MEMBERS AT THE IAC
R. Rebolo (Principal investigator), V. J. S. Béjar
COLLABORATORS
M. R. Zapatero Osorio (CalTech), J. Licandro (TNG), E. L. Martín (IfA), X. Delfosse (Obs. Grenoble), G. Basri (Univ. Berkeley), R. Jameson (Leicester University), F. D'Antona (Obs. de Roma), A. Magazzù (Obs. de Catania, TNG), D. Barrado y Navascués (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid), R. Mundt (Max Planck Heidelberg), C. Bailer-Jones (Max Planck Heidelberg), Y. Pavlenko (Main Observatory at Ukraine), T. Forveille (Obs. Grenoble), J. Montalbán.
THIS PAGE ...
This page provides an overview of the most relevant results chronologically ordered and facilitates links to the corresponding published papers. A complete list of publications is given here, and (color) figures and images are available here.
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SEARCHES IN STELLAR CLUSTERS 
ORION
Discovery of a population of young, free-floating planetary mass objects (5-15 Jupiter mass) in the sigma Orionis star cluster (Oct 2000, Science, 290, 103 - Full text (toll free) available through the web page of publications.)
SOri 47: An L-type 0.015 Msun substellar object in Orion. Reaching the mass boundary between Brown Dwarfs and Giant Planets (Oct 1999, ApJ, 524, L115)
The substellar population around the sigma Orionis multiple star (Aug 1999, ApJ, 521, 671)
PLEIADES
Our IZ survey in the central 1 square degree in the cluster (Jan 1999, A&AS, 134, 537)
Roque 25: The first L-type 0.035 Msun Pleiades Brown Dwarf (Nov 1998, ApJ, 507, L41)
Teide 2 and the age of the Pleiades (May 1998, ApJ, 499, L61)
New Brown Dwarfs at the end of the M-type sequence in the cluster (Dec 1997, ApJ, 491, L81)
Detection of Lithium in 0.055 Msun Pleiades Brown Dwarfs: Teide 1 and Calar 3 (Sep 1996, ApJ, 469, L53)
BROWN DWARFS EXIST: The discovery of Teide 1 (Sep 1995, Nature, 377, 129)
PRAESEPE
RPr 1: A likely Brown Dwarf in Praesepe (Mar 1998, ApJ, 497, L47)
COMA BERENICES
Optical photometric and spectroscopic follow-up of ROSAT discovered low mass candidate members of the open cluster Coma Berenices: finding of a contact binary of the W-UMa type (Oct 2000, accepted for publication in A&A)
SEARCHES AROUND NEARBY STARS
Discovery of L-dwarfs and brown dwarfs using EROS and DENIS (Nov 1999, A&A, 351, L5)
G196-3B: Direct imaging of a 25 Mjup Brown Dwarf (Nov 1998, Science, 282, 1309)
LARGE-SCALE IR SURVEYS (DENIS)
Toward a classification of the coolest field dwarfs: the L-type (Nov 1999, AJ, 118, 2466)
ROTATIONAL PERIODS
The rotation period of a 0.09 solar mass star in alpha Persei (Mar 1997, MNRAS, 286, L17)
SPECTRAL SYNTHESIS AND EVOLUTIONARY MODELS
An Effective Temperature Scale for Late M and L Dwarfs, from Resonance Absorption Lines of CsI and RbI (Mar 2000, ApJ, 538, 363)
On the interpretation of the optical spectra of L-type dwarfs (Jan 2000, A&A, 355, 245)
MASS-LUMINOSITY RELATION OF VERY LOW MASS STARS
Revealing the observed mass-luminosity relationship for very low mass stars (Nov 1999, A&A, 351, 619)
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