Bibcode
DOI
Magazzu, A.; Rebolo, R.; Zapatero Osorio, M. R.; Martin, E. L.; Hodgkin, S. T.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astrophysical Journal Letters v.497, p.L47
Fecha de publicación:
4
1998
Número de citas
21
Número de citas referidas
17
Descripción
We present optical and infrared observations of Roque Praesepe 1 (RPr
1), a faint ( I=21.01 ) and very red object ( I-K=4.57 ) discovered in a
deep CCD survey, covering an area of 800 arcmin2 of the Praesepe open
cluster. A low-resolution spectrum shows that RPr 1 is a very late
object, the latest object in Praesepe for which a spectrum has been
taken to date. Our estimates give a mass between 0.063 and 0.084
Msolar and indicate that RPr 1 may turn out to be the first
brown dwarf in this cluster.