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 …

CARMENES input catalogue of M dwarfs-V. Luminosities, colours, and spectral energy distributions

C Cifuentes, JA Caballero, M Cortés-Contreras… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The relevance of M dwarfs in the search for potentially habitable Earth-sized
planets has grown significantly in the last years. Aims. In our on-going effort to …

The first hundred brown dwarfs discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)

JD Kirkpatrick, MC Cushing, CR Gelino… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present ground-based spectroscopic verification of 6 Y dwarfs (see also Cushing et al.),
89 T dwarfs, 8 L dwarfs, and 1 M dwarf identified by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer …

Weather on other worlds. II. Survey results: spots are ubiquitous on L and T dwarfs

SA Metchev, A Heinze, D Apai, D Flateau… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from the Weather on Other Worlds Spitzer Exploration Science program
to investigate photometric variability in L and T dwarfs, usually attributed to patchy clouds …

Discoveries from a near-infrared proper motion survey using multi-epoch Two Micron All-Sky Survey data

JD Kirkpatrick, DL Looper, AJ Burgasser… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We have conducted a 4030 deg 2 near-infrared proper motion survey using multi-epoch
data from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). We find 2778 proper motion candidates …

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 Hawaii Infrared Parallax Program. VI. The Fundamental Properties of 1000+ Ultracool Dwarfs and Planetary-mass Objects Using Optical to Mid-infrared Spectral …

A Sanghi, MC Liu, WMJ Best, TJ Dupuy… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We derive the bolometric luminosities (L bol) of 865 field-age and 189 young ultracool
dwarfs (spectral types M6–T9, including 40 new discoveries presented here) by directly …

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 …

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 …