The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society (천문학회보)
- Volume 38 Issue 2
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- Pages.65.1-65.1
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- 2013
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- 1226-2692(pISSN)
Identication of L328-IRS as a Proto-Brown Dwarf
- Lee, Chang Won (Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute) ;
- Kim, Mi-Ryang (Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute) ;
- Kim, Gwanjeong (Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute) ;
- Siato, Masao (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) ;
- Myers, Philip C. (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) ;
- Kurono, Yasutaka (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
- Published : 2013.10.08
Abstract
Our understanding of how brown dwarfs form is limited by observational evidence. We report identification of a L328-IRS as a proto-brown dwarf embedded in an isolated dense molecular core. This source exhibits typical properties of a protostar, however, its luminosity (~0.05
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