Cool carbon stars in the halo: new very red or distant objects (2007)
Mauron, N., Gigoyan, K. S., Kendall, T. R.
The goal of this paper is to present and analyse a new sample of cool carbon (C)stars located in the halo. Twenty three new C stars were discovered. Spectra are typical of N-type stars with C2 and CN...
Two T dwarfs from the UKIDSS Early Data Release (2007)
Kendall, T. R., Tamura, M., Tinney, C. G., Martin, E. L., Ishii, M., Pinfield, D. J., ...
We report on the first ultracool dwarf discoveries from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey Early Data Release (LAS EDR), in particular the discovery of T dwarfs which are...
New nearby, bright southern ultracool dwarfs. (2007)
Kendall, T.R., Jones, H.R.A., Pinfield, D.J., Pokorny, R.S., Folkes, S.L., Weights, D., ...
The UKIRT infrared deep sky survey first data release. (2007)
Warren, S.J., Hambly, N.C., Dye, S., Almaini, O., Cross, N.J.G., Edge, A.C., ...
Two T dwarfs from the UKIDDS early data release. (2007)
Kendall, T.R., Tamura, M., Tinney, C.G., Martin, E., Ishii, M., Pinfield, D.J., ...
Discovery of the First Very Wide WD LD Binary System (2007)
Day-Jones, A.C., Pinfield, D.J., Jones, H.R.A., Kendall, T.R., Napiwotzki, R., Jenkins, J.S.
Discovery of a nearby L-T transition object in the Southern Galactic plane. (2007)
Folkes, S.L., Pinfield, D.J., Kendall, T.R., Jones, H.R.A.
" The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com " Copyright Blackwell Publishing / Royal Astronomical Society. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11789.x
The UKIRT infrared deep sky survey early data release (2006)
Dye, S., Warren, S.J., Hambly, N.C., Cross, N.J.G., Hodgkin, S.T., Irwin, M.J., ...
This paper defines the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Early Data Release (EDR). UKIDSS is a set of five large near-infrared surveys being undertaken with the United Kingdom Infrared...
The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey First Data Release (2006)
Warren, S. J., Hambly, N. C., Dye, S., Almaini, O., Cross, N. J. G., Edge, A. C., ...
The First Data Release (DR1) of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) took place on 2006 July 21. UKIDSS is a set of five large near-infrared surveys, covering a complementary range of areas,...
New brown dwarfs in Upper Sco using UKIDSS Galactic Cluster Survey science verification data (2006)
Lodieu, N., Hambly, N. C., Jameson, R. F., Hodgkin, S. T., Carraro, G., Kendall, T. R.
We present first results from a deep (J = 18.7), wide-field (6.5 square degrees) infrared (ZYJHK) survey in the Upper Sco association conducted within the science verification phase of the UKIRT...
New, nearby bright southern ultracool dwarfs (2006)
Kendall, T. R., Jones, H. R. A., Pinfield, D. J., Pokorny, R. S., Folkes, S., Weights, D., ...
We report the discovery of twenty-one hitherto unknown bright southern ultracool dwarfs with spectral types in the range M7 to L5.5, together with new observations of a further three late M dwarfs...
Cool carbon stars in the halo: a new survey based on 2MASS (2006)
Mauron, N., Azzopardi, M., Gigoyan, K., Kendall, T. R.
We present the first results of a new survey for finding cool N-type carbon (C) stars in the halo of the Galaxy. Candidates were first selected in the 2MASS Second Incremental Release database with...
Finding benchmark brown dwarfs to probe the IMF as a function of time (2006)
Pinfield, D. J., Jones, H. R. A., Lucas, P. W., Kendall, T. R., Folkes, S. L., Day-Jones, A. C., ...
Using a simulated disk brown dwarf (BD) population, we find that new large area infrared surveys are expected to identify enough BDs covering wide enough mass--age ranges to potentially measure the...
Finding benchmark brown dwarfs to probe the sub-stellar IMF as a function of time (2006)
Pinfield, D.J., Jones, H.R.A., Lucas, R.A., Kendall, T.R., Folkes, S.L., Day-Jones, A.C., ...
Exploring the Lower Mass Function in the young open Cluster IC 4665 (2005)
De Wit, W. J., Bouvier, J., Palla, F., James, D. J., Kendall, T. R., ...
We present a study of the young (30-100Myr) open cluster IC 4665 with the aim to determine the shape of the mass function well into the brown dwarf regime. We photometrically select 691 low-mass...
Cool carbon stars in the halo II. A study of 25 new objects (2005)
Mauron, N., Kendall, T. R., Gigoyan, K.
We present new results from an ongoing survey of carbon-rich asymptotic giant (AGB) stars in the halo of our Galaxy. After selecting candidates primarily through their 2MASS colours, slit...
A deep, wide-field search for substellar members in NGC 2264 (2005)
Kendall, T. R., Bouvier, J., Moraux, E., James, D. J., Menard, F.
We report the first results of our ongoing campaign to discover the first brown dwarfs (BD) in NGC 2264, a young (3 Myr), populous star forming region for which our optical studies have revealed a...
We present the results of an optical absorption study of NGC 7293, the Helix planetary nebula (PN), designed to search for diffuse band (DIB) absorptions perhaps arising in the carbon-rich...
Discovery of very nearby ultracool dwarfs from DENIS (2004)
Kendall, T. R., Delfosse, X., Martin, E. L., Forveille, T.
We report new spectroscopic results, obtained with UKIRT/CGS4, of a sample of 14 candidate ultracool dwarfs selected from the DENIS (Deep Near-Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky) database. A further...
Cool carbon stars in the halo: a new survey based on 2MASS (2004)
Mauron, N., Azzopardi, M., Gigoyan, K., Kendall, T. R.
We present the first results of a new survey for finding cool N-type carbon (C) stars in the halo of the Galaxy. Candidates were first selected in the 2MASS Second Incremental Release database with...
Cool carbon stars in the halo: a new survey based on 2MASS (2004)
Mauron, N., Azzopardi, M., Gigoyan, K., Kendall, T. R.
We present the first results of a new survey for finding cool N-type carbon (C) stars in the halo of the Galaxy. Candidates were first selected in the 2MASS Second Incremental Release database with...
Cool carbon stars in the halo: a new survey based on 2MASS (2004)
Mauron, N., Azzopardi, M., Gigoyan, K., Kendall, T. R.
We present the first results of a new survey for finding cool N-type carbon (C) stars in the halo of the Galaxy. Candidates were first selected in the 2MASS Second Incremental Release database with...
VLT/ISAAC H-band spectroscopy of embedded massive YSOs (2003)
Kendall, T. R., De Wit, W. J., Yun, J. L.
We have performed intermediate resolution (R = 5000), high signal-to-noise H-band spectroscopy of a small, initial sample of three massive embedded young stellar objects (YSOs), using VLT/ISAAC. The...
Serendipitous discovery of seven new southern L-dwarfs (2003)
Kendall, T. R., Mauron, N., Azzopardi, M., Gigoyan, K.
We report the discovery of seven hitherto unknown L-dwarfs found as a result of a spectroscopic search for distant AGB stars. Their far-red and near-infrared colours are very similar to known dwarfs...
TeV gamma rays from PSR 1706-44 (1998)
Chadwick, P. M., Dickinson, M. R., Dipper, N. A., Holder, J., Kendall, T. R., McComb, T. J. L., ...
Observations made with the University of Durham Mark 6 atmospheric Cerenkov telescope confirm that PSR B1706-44 is a very high energy gamma-ray emitter. There is no indication from our dataset that...
The Uuniversity of Durham Mark 6 Gamma Ray Telescope (1998)
Armstrong, P., Chadwick, P. M., Cottle, P. J., Dickinson, J. E., Dickinson, M. R., Dipper, N. A., ...
The design, construction and operation of the University of Durham ground-based gamma ray telescope is discussed. The telescope has been designed to detect gamma rays in the < 200 GeV region and to...
Centaurus X-3 - A Source of High Energy Gamma Rays (1998)
Chadwick, P. M., Dickinson, M. R., Dipper, N. A., Kendall, T. R., McComb, T. J. L., Orford, K. J., ...
Centaurus X-3 is a well-studied high-mass accreting X-ray binary and a variable source of high energy gamma rays with energies from 100 MeV to 1 TeV. Previous results have suggested that the origin...