New brown dwarfs in upper Sco

DOI

This paper presents the results of a search for brown dwarfs in the Upper Scorpius Association using data from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Galactic Cluster Survey. Candidate young brown dwarfs were first chosen by their position in colour magnitude diagrams with further selection based on proper motions to ensure Upper Scorpius membership. Proper motions were derived by comparing UKIDSS and Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) data. Using that method we identify 19 new brown dwarfs in the southern part of the association. In addition there are up to eight likely members with slightly higher dispersion velocity. The ratio of brown dwarfs to stars was found to be consistent with other areas in Upper Scorpius. It was also found to be similar to other results from young clusters with OB associations, and lower than those without, suggesting the brown dwarf formation rate may be a function of environment.

Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/418/1231/BD (Data for the brown dwarfs of Fig.3 and 4 plus the object too faint to be recorded in 2MASS)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.74181231
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/418/1231
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/418/1231
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/418/1231
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/418/1231
Provenance
Creator Dawson P.; Scholz A.; Ray T.P.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2012
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy