JHK photometry of brown dwarfs in Orion Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Lucas P.W.
  2. Roche P.F.
  3. Tamura M.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We report the results of a deep near-infrared (JHK) survey of the outer parts of the Trapezium Cluster with Gemini South/Flamingos. 396 sources were detected in a 26-arcmin^2^ area, including 138 brown dwarf candidates, defined as M<0.075M_{sun}_ for an assumed age of 1Myr. Only 33 of the brown dwarf candidates are planetary mass candidates with estimated masses in the range 0.003<M<0.012M_{sun}_. In an extinction-limited sample (AV<5) complete to approximately 0.005M_{sun}_ (5M_Jup_) the mass function appears to drop by a factor of 2 at the deuterium burning threshold, i.e. at planetary masses. After allowing for background contamination it is likely that planetary mass objects at 3-13M_Jup_ number <10% of the cluster population, with an upper limit of 13%. Analysis of the spatial distribution of stars and brown dwarf candidates suggests that brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars (M<0.1M_{sun}_) are less likely than more massive stars to have wide (>150AU) binary companions.

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. open-star-clusters
  3. pre-main-sequence-stars
  4. dwarf-stars
  5. infrared-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2005MNRAS.361..211L
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.73610211

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