Keck Spectra of Brown Dwarf Candidates and a Precise Determi

We have identified twenty-seven candidate very low mass members of the relatively young Alpha Persei open cluster from a six square degree CCD imaging survey. Based on their I magnitudes and the nominal age and distance to the cluster, these objects should

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We have identified twenty-seven candidate very low mass members of the relatively young Alpha Persei open cluster from a six square degree CCD imaging survey. Based on their I magnitudes and the nominal age and distance to the cluster, these objects should

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SpectroscopyofAlphaPerseiStarsa

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AP315

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aKeckSpectraofBrownDwarfCandidatesandaPreciseDeterminationoftheLithiumDepletionBoundaryintheAlphaPerseiOpenCluster1JohnR.Stau er2SmithsonianAstrophysicalObservatory,60GardenSt.,Cambridge,MA02138(stau er@cfa.harvard.edu)DavidBarradoyNavascu´esMax-PlanckInstitutf¨urAstronomie,Heidelberg,D-69117Germany(barrado@mpia-hd.mpg.de)JeromeBouvierLaboratoired’Astrophysique,ObservatoiredeGrenoble,Universit´eJosephFourier,B.P.53,38041GrenobleCedex9,France,bouvier@gag.observ-gr.fr(jerome.bouvier@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr)HeatherL.Morrison3DepartmentofAstronomy,CaseWesternReserveUniversity,Cleveland,OH44106(heather@vegemite.astr.cwru.edu)

We have identified twenty-seven candidate very low mass members of the relatively young Alpha Persei open cluster from a six square degree CCD imaging survey. Based on their I magnitudes and the nominal age and distance to the cluster, these objects should

PaulHarding

StewardObservatory,UniversityofArizona,Tucson,AZ85726(harding@as.arizona.edu)

K.L.Luhman

SmithsonianAstrophysicalObservatory,60GardenSt.,Cambridge,MA02138

(kluhman@cfa.harvard.edu)

ThomasStankeandMarkMcCaughrean

AstrophysikalischesInstitutPotsdam,AnderSternwarte16,D14482PotsdamGermany

(tstanke@aip.de;mjm@aip.de)

DonaldM.Terndrup

AstronomyDept.,OhioStateUniversity,Columbus,OH43210

(terndrup@payne.mps.ohio-state.edu)

LoriAllen2

SmithsonianAstrophysicalObservatory,60GardenSt.,Cambridge,MA02138

(leallen@cfa.harvard.edu)

PatrickAssouad

InternationalSpaceUniversity,Parcd’Innovation,Blvd.Gonthierd’Andernach,67400

Illkirch,France(assouad@mss.isunet.edu)

Received

We have identified twenty-seven candidate very low mass members of the relatively young Alpha Persei open cluster from a six square degree CCD imaging survey. Based on their I magnitudes and the nominal age and distance to the cluster, these objects should

ABSTRACT

Wehaveidenti edtwenty-sevencandidateverylowmassmembersofthe

relativelyyoungAlphaPerseiopenclusterfromasixsquaredegreeCCDimaging

survey.BasedontheirImagnitudesandthenominalageanddistancetothe

cluster,theseobjectsshouldhavemasseslessthan0.1M⊙iftheyarecluster

members.Wehavesubsequentlyobtainedintermediateresolutionspectraof

seventeenoftheseobjectsusingtheKeckIItelescopeandLRISspectrograph.

Wehavealsoobtainednear-IRphotometryformanyofthestars.Ourprimary

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