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Paper: A New Population of Young Brown Dwarfs
Volume: 384, 14th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun
Page: 119
Authors: Cruz, K.L.; Kirkpatrick, J.D.; Burgasser, A.; Looper, D.; Mohanty, S.; Prato, L.; Faherty, J.; Solomon, A.
Abstract: We report the discovery of a population of late-M and L field dwarfs with unusual optical and near-infrared spectral features that we attribute to low gravity—likely uncommonly young, low-mass brown dwarfs. Many of these new-found young objects have southerly declinations and distance estimates within 60 parsecs. Intriguingly, these are the same properties of recently discovered, nearby, intermediate-age (5–50 Myr), loose associations such as Tucana/Horologium, the TWHya association, and the Beta Pictoris moving group. We describe our efforts to confirm cluster membership and to further investigate this possible new young population of brown dwarfs.
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