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The First Hundred Brown Dwarfs Discovered by the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)We present ground-based spectroscopic verification of six Y dwarfs also Cushing et al.), eighty-nine T dwarfs, eight L dwarfs, and one M dwarf identified by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Eighty of these are cold brown dwarfs with spectral types > or =T6, six of which have been announced earlier in Mainzer et al. and I3urgasser et al. We present color-color and colortype diagrams showing the locus of M, L, T, and Y dwarfs in WISE color space. "
Document ID
20110022431
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Abstract
Authors
Kirkpatrick, J. Davy
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Cushing, Michael C.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Gelino, Christopher R.
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Griffith, Roger L.
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Skrutskie, Michael F.
(Virginia Univ. Charlottesville, VA, United States)
Marsh, Kenneth A.
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Wright, Edward L.
(California Univ. Los Angeles, CA, United States)
Mainzer, Amanda K.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Eisenhardt, Peter R.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
McLean, Ian S.
(California Univ. Los Angeles, CA, United States)
Bauer, James M.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Benford, Dominic J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Lake, Sean E.
(California Univ. Los Angeles, CA, United States)
Petty, Sara M.
(California Univ. Los Angeles, CA, United States)
Tsai, Chao-Wei
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Beichman, Charles
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Stapelfeldt, Karl R.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Stern, Daniel
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Vacca, William D.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2011
Subject Category
Astronomy
Report/Patent Number
GSFC.ABS.5265.2011
Report Number: GSFC.ABS.5265.2011
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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