The SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) project aims to detect temperate terrestrial planets transiting nearby ultracool dwarfs, including late M-dwarf stars and brown dwarfs, which are well-suited […]
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Discovery Of 118 New Ultracool Dwarf Candidates Using Machine Learning Techniques
We present the discovery of 118 new ultracool dwarf candidates, discovered using a new machine learning tool, named SMDET, applied to time series images from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
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89 New Ultracool Dwarf Co-Moving Companions Identified With The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
We report the identification of 89 new systems containing ultracool dwarf companions to main sequence stars and white dwarfs, using the citizen science project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 and cross-reference […]