The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy–an overview

Dark Energy Survey Collaboration:… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark
Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the …

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 …

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 …

The SpeX Prism Library: 1000+ low-resolution, near-infrared spectra of ultracool M, L, T and Y dwarfs

AJ Burgasser - arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.4887, 2014 - arxiv.org
The SpeX Prism Library (SPL) is a uniform compilation of low-resolution (R~ 75-120), near-
infrared (0.8-2.5 micron) spectra spanning a decade of observations with the IRTF SpeX …

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 …

The origin and universality of the stellar initial mass function

SSR Offner, PC Clark, P Hennebelle… - … and Planets VI, 2014 - books.google.com
We review current theories for the origin of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) with
particular focus on the extent to which the IMF can be considered universal across various …

Photometry and proper motions of M, L, and T dwarfs from the pan-STARRS1 3π survey

WMJ Best, EA Magnier, MC Liu, KM Aller… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of 9888 M, L and T dwarfs detected in the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey
(PS1), covering three-quarters of the sky. Our catalog contains nearly all known objects of …

SpeX spectroscopy of unresolved very low mass binaries. II. Identification of 14 candidate binaries with late-M/early-L and T dwarf components

DCB Gagliuffi, AJ Burgasser, CR Gelino… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Multiplicity is a key statistic for understanding the formation of very low mass (VLM) stars and
brown dwarfs. Currently, the separation distribution of VLM binaries remains poorly …