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Published February 2013 | public
Journal Article

Furthering our knowledge of the solar neighborhood using WISE

Abstract

The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in late 2009 ushered in an new era in the study of the solar neighborhood. Its mid-infrared capabilities have proven critical to the discovery of the bulk of the coolest (T_(eff) <1000 K) brown dwarfs, including the new Y dwarfs, and its all-sky coverage lends itself to searches for high proper motions stars using other infrared surveys such as the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS), and Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) surveys. This splinter session of the 17th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun was organized to bring together researchers working with WISE data to both identify brown dwarfs and characterize their properties.

Additional Information

© 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Received 2012 Aug 14, accepted 2012 Dec 5. Published online 2013 Feb 1. This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology; and the NEOWISE extension of WISE, both funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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