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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 16, 2011
Research, Science and Technology of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets: Proceedings of an International Conference held in Shangai on Occasion of a Total Eclipse of the Sun
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Article Number | 03007 | |
Number of page(s) | 3 | |
Section | Imaging | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111603007 | |
Published online | 18 July 2011 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111603007
Direct imaging and new technologies to search for substellar companions around MGs cool dwarfs
1 Centre for Astrophysics Research, Science and Technology Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
2 Department of Astronomy, Universidad de Chile, Casilla Postal 36D, Santiago, Chile
a e-mail: M.Galvez-Ortiz@herts.ac.uk
We describe here our project based in a search for sub-stellar companions (brown dwarfs and exo-planets) around young ultra-cool dwarfs (UCDs) and characterise their properties. We will use current and future technology (high contrast imaging, high-precision Doppler determinations) from the ground and space (VLT, ELT and JWST), to find companions to young objects. Members of young moving groups (MGs) have clear advantages in this field. We compiled a catalogue of young UCD objects and studied their membership to five known young moving groups: Local Association (Pleiades moving group, 20–150 Myr), Ursa Mayor group (Sirius supercluster, 300 Myr), Hyades supercluster (600 Myr), IC 2391 supercluster (35 Myr) and Castor moving group (200 Myr). To assess them as members we used different kinematic and spectroscopic criteria.
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