Bibcode
Dupuy, T. J.; Mace, G. N.; Leggett, S. K.; Lodieu, N.; Gomes, J. I.; Gizis, J. E.; Wright, E. L.; Gelino, C. R.; Kirkpatrick, J. D.; Cushing, M. C.
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Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.334, Issue 1-2, p.97
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The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in late
2009 ushered in an new era in the study of the solar neighborhood. Its
mid-infrared capabilities have proven critical to the discovery of the
bulk of the coolest (\teff < 1000 K) brown dwarfs, including the new
Y dwarfs, and its all-sky coverage lends itself to searches for high
proper motions stars using other infrared surveys such as the Two Micron
All Sky Survey (2MASS), UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS), and
Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) surveys.
This splinter session of the 17th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars,
Stellar Systems and the Sun was organized to bring together researchers
working with WISE data to both identify brown dwarfs and characterize
their properties.
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Our goal is to study the processes that lead to the formation of low mass stars, brown dwarfs and planets and to characterize the physical properties of these objects in various evolutionary stages. Low mass stars and brown dwarfs are likely the most numerous type of objects in our Galaxy but due to their low intrinsic luminosity they are not so
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