Hunting for Cool Brown Dwarfs with WISE
Event Start:
2018-11-26T15:00:00
Event End:
2018-11-26T16:00:00
Event Information:
ABSTRACT: The study of brown dwarfs with effective temperatures less than 500 K can offer important insights into the complex physics of ultracool atmospheres, the shape of the initial mass function, and the low-mass limit of star formation. We have been using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to search for just such a population of brown dwarfs and have identified roughly twenty cool browns dwarfs that populate a new spectral class, dubbed 'Y'.
Event Location:
Hennings 318
Speaker:
Michael Cushing (University of Toledo)
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Event Start:
2018-11-26T15:00:00
Event End:
2018-11-26T16:00:00
Hunting for Cool Brown Dwarfs with WISE
Event Information:
ABSTRACT: The study of brown dwarfs with effective temperatures less than 500 K can offer important insights into the complex physics of ultracool atmospheres, the shape of the initial mass function, and the low-mass limit of star formation. We have been using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to search for just such a population of brown dwarfs and have identified roughly twenty cool browns dwarfs that populate a new spectral class, dubbed 'Y'.
Event Location:
Hennings 318