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2002A&A...395..813B - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 395, 813-821 (2002/12-1)

A substellar mass function for Alpha Persei.

BARRADO Y NAVASCUES D., BOUVIER J., STAUFFER J.R., LODIEU N. and McCAUGHREAN M.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a deep, wide-field optical survey of the young stellar cluster Alpha Per, in which we have discovered a large population of candidate brown dwarfs. Subsequent infrared photometric follow-up shows that the majority of them are probable or possible members of the cluster, reaching to a minimum mass of 0.035M☉. We have used this list of members to derive the luminosity and mass functions of the substellar population of the cluster (α=0.59±0.05, when expressed in the mass spectrum form φ∝M–α) and compared its slope to the value measure for the Pleiades. This comparison indicates that the two cluster mass functions are, indeed, very similar.

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Journal keyword(s): open clusters and associations: individual: Alpha Per - stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs - stars: luminosity, mass functions

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/A+A/395/813): table3.dat>

Nomenclature: Table 3: Cl* Melotte 20 AP NNN (Nos 327-412) added.

Simbad objects: 121

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