The First Hundred Brown Dwarfs Discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)

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 (WISE). Eighty of these are cold brown dwarfs with spectral types ≥T6, six of which have been announced earlier by...

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Main Authors: Bochanski, John J. (Contributor), Simcoe, Robert A. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2013-01-24T16:17:22Z.
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