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A Deep Proper Motion Survey of the Pleiades for Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs

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Digitised Optical Sky Surveys

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The nature of the Very Low Mass (VLM) main sequence remains a fascinating but elusive topic, despite the many searches and surveys for faint red stars. Here we will follow the usual definitions of objects of mass m in the range 0.3 > m > 0.08 solar masses being called very low mass, and those with m < 0.08M⊙ being labelled brown dwarfs (BDs). Theoretical stellar models predict that objects having m < 0.08M⊙ will be unable to support stable hydrogen fusion reactions in their cores — such stars become degenerate cooling brown dwarfs.

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  1. Department of Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

    N. C. Hambly

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Hambly, N.C. (1992). A Deep Proper Motion Survey of the Pleiades for Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs. In: MacGillivray, H.T., Thomson, E.B. (eds) Digitised Optical Sky Surveys. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 174. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2472-0_34

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