http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2650
Due to magnitude limits, the Gaia survey will not delve as deeply into the local population of brown dwarfs as it will other stellar populations. While hundreds or thousands of brown dwarfs will be measured by Gaia, we propose a different, indirect method wherein studies using Gaia data will help teach us about brown dwarfs: Identifying moving groups that contain brown dwarfs. This use of Gaia data will directly help attempts to disentangle the effects of age and mass on brown dwarf spectra, which opens the possibilities for determining empirical constraints on brown dwarf evolution.
A. Riedel
Wed, 11 Jun 14
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Comments: 5 pages, 6 figures. From the proceedings of “Gaia and the Unseen: The Brown Dwarf Question”, a GREAT-ESF workshop due to be published in the Memorie della Societa’ Astronomica Italiana
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