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A population of very young brown dwarfs and free-floating planets in Orion
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We describe the results of a very deep imaging survey of the Trapezium cluster in the IJH bands, using the UKIRT high-resolution camera UFTI. Approximately 32 per cent of the 515 point sources detected are brown dwarf candidates, including several free-floating objects with masses below the deuterium-burning (planetary) threshold at 0.013 M⊙, which are detectable because of their extreme youth. We have confidence that almost all the sources detected are cluster members, since foreground conta...
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- Published
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- Journal:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Volume:
- 314
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 858-864
- Publication date:
- 2000-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1365-2966
- ISSN:
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0035-8711
- Source identifiers:
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6414
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- English
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pubs:6414
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- pubs:6414
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2000
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