Brown dwarfs in open clusters

This thesis presents the results of the work undertaken during the course of this PhD.;Firstly, the results of a large, deep survey of 5.65 square degrees of the Taurus Dark Clouds are presented. Using a combination of three colour-magnitude diagrams, 165 brown dwarf candidates are identified from R...

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Main Author: Osborne, Samantha Louise
Published: University of Leicester 2005
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431976