POSTER PAPER 2.02

First Results of a Search for Brown Dwarfs in Taurus
A. Magazzu, E. L. Martin, C. Dougados, E. Magnier, F. Menard, J. -C. Cuillandre, X. Delfosse

Institute: Centro Galileo Galilei
Institute: Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania
Institute: Institute of Astronomy. University of Hawaii at Manoa
Institute: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation
Institute: Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
Contact Email: magazzu@tng.iac.es

Abstract: We present the first results of a new effort to search for brown dwarfs in Taurus star formation region. We obtained optical spectroscopy at the William Herschel Telescope in La Palma for 30 candidates, taken from a subset of a survey performed at CFHT. Four object showed very late spectral types, resulting VLM stars with high Taurus membership probability.

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Manuscript submitted: 2001-Sep-06
"The Future of Cool-Star Astrophysics", 2003, Eds. A. Brown, G. M. Harper, & T. R. Ayres. Proceedings of 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, & The Sun,
© 2003 University of Colorado.