PP[CLC]l[/CLC] 15: The First Brown Dwarf Spectroscopic Binary
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5 v 1 2 A ug 1 99 9 Submitted to AJ PPl 15 : The First Brown Dwarf Spectroscopic Binary
PPl 15 is the first object to have been confirmed as a brown dwarf by the lithium test (in 1995), though its inferred mass was very close to the substellar limit. It is a member of the Pleiades open cluster. Its position in a cluster color-magnitude diagram suggested that it might be binary, and preliminary indications that it is a double-lined spectroscopic binary were reported by us in 1997. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astronomical Journal
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0004-6256
DOI: 10.1086/301079