Detection of brown dwarf like objects in the core of NGC3603
Date
2011
Authors
Spezzi, Loredana
Beccari, G.
De Marchi, G.
Young, Erick
Paresce, Francesco
Dopita, Michael
Andersen, Morten
Panagia, Nino
Balick, Bruce
Bond, Howard, E.
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IOP Publishing
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We used near-infrared data obtained with the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope to identify objects having the colors of brown dwarfs (BDs) in the field of the massive galactic cluster NGC3603. These are identified through a combination of
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Keywords: brown dwarfs; instrumentation: photometers; open clusters and associations: individual (NCG 3603); stars: pre-main sequence; techniques: photometric
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Astrophysical Journal, The
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Open Access