NPARSEC: NTT Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects. Goals, targets, procedures and first results

Autor: Smart, R. L., Tinney, C. G., Bucciarelli, B., Marocco, F., Abbas, U., Andrei, A., Bernardi, G., Burningham, B., Cardoso, C., Costa, E., Crosta, M. T., Dapra, M., Day-Jones, A., Goldman, B., Jones, H. R. A., Lattanzi, M. G., Leggett, S. K., Lucas, P., Mendez, R., Penna, J. L., Pinfield, D., Smith, L., Sozzetti, A., Vecchiato, A.
Rok vydání: 2013
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt876
Popis: The discovery and subsequent detailed study of T dwarfs has provided many surprises and pushed the physics and modeling of cool atmospheres in unpredicted directions. Distance is a critical parameter for studies of these objects to determine intrinsic luminosities, test binarity and measure their motion in the Galaxy. We describe a new observational program to determine distances across the full range of T dwarf sub-types using the NTT/SOFI telescope/instrument combination. We present preliminary results for ten objects, five of which represent new distances.
Comment: 11 pages, 6 figrues, accepted by MNRAS
Databáze: arXiv