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2006MNRAS.368.1451L - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 368, 1451-1455 (2006/May-3)

A deep photometric survey of the η Chamaeleontis cluster down to the brown dwarf - planet boundary.

LYO A.-R., SONG I., LAWSON W.A., BESSELL M.S. and ZUCKERMAN B.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the outcome of the deep optical/infrared photometric survey of the central region (33x33 arcmin2 or 0.9 pc2) of the η Chamaeleontis (η Cha) pre-main sequence star cluster. The completeness limits of the photometry are I = 19.1, J = 18.2 and H = 17.6, faint enough to reveal low-mass members down to the brown dwarf and planet boundary of ~13 MJup. We found no such low-mass members in this region. Our result combined with a previous shallower (I = 17) but larger area survey indicates that low-mass objects (0.013 < M/M< 0.075) were either not created in the η Cha cluster or lost due to the early dynamical history of the cluster and ejected to outside the surveyed areas.

Abstract Copyright: 2006 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2006 RAS

Journal keyword(s): stars: fundamental parameters - stars: pre-main-sequence - open clusters and associations: individual: η Chamaeleontis

Simbad objects: 10

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