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Title

The bottom of the main sequence--and beyond : proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 10-12 August 1994 / Christopher G. Tinney, ed.

Author

ESO Workshop (1994 : Garching bei München, Germany)

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Tinney, Christopher G., 1964-

Description

xv, 309 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

ESO astrophysics symposia

Uniform Title

ESO astrophysics symposia.

Subject

• Cool stars > Congresses
• Brown dwarf stars > Congresses
• Stars > Masses > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The Quiet Lives of Very Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs / D. Saumon, A. Burrows and W. B. Hubbard -- Luminosity Functions and the Mass Function / F. D'Antona -- The Evolution of Low-Mass Stars / I. Baraffe and G. Chabrier -- The Equation of State for the Interiors of Low-Mass Objects / W. Stolzmann and T. Blocker -- M (sub) Dwarf Model Atmospheres: The Next Generation / F. Allard and P. H. Hauschildt -- Spectra and Colours of Brown Dwarfs / T. Tsuji, K. Ohnaka and W. Aoki -- Photometric and Astrometric Surveys for Low-Mass Field Stars / N. Reid -- VLM Stars Toward the Barnard 5 Molecular Cloud / T. H. Jarrett -- Brown Dwarf Candidates from Digitally Stacked Schmidt Plates / H. R. A. Jones and M. R. S. Hawkins -- How Complete is Our Knowledge of the Nearby Stars? / H. Jahreiss -- A Photographic Survey of the Southern Sky / A. D. Thackrah -- The Solar Neighbors in the Murky Depths of the Main Sequence / T. J. Henry --
• A Search for Infrared Companions to White Dwarfs / A. G. Gemmo -- Two Faint Companions to the Nearby M-dwarf LHS1070 / Ch. Leinert, A. Richichi, N. Weitzel, A. Glindemann, A. Eckart and L. E. Tacconi-Garman -- Sub-arcsecond Imaging of G29-38 Using Adaptive Optics / J.-L. Beuzit, J.-M. Mariotti, A. Duquennoy, A. Eckart and C. Perrier -- Brown Dwarfs and Planets Around Solar-type Stars: Searches by Precise Velocities / G. W. Marcy and R. P. Butler -- SHARP Images of the Pre-main Sequence Star V536 Aquilae: A Binary with a Low-Mass Companion / J.-L. Monin, F. Menard, N. Ageorges and A. Eckart -- Exploration of the Lower Main Sequence Among Wide Binaries / J. A. Smith and T. D. Oswalt -- The Temperature Scale for Cool Dwarfs / M. S. Bessell -- Parallaxes and Absolute Magnitudes for VLM Stars / C. G. Tinney -- Southern Stars Near the Substellar Boundary: An Update / P. A. Ianna -- Classification Spectroscopy of M Dwarfs from 0.6 to 2.4 Microns / J. D. Kirkpatrick --
• The Design of the Low-Mass Binaries Database / D. A. Shpil'kina and O. Yu. Malkov -- The Mass-Luminosity Relation for M-dwarfs / O. Yu. Malkov, A. E. Piskunov and D. A. Shpil'kina -- Lithium and the Nature of Brown Dwarf Candidates / R. Rebolo, A. Magazzu and E. L. Martin -- Star Formation and the Initial Mass Function / F. C. Adams -- Surveys of Nearby Clusters for Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs / R. F. Jameson -- The VLM Main Sequence in Praesepe / N. C. Hambly, I. A. Steele, M. R. S. Hawkins and R. F. Jameson -- Near-infrared Observations of Low-Mass Objects in NGC 2024 / F. Comeron and G. H. Rieke -- HST Photometry of Low-Mass Stars in Open Clusters / T. von Hippel, G. Gilmore and D. H. P. Jones -- Spectroscopy of M Type Stars in the [alpha] Persei Open Cluster / M. R. Zapatero Osorio, R. Rebolo, E. L. Martin and R. J. Garcia Lopez -- Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in the Trapezium Cluster / M. McCaughrean, H. Zinnecker, J. Rayner and J. Stauffer --
• Surface Activity and Rotation in Low-Mass Stars / J. Liebert -- The Frequency of Magnetic Activity in Field M Dwarfs / S. L. Hawley -- Chromospheric and Coronal Activity of Low-Mass Stars in the Pleiades / S. T. Hodgkin, I. A. Steele and R. F. Jameson -- Moderate Resolution Spectroscopy of VLM and BD-Candidate Members of the Pleiades and Hyades / J. R. Stauffer -- The Pop. II Lower Main Sequence: Some Properties and a Luminosity Function Determination / C. C. Dahn, J. Liebert, H. C. Harris and H. H. Guetter -- Low-Mass Objects and the Dark Matter in the Halo / G. Chabrier, D. Mera and R. Schaeffer -- Faint Companions to G/K Halo Subdwarfs / E. L. Martin, R. Rebolo and M. R. Zapatero Osorio -- On the Pop. II IMF: Many More Brown Dwarfs? / H. Zinnecker -- Unveiling the IMF of Galactic Globular Clusters: the Case of NGC 1261 / M. Zoccali, G. Piotto, S. R. Zaggia and M. Capaccioli -- A Review of Gravitational Microlensing Experiments / E. Aubourg --
• VLM Stars and Brown Dwarfs from 2MASS and DENIS / T. Chester -- Searching for Low-Mass Stars with DENIS. Preliminary Results on a Star Forming Region: Orion / E. Copet, B. de Batz, N. Epchtein, P. Fouque, F. Lacombe, D. Rouan, D. Tiphene, J. Borsenberger, T. Le Bertre and S. Kimeswenger -- Brown Dwarfs in the ISO Central Programme / C. J. Cesarsky and Mark M. Casali -- Summary Remarks: Hitting Bottom? / V. Trimble.

ISBN

3540591710 (Berlin : acid-free paper)

LCCN

95015642

OCLC

• 32391002
• ocm32391002

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries