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A Search for Brown Dwarfs in the Alpha Persei Cluster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Nicolas Lodieu ,
Mark McCaughrean ,
Jérôme Bouvier ,
David Barrado y Navascués  and
John R. Stauffer
Nicolas Lodieu
Affiliation:
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, D–14482 Potsdam, Germany
Mark McCaughrean
Affiliation:
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, D–14482 Potsdam, Germany
Jérôme Bouvier
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53, F–38041 Grenoble Cedex 09, France
David Barrado y Navascués
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental, INTA, P.O. Box 50727, E–28080 Madrid, Spain
John R. Stauffer
Affiliation:
IPAC, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Abstract

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We present preliminary results from a deep near-infrared survey of a ~ 1 square degree area in the young open cluster Alpha Persei using the wide-field Omega-Prime camera on the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope, yielding a list of new low-mass cluster members, including brown dwarf candidates.

Type
Part 4. Observations of Young Brown Dwarfs (age ≃ 50–200 Myr)
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 211: Brown Dwarfs , 2003 , pp. 179 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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