Parallaxes of ultra cool brown dwarf calibrators.
Language
en
Article de revue
This item was published in
Memorie della Societa astronomica italiana. 2014, vol. 85, p. 793
Società astronomica italiana
English Abstract
Brown dwarfs are extremely important objects for our understanding of stellar and planetary formation and evolution. Lying at the limit of the coolest stars, they are poorly understood and the atmospheric models of are not ...Read more >
Brown dwarfs are extremely important objects for our understanding of stellar and planetary formation and evolution. Lying at the limit of the coolest stars, they are poorly understood and the atmospheric models of are not yet reliable. Beyond this population, very cool brown dwarfs (Teff˜300 K) were recently discovered constituting new spectral classes. A precise distance is the fundamental parameter to be able to correctly derive their masses, ages and thus calibrate the atmospheric models of this type of object. In 2012 we started an observational program to measure the trigonometric parallax of 5 such extreme objects recently detected prototypes of cool brown dwarfs. Observations started at the 4.1m SOAR/Spartan telescope and will continue until the end of 2014. Here we present an overview on the development of this project.Read less <
English Keywords
Stars: brown dwarf
Stars: trigonometric parallax
Stars: formation
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Hal imported