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dc.contributor.authorPearson, Samuel
dc.contributor.authorScholz, Aleks
dc.contributor.authorTeixeira, Paula S
dc.contributor.authorMužić, Koraljka
dc.contributor.authorAlmendros-Abad, Víctor
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-24T11:30:03Z
dc.date.available2021-09-24T11:30:03Z
dc.date.issued2021-11
dc.identifier.citationPearson , S , Scholz , A , Teixeira , P S , Mužić , K & Almendros-Abad , V 2021 , ' The first spectroscopically confirmed brown dwarfs in NGC 2264 ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 507 , no. 3 , pp. 4074–4085 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2394en
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 275628998
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: daa8dce6-9064-48b4-aef8-be45bbe84d48
dc.identifier.otherBibtex: 10.1093/mnras/stab2394
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-3665-5784/work/100549756
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85117198077
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000708848000065
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/24020
dc.descriptionSupport from STFC through grant number ST/R000824/1. K.M. acknowledges funding by the Science and Technology Foundation of Portugal (FCT), grants No. IF/00194/2015, PTDC/FISAST/28731/2017 and UIDB/00099/2020.en
dc.description.abstractWe present spectroscopic follow-up observations of 68 red, faint candidates from our multi-epoch, multi-wavelength, previously published survey of NGC 2264. Using near-infrared spectra from VLT/KMOS, we measure spectral types and extinction for 32 young low-mass sources. We confirm 13 as brown dwarfs in NGC 2264, with spectral types between M6 and M8, corresponding to masses between 0.02 and 0.08 M⊙. These are the first spectroscopically confirmed brown dwarfs in this benchmark cluster. 19 more objects are found to be young M-type stars of NGC 2264 with masses of 0.08 to 0.3 M⊙. 7 of the confirmed brown dwarfs as well as 15 of the M-stars have IR excess caused by a disc. Comparing with isochrones, the typical age of the confirmed brown dwarfs is <0.5 to 5 Myr. More than half of the newly identified brown dwarfs and very low mass stars have ages <0.5 Myr, significantly younger than the bulk of the known cluster population. Based on the success rate of our spectroscopic follow-up, we estimate that NGC 2264 hosts 200-600 brown dwarfs in total (in the given mass range). This would correspond to a star-to-brown dwarf ratio between 2.5:1 and 7.5:1. We determine the slope of the substellar mass function as α=0.43+0.41−0.56⁠, these values are consistent with those measured for other young clusters. This points to a uniform substellar mass function across all star forming environments.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyen
dc.rightsCopyright © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.subjectBrown dwardfsen
dc.subjectStars: low-massen
dc.subjectCataloguesen
dc.subjectSurveysen
dc.subjectQB Astronomyen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQBen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titleThe first spectroscopically confirmed brown dwarfs in NGC 2264en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorScience & Technology Facilities Councilen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Scienceen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2394
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberST/R00824/1en


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