik, BN Dorland… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an all-sky sample of≈ 1.4 million active galactic nuclei (AGNs) meeting a two-
color infrared photometric selection criteria for AGNs as applied to sources from the Wide …

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 …