Probing the substellar regime with SIRTF

Eduardo L. Martín; Wolfgang Brandner; David C. Jewitt; Theodore Simon; Richard Wainscoat; Mike Connelley; Mark Marley; Christopher Gelino

doi:10.1086/320285

Probing the substellar regime with SIRTF

Eduardo L. Martín, Wolfgang Brandner, David C. Jewitt, Theodore Simon, Richard Wainscoat, Mike Connelley, Mark Marley, Christopher Gelino

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One of the main scientific drivers of the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is the search for brown dwarfs and extrasolar superplanets. We present new calculations of the spectra of substellar objects and a prediction of their colors in the SIRTF passbands. We discuss observational strategies for identification of very low mass objects as free-floaters in the solar vicinity and provide estimates of their densities as a function of sensitivity and the mass function.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	529-536
Number of pages	8
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Volume	113
Issue number	783
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/320285
State	Published - May 2001
Externally published	Yes

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