WISE, a mission that will find ALL the neighbours |
WISE, a mission that will find ALL the neighbours |
Aug 27 2009, 08:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
I'm used to reading excellent articles by Emily, but this one I found to be of truly extraordinary interest:
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002070/ |
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Nov 29 2009, 04:03 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 87 Joined: 9-November 07 Member No.: 3958 |
If the IR broadband signature for brown dwarfs really is distinctive enough, candidates can be followed up with large ground-based telescopes once WISE points them out. That would give much higher angular resolution as well as time baseline. One of the bumper-sticker descriptions of WISE (back when it was NGSS, which someone thought would be too confusing compared to NGST which is now JWST) was that it should discover both the most luminous galaxies and our nearest stellar neighbors; practically something for everybody.
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