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A Large Area Survey for Brown Dwarfs in the Pleiades

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Simon Hodgkin*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK

Abstract

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We present the preliminary findings of a deep imaging survey covering 17 square degrees in the Pleiades. We have identified in excess of 300 candidate cluster members in the i, i-z diagram. The survey is complete to ~ i=22, with candidates detected as faint as i=23.

Type
Part 4. Observations of Young Brown Dwarfs (age ≃ 50–200 Myr)
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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