Gaia and brown dwarfs from Spain
Author:
Caballero
Abstract:
Gaia will not observe 50000 brown dwarfs, but about 100 times less. However, these less than approximately 500 brown dwarfs will be benchmarks for many substellar topics. It is possible to identify them in advance and make the list public to all astronomers worldwide through a virtual observatory-compliant "Gaia brown dwarf" catalogue. This M-, L- and T-dwarf Archive of Interest for Astrophysics would tabulate precise Gaia astrometry, multiband photometry, high- and low-resolution spectroscopy and homogeneously derived astrophysical parameters. Spanish observatories may play a key role in the catalogue preparation.
Sunday, August 31, 2014
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