The formation and early evolution of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs

KL Luhman - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The discovery of large numbers of young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs over the past
decade has made it possible to investigate star formation and early evolution in a previously …

Stellar, brown dwarf and multiple star properties from a radiation hydrodynamical simulation of star cluster formation

MR Bate - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We report the statistical properties of stars, brown dwarfs and multiple systems obtained from
the largest radiation hydrodynamical simulation of star cluster formation to date that resolves …

VOSA: virtual observatory SED analyzer-An application to the Collinder 69 open cluster

A Bayo, C Rodrigo, DB y Navascués, E Solano… - Astronomy & …, 2008 - aanda.org
Context. The physical properties of almost any kind of astronomical object can be derived by
fitting synthetic spectra or photometry extracted from theoretical models to observational …

The disk population of the Taurus star-forming region

KL Luhman, PR Allen, C Espaillat… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We have analyzed nearly all images of the Taurus star-forming region at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0,
and 24 μm that were obtained during the cryogenic mission of the Spitzer Space Telescope …

UV excess measures of accretion onto young very low mass stars and brown dwarfs

GJ Herczeg, LA Hillenbrand - The Astrophysical Journal, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Low-resolution spectra from 3000 to 9000 Å of young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
were obtained with LRIS on Keck I. The excess UV and optical emission arising in the …

Ultracool dwarfs observed with the Spitzer infrared spectrograph – II. Emergence and sedimentation of silicate clouds in L dwarfs, and analysis of the full M5–T9 field …

G Suárez, S Metchev - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a uniform analysis of all mid-infrared R≈ 90 spectra of field M5–T9 dwarfs
obtained with the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph (IRS). The sample contains 113 spectra out …

Refining the census of the Upper Scorpius association with Gaia

KL Luhman, TL Esplin - The Astronomical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We have refined the census of stars and brown dwarfs in the Upper Sco association (∼ 10
Myr,∼ 145 pc) by (1) updating the selection of candidate members from our previous survey …

The Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Survey of T Tauri Stars in Taurus

E Furlan, KL Luhman, C Espaillat… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present 161 Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) spectra of T Tauri stars and
young brown dwarfs in the Taurus star-forming region. All of the targets were selected based …

A census of young stars and brown dwarfs in IC 348 and NGC 1333

KL Luhman, TL Esplin, NP Loutrel - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We have obtained optical and near-infrared spectra of candidate members of the star-
forming clusters IC 348 and NGC 1333. We classify 100 and 42 candidates as new …

Three wide planetary-mass companions to FW Tau, ROXs 12, and ROXs 42B

AL Kraus, MJ Ireland, LA Cieza, S Hinkley… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of three planetary-mass companions (M= 6–20 M Jup) in wide orbits
(ρ∼ 150–300 AU) around the young stars FW Tau (Taurus-Auriga), ROXs 12 (Ophiuchus) …