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Ultracool Dwarfs

New Spectral Types L and T

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2001

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  1. Hugh R. A. Jones

    1. Astrophysics Research Institute, Birkenhead, UK

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  2. Iain A. Steele

    1. Astrophysics Research Institute, Birkenhead, UK

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Spectral Classification

    1. L-Band Photometry and Spectroscopy of L and T Dwarfs: Exploring Infrared Spectral Typing

      • D. C. Stephens, M. S. Marley, K. S. Noll
      Pages 183-193

  2. Back Matter

    Pages 195-195
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About this book

Once you have looked at the night sky on a moonless night it is not hard to realise why so much of our science and religion has its roots in the stars. Yet it took until 1850 to realise that fainter stars were not necessarily further away, nor the brighter ones closer. In fact within the magnitude range observable to the naked eye it is probable that the brighter star is in fact further away. Even today the measurement of stellar distances is relatively difficult and is gener­ ally only done using dedicated telescopes. In the early years of the 20th century Hertzsprung and Russell developed a powerful classification diagram which al­ lows stars to be distinguished using a plot of their colour versus magnitude. The construction of this diagram involved the use of spectroscopy which has become the cornerstone of modern astronomy. As telescopes become more powerful, de­ tectors more sensitive and more physics is added to astrophysics, astronomical spectroscopy becomes a more powerful tool. The concern of this book is the spectral classification of stars. With a single spectrum of a star it is possible to uniquely classify an object and find its place on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. This spectrum is thus equivalent to having the colour and the magnitude of the object which can in turn be related to mass and other quantities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Astrophysics Research Institute, Birkenhead, UK

    Hugh R. A. Jones, Iain A. Steele

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ultracool Dwarfs

  • Book Subtitle: New Spectral Types L and T

  • Editors: Hugh R. A. Jones, Iain A. Steele

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56672-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-42353-9Published: 11 September 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-62682-1Published: 07 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-56672-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 197

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles

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