Bridging the Gap Between Stars and Planets: The Formation and Early Evolution of Brown Dwarfs (2009)
Mohanty, Subhanjoy, Burgasser, Adam, Chabrier, Gilles, Padoan, Paolo, Hennebelle, Patrick, Pascucci, Ilaria, ...
This White Paper, submitted to the National Academy of Sciences' Astro2010 Decadal Review Committee, focuses on 2 central themes in the study of young brown dwarfs -- their formation mechanism and...
The Monitor project: Rotation periods of low-mass stars in M50 (2008)
Irwin, Jonathan, Aigrain, Suzanne, Bouvier, Jerome, Hebb, Leslie, Hodgkin, Simon, Irwin, Mike, ...
We report on the results of a time-series photometric survey of M50 (NGC 2323), a ~130 Myr open cluster, carried out using the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope and Mosaic-II detector as part of the Monitor...
Methane T-Dwarf Candidates in the Star Forming Region IC 348 (2008)
Burgess, Andrew, Bouvier, Jerome, Moraux, Estelle
IC 348 is a young (t$\sim$3Myr) and nearby (d$\sim$340pc) star forming region in the Perseus molecular cloud. We performed a deep imaging survey using the MEGACAM (z-band) and WIRCAM (JHK and...
Methane T-Dwarf Candidates in the Star Forming Region IC 348 (2008)
Burgess, Andrew, Bouvier, Jerome, Moraux, Estelle
IC~348 is a young (t$\sim$3Myr) and nearby (d$\sim$340pc) star forming region in the Perseus molecular cloud. We performed a deep imaging survey using the MEGACAM (z-band) and WIRCAM (JHK and...
Methane T-Dwarf Candidates in the Star Forming Region IC 348 (2008)
Burgess, Andrew, Bouvier, Jerome, Moraux, Estelle
IC~348 is a young (t$\sim$3Myr) and nearby (d$\sim$340pc) star forming region in the Perseus molecular cloud. We performed a deep imaging survey using the MEGACAM (z-band) and WIRCAM (JHK and...
Methane T-Dwarf Candidates in the Star Forming Region IC 348 (2008)
Burgess, Andrew, Bouvier, Jerome, Moraux, Estelle
IC~348 is a young (t$\sim$3Myr) and nearby (d$\sim$340pc) star forming region in the Perseus molecular cloud. We performed a deep imaging survey using the MEGACAM (z-band) and WIRCAM (JHK and...
Methane T-Dwarf Candidates in the Star Forming Region IC 348 (2008)
Burgess, Andrew, Bouvier, Jerome, Moraux, Estelle
IC~348 is a young (t$\sim$3Myr) and nearby (d$\sim$340pc) star forming region in the Perseus molecular cloud. We performed a deep imaging survey using the MEGACAM (z-band) and WIRCAM (JHK and...
Irwin, Jonathan, Hodgkin, Simon, Aigrain, Suzanne, Bouvier, Jerome, Hebb, Leslie, Irwin, Mike, ...
We report on the results of a time-series photometric survey of NGC 2362, carried out using the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope and Mosaic-II detector as part of the Monitor project. Rotation periods were...
The Monitor project: tracking the evolution of low mass and pre-main sequence stars (2007)
Aigrain, Suzanne, Irwin, Jonathan, Hebb, Leslie, Hodgkin, Simon, Miller, Adam, Moraux, Estelle, ...
The Monitor project is a large-scale program of photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of young open clusters using telescopes at ESO and other observatories. Its primary goal is to detect and...
The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster NGC 2547 (2007)
Irwin, Jonathan, Hodgkin, Simon, Aigrain, Suzanne, Bouvier, Jerome, Hebb, Leslie, Moraux, Estelle
We report on the results of an I-band time-series photometric survey of NGC 2547 using the MPG/ESO 2.2m telescope with WFI, achieving better than 1% photometric precision per data point over 14
Irwin, Jonathan, Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Stassun, Keivan G., Hebb, Leslie, Irwin, Mike, ...
We report the discovery of a low-mass (0.26 +/- 0.02, 0.15 +/- 0.01 Msol) pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary with a 5.3 day orbital period. JW 380 was detected as part of a high-cadence time-resolved...
The lower mass function of the young open cluster Blanco 1: from 30 Mjup to 3 Mo (2007)
Moraux, Estelle, Bouvier, Jerome, Stauffer, John, Navascues, David Barrado Y, Cuillandre, Jean-Charles
We performed a deep wide field optical survey of the young (~100-150 Myr) open cluster Blanco1 to study its low mass population well down into the brown dwarf regime and estimate its mass function...
The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster NGC 2516 (2007)
Irwin, Jonathan, Hodgkin, Simon, Aigrain, Suzanne, Hebb, Leslie, Bouvier, Jerome, Clarke, Cathie, ...
We report on the results of an i-band time-series photometric survey of NGC 2516 using the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope and 8k Mosaic-II detector, achieving better than 1% photometric precision per data...
The lower mass function of the young open cluster Blanco 1: from 30 Mjup to 3 Mo (2007)
Moraux, Estelle, Bouvier, Jerome, Stauffer, John, Barrado Y Navascues, David, Cuillandre, Jean-Charles
We performed a deep wide field optical survey of the young (~100-150 Myr) open cluster Blanco1 to study its low mass population well down into the brown dwarf regime and estimate its mass function...
The lower mass function of the young open cluster Blanco 1: from 30 Mjup to 3 Mo (2007)
Moraux, Estelle, Bouvier, Jerome, Stauffer, John, Barrado Y Navascues, David, Cuillandre, Jean-Charles
We performed a deep wide field optical survey of the young (~100-150 Myr) open cluster Blanco1 to study its low mass population well down into the brown dwarf regime and estimate its mass function...
The lower mass function of the young open cluster Blanco 1: from 30 Mjup to 3 Mo (2007)
Moraux, Estelle, Bouvier, Jerome, Stauffer, John, Barrado Y Navascues, David, Cuillandre, Jean-Charles
We performed a deep wide field optical survey of the young (~100-150 Myr) open cluster Blanco1 to study its low mass population well down into the brown dwarf regime and estimate its mass function...
The lower mass function of the young open cluster Blanco 1: from 30 Mjup to 3 Mo (2007)
Moraux, Estelle, Bouvier, Jerome, Stauffer, John, Barrado Y Navascues, David, Cuillandre, Jean-Charles
We performed a deep wide field optical survey of the young (~100-150 Myr) open cluster Blanco1 to study its low mass population well down into the brown dwarf regime and estimate its mass function...
The Monitor project: Data processing and lightcurve production (2006)
Irwin, Jonathan, Irwin, Mike, Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Hebb, Leslie, Moraux, Estelle
We have begun a large-scale photometric survey of nearby open clusters and star-forming regions, the Monitor project, aiming to measure time-series photometry for >10,000 cluster members over >10...
The Monitor project: Searching for occultations in young open clusters (2006)
Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Irwin, Jonathan, Hebb, Leslie, Irwin, Mike, Favata, Fabio, ...
The Monitor project is a photometric monitoring survey of nine young (1-200Myr) clusters in the solar neighbourhood to search for eclipses by very low mass stars and brown dwarfs and for planetary...
The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster M34 (2006)
Irwin, Jonathan, Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Irwin, Mike, Bouvier, Jerome, Clarke, Cathie, ...
We report on the results of a V and i-band time-series photometric survey of M34 (NGC 1039) using the Wide Field Camera (WFC) on the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT), achieving better than 1% precision...
The distribution of ejected brown dwarfs in clusters (2006)
Goodwin, Simon, Hubber, David, Moraux, Estelle, Whitworth, Anthony
We examine the spatial distribution of brown dwarfs produced by the decay of small-N stellar systems as expected from the embryo ejection scenario. We model a cluster of several hundred stars grouped...
Low-mass substellar candidates in NGC 2264 (2004)
Kendall, Tim, Bouvier, Jerome, Moraux, Estelle, James, David
NGC 2264 is a young (3 Myr), populous star forming region for which our optical studies have revealed a very high density of potential brown dwarf (BD) candidates - 236 in less than 1 sq. deg. - from...